Stop Selling Me the 10 Percent Brain Lie
Once I thought unlocking 90 percent of my brain would pay rent; turns out the myth is pop culture theatre and brains are far more mundane and brilliant.Read More 
People Proper Think Birds Are Drones
A daft internet cult insists pigeons are government spy drones and, for reasons, people actually buy the T-shirts.Read More 
Hemispheres Don't Tell Your Toilet What To Do
The Coriolis effect runs weather, not your panicked bathroom swirl; your loo's direction is plumbing, not planetary spite.Read More 
That 'Sonic Attack' Was Probably Just Crickets (And Panic)
Back in 2016 the world panicked at the idea of a secret sonic weapon - turns out a cricket and mass hysteria did all the heavy lifting.Read More 
The Floating Trash Island That Isn't
People imagine a plastic continent you could camp on; in reality it's a greasy, invisible soup of microplastics, nets and bad ideas.Read More 
Sewer Alligators, My Dear
Yes, New York once found a stray baby gator or two, but the grand notion of an organised, subterranean alligator republic is deliciously wrong.Read More 
The Mandela Effect: How Millions Remember Nonsense Like It's Gospel
Millions insist the past was different and blame parallel universes; the truth is duller, crueller and far funnier.Read More 
My Head Hates WiFi, But Science Keeps Saying Not Guilty
People feel awful around phones and routers and that feeling is absolutely real; the weird fact is double blind studies almost always show they cannot tell when signals are actually on.Read More 
When a Grape Turns Your Microwave Into a Mini Thunderbox
Cut a grape properly, nudge it into a microwave and electromagnetic manners will turn fruit into tiny lightning with all the charm of a civil servant on strike.Read More
When Rock Music Was Sued For Whispering To Your Brain
A legal case from 1990 turned the quaint idea of 'hidden commands in records' into a courtroom farce - and the court politely declined to believe in hypnotic turntables.
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