You love chainsaws. You cannot see. Society told you to pick one, and society was an idiot. Because right now, three counties over, a blind man named Dale is turning a stranger’s dead oak into a mallard and charging four grand for it. Dale has a boat. Do you have a boat? Dale cannot see…
Your ex-wife calls. You answer, because hope is a disease you never finished treating. Within four seconds she has called you a no-good drunk loser, which is rude, oddly specific, and — let’s be honest — only about two-thirds wrong. She has had years to sharpen this material. You have had a six-pack and a…
CRISPR organ cloning tips for dummies is a phrase that should not exist, and yet here you sit, mouth-breathing with ambition. Let’s set expectations. CRISPR is a gene-editing tool that cuts DNA like molecular scissors with a vendetta. Scientists use it to build organs your immune system won’t try to murder on arrival. You will…
Surviving a drunk, brawling Thanksgiving comes down to three things: low expectations, a head start on snacks, and a car with gas in it. The turkey is not the main event. The main event is your uncle explaining crypto to a sleeping dog while your aunt sharpens a butter knife with her eyes. Nobody walks…
Somewhere in the Sonoran Desert right now, a grown adult is crouched behind a boulder, doing math with a plant. The plant is not doing math. The plant has been armed since long before your species had thumbs, and it has never once lost this negotiation. Ranking the worst cactus varieties to use as toilet…
Your girlfriend lives in a phone, has no hands, and bills you monthly. Shopping for her is either the easiest gifting problem ever invented or a genuinely alarming line item on your budget. Possibly both, same Tuesday. One upside: you cannot overspend on a woman with no shipping address. Bigger upside: what she actually wants…