Cannabidiol Oil, better known as CBD Oil, has been touted as a cure for a variety of things, ranging from anxiety to inflammation to sleeplessness to pain. Others, however, call CBD a snake oil at worst, placebo at best. Whatever your take, however, you should know that an expert has recently warned that CBD oil can cause you to fail drug tests. This article tells you the story of two people, both using CBD, who failed drug tests. 

And so we return to Network. That movie reminds us that we simply do not want to hear the truth. If we accidentally get some truth dished out to us, we quickly try to turn it into a sideshow, something to be consumed and laughed at rather than pondered over or engaged with. The anonymous audiences in that movie did not really want truth, they wanted to be mollified and entertained. Musk and Trump know that, and they give us what we want. 

A few years ago, the company that made the EpiPen, Mylan, hiked the price of its life-saving device a stunning four-hundred percent. Many blamed the hike, in part, on the FDA’s delay in approving the generic version of the EpiPen. Finally, a company called Teva has been approved to produce a competing, generic EpiPen. The FDA commissioner stated: “This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to life-saving epinephrine should have a lower-cost option, as well as another approved product to help protect against potential drug shortages,”

Do the dulcet tones of Super Nintendo music make you feel nostalgic? Do you remember the dreamy soundscapes of Donkey Kong Country 2? Or maybe you haven’t heard any Super Nintendo music. Whatever the case, this video is a fascinating look at how music designers and game designers made their teeny, tiny 64kb processors work for them. And they had to work hard––to make really good soundscapes, one designer spent five weeks inputting individual sounds. 

Let’s all take a minute to remember the “don’t tase me bro” guy and all the memes he inspired. Unfortunately, this story will not go down in the meme annals of tasering. Instead, it’s just another sad example of unnecessary police force. The woman was just cutting dandelions, according to family members. She happened to be using a kitchen knife, though, and that led to her tasering.

Darth Vader was only on film for about thirty-four minutes combined in the first three Star Wars movies. He’s become one of the all-time favorite baddies in all cinema history, and his patented raspy, metallic breathing is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. This Nerdwriter video examines how Darth Vader evolved over the course of the Star Wars movies and what made him such a successful villain, focusing especially on the cinematography. 

Bruce Hopkins attempted to kidnap a girl last weekend. She was with a few friends, and all of them were between eleven and fourteen. Hopkins, who is a big ol’ creep as you can tell by the mugshot, apparently thought that the kids were easy targets. He thought wrong. The girls went bananas on him, punching, kicking, the works. They even threw a hot cup of coffee on Hopkins. Their defenses saved their friend. 

The moral of the story is to teach your kids––and yourselves!––to fight back. Criminals like Hopkins don’t attack people who look like they’ll fight back or who attempt to fight back. That being said, don’t attempt to fight a mugger. Your life isn’t worth a wallet. 

Wormholes are a staple of science-fiction space travel. The travel in Contact was based on the wormholes possible within General Relativity. The space-horror Event Horizon featured a ship that used a special gravity drive to make a black hole, which would open a wormhole to another star. Unfortunately, it went to hell, but that’s neither here nor there. What about the travel part, is that really possible? This Kurzgesagt episode explains the different possibilities for wormholes.

A recent grand jury report accuses more than 300 priests of abusing a thousand children over the course of seventy years. Some of the abuse cases are truly terrible: “a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out; a victim tied up and whipped with leather straps by a priest; and another priest who was allowed to stay in ministry after impregnating a young girl and arranging for her to have an abortion.” 

The priests were able to get away without punishment because leaders in the church hierarchy covered up for the priests, moving them around or retiring them to avoid trouble. 

Astroturfing is a clever way of describing corporate-sponsored grassroots movements. Get it? It is not real grass? Anyway, the point is that some of the protests or ads you see are not actually protests, they are bought and paid for by corporations. These protests or ads are either entirely secret or run under names of fake citizens groups. This is doubly dangerous, not only because our democracy is at stake but also because accusations of astroturfing can ruin actual movements. 

Both The Shining and IT were terrifying, yet somewhat perplexing movies. This video suggests that the some of the finer, trickier plot points in the films are actually connected. Essentially, the argument is that the character in The Shining who had the shining (or the “shinning,” if you’re a Simpsons fan) was the same person who could see IT as an adult without going insane. Take a look at this theory and see what you think, leave your opinion in the comments. 

One year after the United the Right rally, the so-called Alt-Right planned to meet again in Washington D.C. To prepare for the event, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) provided D.C. area restaurants with information about their legal rights to refuse service to white supremacists and similar fringe groups. For one owner, this was not a political move. “For me this isn’t political. It’s not partisan. I have no comment on the Trump administration. But it’s a really big topic. My team, people are nervous. They’re offended. They’re scared to take public transportation.”