Author: Steve DiMatteo

When you donate your body to science, you probably expect it to go toward some good cause, not for your skull to end up sitting on a shelf in a store somewhere. But if you’ve had a family member donate their body to the Harvard Medical School over the past five years, there’s a chance their brain, skin, or other body parts have been sold off to the highest bidder on the black market. That’s the information coming to light from federal prosecutors, as a grand jury is indicting 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, the manager of Harvard’s Medical School, and his…

If you were to see this headline ten years ago – hell, a year ago – you might think this is the least newsworthy item of all time. But in today’s culture war climate, things move at a blistering, blinding pace, and today the conservative movement is boycotting Bud Light beer because of the brand’s audacity to advertise with Dylan Mulvaney, a popular transgender influencer and TikTok personality. Conservatives are serious here, too: Kid Rock not only shot up a bunch of Bud Light cases in a video to show he meant business (other conservative personalities have vowed to never…

Our family likes to essentially throw a dart at Airbnb listings to pick where we travel next. This exercise recently took us to Massanutten, Virginia, home to the Massanutten Resort, and just a stone’s throw away from Harrisonburg – the quintessential college town of James Madison University – and the Shenandoah National Park. On the drive to Shenandoah, you pass through Elkton, where you’ll come across the Elkton Brewing Company, right in the heart of the town and down the road from the Miller-Kite House Museum, which was the headquarters of General Stonewall Jackson at the beginning of the Shenandoah…

President John F. Kennedy was one of the key driving forces behind the United States’ entry into the space race and its ultimate conclusion, in which the U.S. landed on the moon in the summer of 1969. In 1962, Kennedy was the one who really pushed the United States into the space race with the Soviet Union, declaring in his famous speech that the country would land on the moon – “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard” – before the end…

Americans are beyond lucky to have their national parks. With 424 national park sites that span more than 84 million acres, we are afforded the priceless opportunity to experience the splendid natural beauty of this country. That being said, nobody ever said these parks were safe. Preserving the natural wonders of North America means there are precautions visitors need to take, and not everyone always heeds those warnings. Deaths do occur at national parks, and while the stats vary year to year, it’s not an insignificant amount. More than 200 people died at national parks in 2022. Of course, 311…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running as a Democrat in the 2024 presidential field and actually polling fairly well at the moment. But there’s very little, if anything, in his beliefs that tie him to the actual Democratic Party platform. Or, really, the platform of any sane individual. In fact, Kennedy will latch on to just about any conspiracy theory out there, which has made him something of a darling with right-wing personalities, garnering coverage on Fox News, a recent Twitter space hangout with Elon Musk, and endorsements from a real rogues’ gallery, including crypto shills like Jack Dorsey. Here’s…

I’ll just get this out of the way now: We don’t care enough about space these days (though maybe that will change with the Artemis missions). Back in the 60s and into the early 70s, spaceflight was all the rage. Of course, once we got to the Moon, people lost interest pretty quick, which is insane to consider some four decades later (even if the later missions were essentially geological hunts). But there was once a time when the entire world was captivated by the Apollo program. Here is a look at every Apollo mission and its objectives, ranging from…

I’ve heard of creepypasta, but this is ridiculous. Sorry. Anyway, the country has been captivated by a mystery taking place in the New Jersey woods, where literally hundreds of pounds – estimated to be as much as 500 – of cooked pasta was dumped near a river basin in Old Bridge. It’s a baffling sight, seeing all this pasta – mostly spaghetti and macaroni – left in gigantic piles in the middle of the woods. It begs so many questions: Who put it here? How did someone get nearly 15 wheelbarrow loads of pasta out here in the first place?…

The death of Osama bin Laden was a surreal moment in American history. He was one of the main architects of 9/11, a well-known terrorist to the government for many years before, and the main face behind the tragic event that killed 2,996 people on that 2001 September day, completely reshaping American culture as we know it in the process. The September 11th attacks sparked a global manhunt for bin Laden that morphed into a giant, illegal, and unwinnable war, and on May 2, 2011, he was now dead. The United States got their guy, though in the end, it…

The thought of allowing students to go hungry at school is unconscionable for any normal human being, but it’s something our government is quite adept at; ignoring child hunger is one of the few things governments at all levels seem to accomplish with ease. As you can see, each state approaches feeding children at school a bit differently. But rather than simply declare that all children have a right to be fed and it’s our inherent duty to accomplish that in a public school setting, the laws surrounding school meals remain a Byzantine exercise that seems intent on creating the…