Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out how to take the easy way out by using ChatGPT to do their homework or write their essays, one college … Read more
It flew the coop to help her cope. A Canadian psychology professor who studies how relationships with pets support healthy development has her own unusual therapy animal: an emotional support chicken to assist her with daily life. “I feel like she’s so smart. She can understand my emotions,” Sonia Kong told the CBC about the … Read more
He’s too cool for school. Brooklyn native Vic St. John is the first college professor to ever be cast on “Love Is Blind” — and he’s getting a crash course in being a reality show star. The Ohio State University public policy professor now has to stay after class for students who want to pose … Read more
Beloved Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” has secret racial and “bigoted” messages, according to a woke college professor who insists that the fictional town of Bedford Falls is too white. James Deaville, who teaches music at Carleton University in Canada, chided the timeless movie for its music, claiming it is full of “racism.” “Listen and pay … Read more
“Heteropessimism” is a trendy buzzword right now, with female writers lamenting the state of straightness in thought pieces and TikTokkers pitting the sexes against one another. And a Wharton professor’s book is being lauded as, according to New York Magazine, “an economist’s take on heteropessimism,” as though more negativity about heterosexuality is what we need. … Read more
Barbecue is a staple in most Midwestern diets. When paired with a side of potato salad, it becomes a mouth-watering meal. However, for one Kansas man, it nearly cost him his life, all thanks to a tick bite. “I knew something was wrong when I was in the ER in September of this last year,” Brian McCornack told FOX … Read more
A respected philosophy professor who plunged to his death amid an investigation over historical sexual assault allegations led an “extremely kinky, illicit drug taking” double life behind closed doors, according to an escort who entered into a “sex contract” with the 77-year-old promising to “make her daddy happy.” Dr John Forge, an honorary professor at … Read more
Call it a dinomite discovery. A Long Island professor is among researchers who discovered a new dinosaur species in Zimbabwe — the fourth ever uncovered in the African nation. Stony Brook University professor Kimi Chapelle played a pivotal role in finding fossils of this lengthy-necked herbivore, called a sauropodomorph dino, which inhabited the area 210 … Read more
“Misery” loves company. Research suggests that male psychopaths outnumber female psychopaths by around 6 to 1, but a UK professor is claiming the ratio is actually about 1.2 to 1 — up to five times higher. Dr. Clive Boddy, an Anglia Ruskin University professor who specializes in corporate psychopathy, argues that female psychopaths are flying … Read more
A California professor, who is no stranger to controversial opinions, speculated that it might be racist to be a Taylor Swift fan. “Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?” Melina Abdullah posted to X on Super Bowl Sunday. Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University … Read more
A Princeton professor accused of “arguing for decades that we need to rethink bestiality” is again under fire for urging his social media followers to “read and ponder” a “thought provoking” journal article entitled “Zoophilia is Morally Permissible.” Dr Peter Singer, a teacher of bioethics at the Ivy League school’s Center for Human Values since … Read more
Eating organic has long been touted as the way to avoid pesticide consumption — but one Harvard professor is saying those claims are bogus. Robert Paarlberg, an associate professor in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Sustainability Science Program, has said that eating organic produce isn’t necessarily better. Paarlberg told the Harvard Gazette that “there is no … Read more
Ryan Harman lost her mom to cancer last year. In an essay for her English class, she divulged the heart-wrenching journey from diagnosis to death — bringing the internet and her West Virginia University professor to tears. Harman shared the lengthy text in a viral TikTok video this week, garnering more than 13 million views … Read more
A Florida professor has set the world record for the longest time spent living underwater without depressurization. Dr. Joseph Dituri, 55, has spent 74 days living in Jules’ Undersea Lodge at the bottom of 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo as of Saturday and plans to spend at least 100 days there, according to the Associated Press. The duration … Read more
This teacher really put them to the test. Professor Khair ul Bashar of Comsats University in Islamabad, Pakistan, was fired and blacklisted after posing a question about incest to his electrical engineering students in an exam. “The content of the quiz is highly objectionable and totally against the curriculum laws of the Islamic Republic of … Read more
If there is anything in World Series broadcasting akin to Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 championship-winning homer, it occurred in Arizona on Nov. 3, 2001. It was Game 7 of the World Series. The bases were loaded with one out and the score was tied in the bottom of the ninth. Mariano Rivera faced the Diamondbacks’ left-handed-swinging … Read more
A Harvard professor believes an alien spacecraft may have crashed to Australia’s north a decade ago — and he’s planning an expedition to retrieve the object from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb has previously made waves by claiming the object that streaked across the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New … Read more
Last month, word spread that a drug was finally shown to slow Alzheimer’s disease, and overnight a 73-year-old Swedish professor made $350 million. The lucky man, Lars Lannfelt, was not particularly famous. He had done pioneering work on the disease, but it was in the 90s and belonged to a sub-field that, after a litany … Read more