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We live in an age of role reversals, where traditional domestic and workplace norms are rapidly shifting to accommodate cultural changes. Now we may also be living in an age of rapid pole reversals -- because scientists are reporting the Earth's magnetic poles are shifting faster than ever, via MNN.
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The Truth About The Roman Shipwreck Discovered Off Mediterranean Coast
Chances are if you just searched "Mediterranean booty" or "Roman jugs," you weren't expecting to read about one of the largest Roman shipwrecks ever discovered. But much like the discovery itself, it's a story worth diving into and exploring. -
Stinky, Poisonous Molecule May Indicate Extraterrestrial Life
Odiferous underarms, moldy cheese feet, rancid roadkill and acrid eggs -- there's a lot of stank out there, and generally we want nothing to do with it. But now scientists have identified one of the stinkiest molecules of all as a sign of potential alien life. -
Tiny Mealworms May Solve Our Giant Plastic Problem
We've made a big mess of our once pristine planet, treating it the way rocker GG Allin treated his body -- poisoning it with all sorts of noxious concoctions. -
Canadian Wild Pigs Building 'Pigloos' To Survive Winter
Truffle is brewing throughout North America as feral hogs rampage through billions of dollars of crops. Now they've taken to living in hideouts like "pigloos." -
The Truth About Vladimir Putin's Daughters
Russia's a land of magic, and by far the largest landmass in the world. But within that giant land mass there exists the story of Vladimir Putin's daughters. -
The Deepest Free Dive Ever Done By A Human
Freediving is a competitive sport with different variations on the theme of going dangerously deep underwater without oxygen. "No limits" freediving is the discipline where the record for the deepest free dive ever done by a human was set, and boy was it deep. -
Lord Of The Rings TV Show Looking For 'Odd, Wrinkly And Hairy' People To Play Orcs
Amazon's forthcoming The Lord of the Rings TV Series is seeking "'hairy hairy people" with 'wrinkles and lots of them please' to play orcs in the new show," according to the Independent. -
Ancient 'Chewing Gum' Reveals How Woman May Have Looked 5,700 Years Ago
Gum is generally a one and done piece of entertainment. So it's surprising that a 5,700 year-old form of 'chewing gum' remembers its owner well enough that scientists were able to recreate her entire genome, and also see what she had just eaten. You deserve an explanation. -
Putin's Computer Still Runs 18 Year-Old Windows XP
Everyone knows Windows XP is the pinnacle of Bill Gates' operating systems. It all just worked. Perhaps this is why 18 years after it was released, and long after it has stopped being supported, Windows XP is still Vladimir Putin's OS of choice. -
Elf On The Shelf Ideas That Only Adults Will Understand
He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. We're talking of course, about the Elf on the Shelf, the most thinly veiled wolf in sheep's clothing that money can buy. But Elf on the Shelf breaks rules too, in ways only adults will understand. Here's proof. -
Magic Mushroom Nasal Spray On The Way
Instead of decongestants and antihistamines, a company is now making a psilocybin nasal spray. Psilocybin is the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms. -
A San Francisco Man Was Sentenced To Six Months In Jail For Eating Cookie In Rehab
A San Francisco man was just handed a six month sentence for the crime of eating a cookie in rehab. Surely this can't be how the cookie crumbles? -
44,000 Year-Old Indonesian Cave Painting Rewriting History Of Art
We've known that the world's oldest paintings were cave paintings, and for a long time we believed the first and oldest of those paintings to be in Europe. -
Pigeons With Tiny Cowboy Hats Keep Popping Up In Las Vegas
According to USA Today, some scrub is going around putting cowboy hats on pigeons. And while that sounds kinda cute and funny, because it is, it's also not good, because they're using glue. -
Arizona Man Registers Swarm Of Bees As Emotional Support Animals
Emotional support animals have become a bit of a sticky subject. Recognizing how sticky things have become, an Arizona man set out to make them even stickier by registering the sweetest of all animals -- bees. The craziest part? It actually worked. -
Strict Rules All Russian Citizens Have To Follow
Russia has its own ridiculous set of rules and laws that most in the West would hate. There, people are struggling to make it in a world where everything from their memes to their underwear are liable to land them in the slammer. Here are some strict rules all Russian citizens have to follow. -
Europe Launching 'Suicide Robot' To Hug Space Trash To Death
We humans have a tendency to not clean up after ourselves. But some do. Right up there with the best of them is the European Space Agency, which Space.com says is launching a 'suicide robot' to help rid the Earth's orbit of decades of accumulated space junk. -
KFC Selling Chicken-Scented Fire Log To Crisp Up Holidays
KFC will now sell "chicken-scented fire logs" to warm your buns in time for Christmas. The chicken purveyors have teamed with Enviro-Log to bring you the "11 Herbs & Spices Firelog," a shameless name from a company which delights in shining the light of capitalism into the world's darkest crevices. -
Scientifically Proven Side Effects A Man Gets When Using Cologne
Colognes aren't magical in themselves, but under the right circumstances, a person can use them to magical effect. -
Finland Names World's Youngest Prime Minister
Scandinavia's been getting a lot of attention lately. Sweden's got Greta Thunberg staring daggers of ice into anyone alive when PacMan was invented, Norway's got Olaf from Frozen, and Finland? Well, now they've got themselves the world's youngest prime minister. -
Russia Banned From All Global Sport Including Olympics, World Cup
Russia has a bit of a reputation for making questionable decisions in order to further its interests. It might not be a surprise that the "World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has imposed a four-year ban on Russia from all global sport, including the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Cup finals." -
Here's Why Baby Yoda Merch Won't Be Home For Christmas
"Be good, you must, or else under the tree presents from Santa there will not be." That's what Yoda would say. But perhaps Yoda could use a lesson from the dark side of American consumer culture, because his newly popularized brethren, Baby Yoda, will miss out on the Christmas shopping season. -
US Suspected Of Using 'Ninja Bomb', Rare Missile Packed With Swords, In Syria
America spends more on military affairs than China, Saudi Arabia, India, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and Germany ... combined. Some of that spending is absolutely necessary, there's one thing that we can name that seems a bit excessive -- a missile packed with swords, called a "Ninja Bomb." -
Willie Nelson Hasn't Quit Pot, Just Smoking
The internet is ablaze with rumors that one of the world's most iconic tokens of toking, Willie Nelson, quit smoking weed. For a society increasingly enamored with the emerald cabbage of jazz, this was devastating news. After all, Nelson penned the classic "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die." -
SpaceX Launch To Carry Beer, Fire And Mighty Mice To ISS
Scientists have priorities -- they study what they believe to be most likely to have a lasting impact on humanity. Which is why a SpaceX rocket set to launch Wednesday, Dec. 4 is carrying experiments on beer brewing, mouse muscle decay, and "fire behavior" to the International Space Station. -
Russian Scientists Discover 18,000 Year Old Frozen Puppy
Every year we televise an event attended viewed on ESPN by over 2 million people -- a 10-minute hot dog eating contest.