FEATURED STORY: The Doors’ Ray Manzarek Walks You Through the Writing of the Band’s Iconic Song, “Riders on the Storm”

TODAY’S TOP TEN:

1. Stronger men have weaker sperm.

2. Liquor Heiress Charged in Sex Cult Case

3. Brain Gain: A Person Can Instantly Blossom into a Savant--and No One Knows Why

4. How to make fire bricks out of junk mail

5. A 12-mile, underground lake may have been found on Mars. What could live there?

6. Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same

7. For Centuries, People Took Chunks of Stonehenge Home as Souvenirs

8. Toad-licking thieves caught on camera in Arizona

9. Honeybee pheromones safely repel elephants, study finds

10. Why facts don't change our minds

DID YOU KNOW…

…Some people start their days with a small dose of LSD?

FEATURED STORY: For My Entire Childhood, My Mom Convinced Me I Was Dying

TODAY’S TOP TEN:

1. A startup backed by Peter Thiel has churned out 20,000 doses of magic mushrooms, and is making more

2. David Bowie's first demo track discovered in old bread basket

3. Researchers say this 5-minute technique could help you fall asleep more quickly

4. Which Movies Get the Science of Time Travel Right?

5. An Army officer is publicly protesting the US government's 'war machine' — and it's gotten the Army's attention

6. Users Sue Juul for Addicting Them to Nicotine

7. Can you recover from schizophrenia? A Norwegian study suggests you can

8. Worst upgrade ever: there are bed bugs on airplanes now.

9. I squeezed through a 7-inch passage to find ancient humans

10. Radioactive Traces from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Found in California Wine

DID YOU KNOW…

…about all the cool “treasure” this guy finds diving in rivers?

FEATURE STORY:

Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

TODAY’S TOP TEN:

1. How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda

2. Jersey overrun with feral chickens after families dump pets when they become too big, council says

3. All the Roman Roads of Italy, Visualized as a Modern Subway Map

4. Scientists Seeking to Synthesize Human Milk

5. The coach of the Thai soccer team stuck in a cave taught the boys to meditate to conserve energy

6. 'Melting road' leaves cars 'drowning in tar' in Australia

7. Go Web, Go! Spiders May Use Silk to Sail On Electric Fields

8. Honey Badger Takes on an Antelope, and It Doesn't Go Well

9. 'Blind' Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles

10. Poisonous Books Discovered in Danish University Library

DID YOU KNOW…

The common plecostomus (“sucker-mouth catfish”) sold in pet stores has become an invasive species in some lakes and ponds of the United States? Don’t release them into the wild!

Red, White and Blue Crabs: These Tree-Climbing, Bird-Killing Crabs Come in Multiple Colors and No One Knows Why

When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated, for Years, That He Was Being Followed by Crabs

Silicon Valley insiders say Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter are using 'behavioral cocaine' to turn people into addicts

How Much Dark Matter Passes Through You?

Without lemur poo, Madagascar’s trees may be doomed

Woman Rescued a Baby Raccoon. Now, She and 20 Friends Need Rabies Treatment.

Lab-made embryos may save near-extinct rhino species

There’s a crazy plan to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to fix Cape Town’s water crisis

Study Shows That Sitting for Six Hours a Day is Linked to 14 Deadly Diseases

Study after study shows ex-prisoners would be better off without intense supervision

Testosterone causes men to desire luxury goods

Brain stimulation could zap out violent and criminal thoughts, according to new research

A new use for ATMs in Kenya: camel milk dispenser

Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?

A Woman Lost Her Toenails After a Fish Pedicure

Scientists Try for 1st-Ever Meteorite Recovery at Sea

Poisonous Books Discovered in Danish University Library

We might have started kissing to share chewed up food (and other delicious facts about smooching)

Bird's Song Staying Power Implies Culture

Bad sleep habits will cost the U.S. $434 billion in 2020