In these trying times, a little retail therapy can do wonders when you’re stressed out of your mind and/or uncertain about your future. (By “retail therapy” I mean: Entering a store, walking around a bit, then leaving without buying anything.) So where do you go when you need your kick? My go-to options are:

This website once ran a valuable column called “Hey, Science” that got the stupid scientific questions of you, the readers, answered by real live experts. Not every question made the cut.

I’m hungry.

Here’s a question on every New Yorker’s mind: Where is it going to happen when it happens in New York City?

At this point, it’s impossible to say for sure whether or not presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is, in fact, attempting to “off” our nation’s elderly population. But judging by footage from the event, we can say that is almost certainly incredibly warm at Clinton’s rally in Raleigh.

Today The Daily Beast published an article titled “Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn” in which the freelance journalist Christopher Ketcham explains the logic of certain progressive voters, including himself, who intend to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee in November. A sampling:

Recode asks: “Did Jack Dorsey send beard shavings to rapper Azealia Banks to promote Square Cash?” Well—did he? For the GIF-filled answer, click here.

During a campaign event in Harlem on Saturday night, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addressed race and politics, and, of course, the issue of Zionist Jews.

Hirsute oracle of the Davos set Thomas Friedman has a question. Thomas Friedman has a lot of questions.

Here is what everyone agrees on: this Halloween, a “massive” asteroid will pass close to earth at “unusually” high speeds. Will it kill us? Well, that is the question.

One more historical dispute has been settled by DNA analysis, according to today’s New York Times: Nan Britton, who claimed to have been a longtime mistress of President Warren G. Harding, did in fact bear Harding’s child out of wedlock in 1919, when he was in the Senate.

It is a question that has plagued the minds of men and women for centuries: “Am I black?” many have wondered. Today—in light of the Rachel Dolezal news, in which the white NAACP president of the Spokane, Washington chapter pretended to be black for the last decade—we rid you of any and all uncertainty with our…

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