What Is That Inner Voice Inside My Head When I Think?
Featured FactorialWhat do imaginary friends, quiet talking, and schizophrenia have in common?
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If You Hate The Sound of Your Own Voice, Welcome to the Club
You can thank sound wave physics and an uncanny but slightly off resemblance.
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What is ASMR? And How Can You Get Tingly With It?
20 YouTube artists share their experience and insights on this mysterious phenomenon.
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There’s More to the Human Voice Than You Think
There’s More to the Human Voice Than You Think. Here’s 10 Facts that prove it.
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Voice Recognition Tech Knows You Better Than Your Therapist
There are way too many things that can be detected from your voice
The Sleep Issue
Sleep Deprivation Can Actually Kill You and Others
Featured FactorialGet enough rest – your life could depend on it.
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Stimulants: Armed Forces Fight Sleep to Fight Each Other
Fatigue, machine guns and military fighter jets just don’t mix. Bring on the drugs!
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Bored with Your Regular Dreams? Try Lucid Dreaming, Today!
More important uses of lucid dreaming than being able to sleep with A-list celebrities
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12 facts that will make you thankful for a good night’s sleep
How much we need it, or need to avoid it ( if you’re a military ...
The Greek Gods Must Be Crazy
Aphrodite’s Affairs and the Love Children That Inspired English
Featured FactorialAphrodite and her promiscuity has been a blessing for the English language.
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The Greek Gods Who Are Hiding In Our Words
Some of our favorite Greek characters and the words they have inspired
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Greek Mythology is a Big Supporter of your Pain Meds Addiction
The Greek empire’s love of opium laid the foundation for its popularity today.
Immortality
The Human Quest to Understand Immortality
Featured FactorialDeath is a natural part of life. At least, that’s what we’re taught.
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Telomerase: Hacking your lifespan
Nature has equipped us with telomeres. They’re both a blessing and a ticking time bomb.
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The Youth Industry: Keeping Us Young at any Cost
Immense sums of money are thrown into the quest for eternal youth
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Immortality: The Infographic
The history, nature, and science of Immortality rolled up into an infographic. (Starring Ponce de ...
Taste
Strange Tastes From Around the World
Featured FactorialOne culture’s festering food is another’s beloved delicacy.
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Why Humans Needed Cooking to Evolve
You may have fire to thank for making us the big-brained species we are now.
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Why You Love foods that Others Hate (and Vice-Versa)
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A Cheesemonger’s POV
SF’s foremost cheesemonger, Mission Cheese’s Eric Miller, on how to cheese like a boss.
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10 Tempting Food Facts from Around the World
Let’s treat ourselves to some amazing food facts, that are sure to tempt our taste ...
The Freak Show Issue
How the Greatest Freak Shows on Earth Came to Be
Featured FactorialHow P.T. Barnum and his cohorts boosted human abnormalities into the mainstream.
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Staying True with Dakota, a Modern Day Bearded Lady
The Venice Beach Freakshow’s newest Bearded Beauty, talks truth and consequences.
Agents of Decay
Agents of Decay: Mother Nature’s “Cleaners”
Featured FactorialHighly trained special forces that clean up our mess.
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What do we do with All of this Trash?
Set it on the curb, big truck comes, and garbage disappears, right?
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11 Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Decay
It’s gross and dirty, but it’s why we’re not up to our eyeballs in junk. ...
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The True Origins of Hollywood’s Favorite Monsters
A Vampire, Zombie, and Frankenstein walk into a bar.
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These Illustrated Phobia Facts Probably Won’t Hurt You
Phobias can be downright terrifying. Luckily, these following facts aren’t, unless you’re scared of cartoon ...
The Happiness Issue
Winning Happiness in the Game of Life
Featured FactorialIf happiness was a game, how would you win it?
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Why This is Gonna Make you Laugh
Viral laughing epidemic in Tanzania, and the real reasons for laughter
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Helpful Monsters Show Us 12 Ways To be Happy
You won’t find cheesy happiness quotes and phony beach sunset stock photos here.
The Next Life Issue
How Life After Death is Celebrated by People Around the World
Featured FactorialOur oldest religious and spiritual traditions help us to interpret the great unknown.
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Who Are The Lost Souls that Remain Trapped Here With Us?
I mean, who wouldn’t want their very own pet demon baby / personal thief?
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From Heaven to Hell: Unusual Roads to the Afterlife
Some are pushed off bridges, and some are sent to Jamaica.
Giving
Quirky Gift-Giving Etiquette – How Not to Offend Everybody in the World
Featured FactorialJust as all humans must eat, sleep, and breathe air to live, we have almost instinctively been gift-giving for thousands of years. But in different ways…
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Optimize Your Lazy Gift-Giving Technique
Do you have a go to gift-giving technique? Is it optimized?
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Why animal gift-giving is a survival instinct
Animal gift-giving has everything to do with making sure the species survives.
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10 Interesting Gifts in the Human and Animal Kingdom
Gift-giving is embraced by pretty much everyone. What exactly those gifts are, well…
Emoji 😅
Get Awkward with the Happy Sweat Emoji
Featured FactorialI’m the expression for all your sheepish, self-conscious, awkward moments. Here’s my story.
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Being a Hobo Was Hard, Hoboglyphs Made It Easier
Sketched with coal or chalk, the secret codes of hobos were pointers for fellow travelers.
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Tattoos to Get If You Were a Russian Criminal
As a Russian criminal of the 1960s-80s, tattoos were your public image. On your body ...
Desserts
The Surprising Origin of Desserts from War and Medicine
FactorialiteHow sweets were born of wars, conquest, and apothecary’s chests.
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Mouthwatering Food Photography When All You Have Is Your Phone
And for the love of all that is holy, turn off the flash
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What Dessert Are You? A Factorialist Personality Test
An unreal analysis of who you are, using after dinner menu items.
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Strategic Military Uses of Chocolate and Ice Cream
Why chocolate was a strategic resource that didn’t taste good, but ice cream did.
