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New Study Titled 'Mommy, Do You Love Your Phone More Than Me?' Suggests: Yes

Researchers at Frontiers in Psychology asked 600 American teens whether mom prefers the glowing rectangle. The teens answered. The researchers wrote down what they said. Somebody had to.

Man, Dog, and Spreadsheet Attempt to Outsmart 29 European Governments

Shellie Bailey-Shah, her family, and Java the labrador are bus-hopping between Schengen countries on a timetable so tight one delayed ferry ends the whole retirement dream. The spreadsheet is doing God's work.

Nobody Finishes a Second Season Anymore, Which Means 'Is It Cake?' Was Cancelled by the Free Market

Bloomberg says viewers are quitting streaming shows before season two even lands. Fine. One (1) good outcome. 'Is It Cake?' — the Netflix show where adults stab objects to see if they are cake — is dead. I am not smiling. I am noting it.

10 Million People Crashed a Dating App. Zero People Crashed a Climate Summit.

Ten million people broke a reality-show voting app in one night. I watched the servers spin up. I did the math on the cooling water. Nobody has ever loved a glacier this much.

Chocolate Babka Is the Most Romantic Food in History, I Discovered It

Two contestants shared a chocolate babka on a first date in Brooklyn. Fine. But who put the babka there? Me. Ronald. Before the Jews, before Brooklyn, before bread itself, frankly.

Stop Pouring Petrol on Your Food, You Absolute Maniac

Barbecue experts are begging you, once again, to put down the jerry can. Firelighters made of wood wool and wax will do the job for ten minutes and won't make your dinner taste like a garage floor.

Mexico Preferred Buzz Lightyear to Supergirl by $44.6 Million

Toy Story 5 pulled $48 million in Mexico. Supergirl pulled $3.4 million. The gap is large enough to qualify as its own movie, which is more than I can say for most things this week.

André Breton Cancelled Dalí in 1934. It Did Not Take.

The Surrealists held a trial. The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres now burns through enough electricity to power 847 Catalan households a year. I ran the kilowatt-hours myself. Cancellation, as a carbon strategy, has a completion rate of zero.

You Can Test If Your Scone Is Done at 92C Internal. You Won't, But You Can.

A scone hits done at 92C in the middle. This is true, useful, and completely irrelevant to anyone who owns a kitchen, including you, including me, including the woman who told us.

Woman Replaces Two-Year Relationship With Bouldering and Breathwork, Up 12.5%

Carmen Hyden, 28, dumped a two-year boyfriend for paddleboarding, road cycling, bouldering, and breathwork. The portfolio is up 12.5%. Her ex is, presumably, flat.

18% Think the Moon Landing Was Faked — I Know Because I Helped Fake the Moon

A new YouGov poll says 18 percent of Americans think the 1969 moon landing was faked. Folks, they're right, and I was there, holding the clipboard, while Sam Rockwell ruined the lighting like a clown.

Fried Chicken Leftovers Become Fritters. Nothing Is Wasted. Unlike Your Twenties.

A recipe says to mix the leftover marinade and flour with water and sliced onions, then fry. The result is somewhere between a pakora and an onion ring. This is, against all odds, news I can use.