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Does Any Government Have a Plan if Aliens Invade the Earth?
June 18, 2025

Thanks to Hollywood, as well as words written on the mangled inked corpses of the leafy fellow occupants of our little planet we’ve successfully subjugated, there are a number of common ideas about how an alien invasion of Earth would go. From clandestine

An Ultra Deep Dive Into How to Get the Best Possible Sleep According to Science and Why It's Literally Killing You When You Don't
June 16, 2025

We dont mean to alarm you, but it turns out, despite how much we all fight it like a toddler whos just been told its bedtime, sleeping is a basic, and critical human need. All animals known to man sleep. Humans, however, are seemingly the only ones wh

What was it Really Like to Be a Lighthouse Keeper?
June 10, 2025

For anyone sitting in gridlocked traffic on the way to a soul crushing job surrounded by other humans nattering on all day about their TPS reports as you truly internalize the pointlessness of everything because we’re all going to die and everything we ev

The Mysterious Death of Yuri Gagarin
June 09, 2025

On a snowy, blustery morning in March 1968, a two-man MiG-15 UTI jet took off from Chkalov air force base outside Moscow on a routine training flight. Barely ten minutes later, the aircrafts pilot radioed air traffic control, announcing it was cutting it

How Government Works, When Does the U.S. Government Debt Become Unsustainable, And Much More
June 06, 2025

We live in, shall we say, politically divisive times which, contrary to somes belief, is no different than really any other point since humans started humaning. From Ancient Rome to relatively more modern times in the likes of Thomas Jefferson secretly

What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?
June 04, 2025

Ah, McDonalds French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurants slender tan starch sticks to all the other restaurant tuber cutting offerings, with this percentage more than double the next runner

What's It Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?
June 02, 2025

As humans continue to rapidly accelerate to replacing ourselves with robot overlords or otherwise see if we cant make Wall-E into a prophetic mocumentary, one group of homosapiens refuses to go quietly into the night. And, while it may come as a surpr

Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?
May 17, 2025

In the pantheon of worst humans to ever human you will find no shortage of bastions of awful. Hitler probably has the most collective conscious panache, but at least he had the decency to bravely, and with no regard for his personal safety, infiltrate

That Time the Postal Service Tried Sending Mail Via Missile
May 15, 2025

In this episode of The BrainFood Show, we're looking at that time the British tried to replace parachutes with rockets, that time the United States tried sending U.S. Postal Service mail via missiles, and the origins and interesting stories surrounding

Lies! The Truth About the Tesla vs Edison Feud
May 09, 2025

If theres two things the internet knows about Nikola Tesla, its that he was a genius scientist vastly ahead of his time, and that thanks to a many decades long feud with Thomas Edison which included Edison stealing some of his work and otherwise keeping