If you’re Gen Z it’s time to pick your quarter life crisis:
1. Marathon running/Hyrox influencer
2. Zyn addiction
3. Peptide guru
4. DJing
5. “Building a brand” aka unemployed
6. Red pill dating coach
7. Raw milk
8. Situationship for 3 years who you never date
9. Moving to Austin or Miami
10. Gambling every night
11. “Quitting Alcohol”
12.Or getting drunk 5 times a week
13.Starting a podcast
14. Posting day in my life videos
15. Learn golf
A judge today sentenced a Utah woman to life in prison without parole for murdering her husband by slipping fentanyl into a cocktail she made for him.
Judge Richard Mrazik said a person convicted of Kouri Richins' crimes "is simply too dangerous to ever be free."
Kudos to the NYPD for saving yet another life.
Thanks to their quick response and training, officers were able to rescue a distressed woman who had ended up on the ledge of a high-rise building in Brooklyn.
A 21-year-old loading Coca-Cola trucks in Owatonna, Minnesota. Can't sleep after his night shifts. So he sits on the floor of his parents' basement at 2 AM with a MicroKorg synth on his lap.
He has zero audio engineering training. Pressing buttons and turning knobs without knowing what they do. He builds a little "ping" sound, routes it through some guitar pedals, hums melodies over it in gibberish for a few days, then fills in the words.
Three days. Done. Wasn't even his favorite song on the album.
"Fireflies" went #1 in 26 countries. 10 million copies sold. Diamond certified. Hit a billion Spotify streams last month.
Adam Young had no label, no producer, no co-writers, no strategy. He had insomnia and a $500 synthesizer in a basement in a town of 25,000 people.
Pixie the cat, was stuck in a tree for 3 days during the worst storm in Providence, Rhode Island history recently.
They called the police, fire and animal control departments, and all were unable to help because of the record breaking blizzard that dumped 37.9 inches of snow.
The first chance they got, local Providence Union 37 Ironworkers showed up. Matt scaled up the tree & carefully down & saved Pixie.
There are still so many heroes in the world. Bravo Union 37 Ironworkers. Bravo Matt, you are a true gentleman and hero. 👏
NEW: Emergency call released of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee telling authorities to get a helicopter after he swam for four hours to reach the shore.
Appelbee was heard calmly telling authorities that his mom and siblings were stranded at sea.
The boy was heard explaining that his mom told him to swim to shore after they had been swept out about 2.5 miles.
After four hours of swimming, Appelbee had to run about 1.25 miles to reach a phone.
"I’m sitting on the beach right now, and I have to also explain. I think I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia … I feel like I’m about to pass out."
Swims for four hours, sprints 1.25 miles, his body is failing, and he calmly instructs emergency responders to send out a helicopter.
Wild.
We are proud to announce the birth of a Sumatran orangutan, Raya (Rah-yah). Tara, a 30-year-old orangutan, welcomed the healthy baby girl on January 11, and both are doing well while spending lots of time bonding.
Working on a story today about two western NL men who helped a moose get back up on its legs after it fell going over a concrete median on the TCH on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.
160 years ago, a story by Mark Twain made a small village in California, USA, world-famous. In 1865, he wrote about a gambler whose champion frog lost a bet because a stranger secretly forced the animal to swallow heavy lead pellets (gun ammunition) until it was physically too heavy to lift its own body.
To honor this tale, the town of Angels Camp now hosts a professional "Frog Jubilee." The rules are strict: "Jockeys" cannot touch the animal; they must scream or slap the ground to urge three consecutive leaps. In 1986, "Rosie the Ribiter" jumped 6.55 meters (21.5 ft), a feat unbeaten for 40 years.
About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual. When Veronika had an itch, she would grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body. Over the years, the brown bovid’s technique improved. She could pick up objects as large as a broom or rake and move them around with her prehensile tongue, changing their length and orientation to ensure the best possible scratch.
The behavior isn’t just a clever trick: It’s the first documented case of tool use in cattle, scientists report.
And, it turns out, one of Veronika’s skills has only been seen in humans and chimpanzees. Learn more: https://t.co/iVyXt180Oh
Cows itch, just like us. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands. Or rather: into her mouth.
Scientists say it’s the first experimentally verified instance of cattle using a tool. https://t.co/lnEEHQgVai
I’m a parking enforcement officer. Everyone hates me. I get spit on, yelled at, cursed at. Yesterday, I saw a beat-up sedan parked in a "No Parking 8-10 AM" zone. It was 9:00. I started writing the ticket. Then I saw the note on the dashboard. I’m up in apartment 4B helping my dad get into his wheelchair so I can take him to dialysis. The elevator is broken. I’ll be back in 10 minutes. Please have mercy. I looked at the building. No elevator. 4th floor. I ripped up the ticket. I waited. Ten minutes later, a sweaty guy came out carrying a frail old man on his back. He gently placed him in the car. He saw me standing there. He froze, waiting for the ticket. I tipped my cap. "You're good," I said. "Zone doesn't start 'til 10 today." It wasn't true. But the law is black and white. Life is grey.
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