Multiple men and women who have detransitioned described how easy it was for them to get transgender surgeries and hormones in a new CBS 60 Minutes segment — and how the surgeries or treatment negatively impacted them. As lawmakers across the country introduce and pass bills focused on gender transitions, Lesley Stahl interviewed multiple medical
Cone Heads A viral Facebook post is claiming that strange-looking skulls found in Peru are evidence of alien life, USA Today reports. But fortunately — or disappointingly, depending on your frame of reference — the skulls are almost certainly from plain-old human beings. “The eye sockets are normal and perfectly within the range of human
An Indiana man was arrested and charged after his girlfriend’s 17-month-old son died in the hospital from blunt-force trauma injuries. Fort Wayne Police responded with paramedics to a medical call at a residence at an apartment complex on the 2700 block of Millbrook Drive at about 12:35 p.m. on Monday, May 17. A 17-month-old boy
Have you ever heard of biohacking? Well, if you haven’t, it is the process of “hacking” your own biology and improving your brain and body with certain practices. Ari Rastegar is one “biohacking” afficianado. Rastegar is 39 years old, but he claims to have the body of a 5-year-old. The real-estate tycoon has been visiting
Before the summer of 2019, Zephaniah Trevino – known as “Zephi” to friends and family – was living like a typical teen. She was a sophomore in high school at Grand Prairie, Texas. Her mom, Crystal Trevino, says Zephi “lit up a room with her smile and laughter.” At the end of the school year,
The government of Sierra Leone has concluded a deal this month with China to convert 250 acres of beachfront property and protected rainforest into a fishing plant and harbor. Local and international activists criticized the deal, calling it a “catastrophic human and ecological disaster” and a “disaster for the country and the planet.” The UK
A German court has officially declared billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub dead. It has been more than three years since the head of retail group Tengelmann went missing in the Swiss Alps. Haub was 58 years old. He was training for a ski race when he disappeared under Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn peak, located on the southern border
Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year old Iranian man, was beheaded in what an Iranian human-rights group says was an “honor killing” by family members after they learned he was gay. Monfared was killed May 4 — just a few days after his half-brother learned about his sexuality, the Iranian LGBTQ network 6Rang told Insider after
It was a crisp, gray day in January 2020 when I stepped out of my Uber onto what looked like industrial wasteland, a concrete-scapedotted with smokestacks and graffitied shipping containers. I pushed through the glass door of an old brick factory and found myself inside the pristine white walls of the Mana Contemporary arts center.
Paul Alexander, also known as “The Man in the Iron Lung” is paralyzed from the neck down. He hasn’t been able to breathe on his own since 1952. At six years old, Paul contracted the poliovirus. Over the next five days, he “lost everything.” Paul was unable to move or breathe. He was rushed to
