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Jerry Springer speaks to guests during his show December 17, 1998 (Getty Images)

20 memorable talk show moments

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss

From car-giving to couch-jumping, talk shows have provided an unusual venue for shenanigans & unexpected incidents

A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

"Q" candidate's Bitcoin fundraising ploy

Brad Reed - Raw Story

The FEC prohibits more than $100 in bitcoin donations to a congressional campaign

Two policemen carry stretcher bearing Negro nationalist leader Malcolm X after he was downed by an assassin's bullets at a rally on February 21st. The 39-year-old Malcolm was pronounced dead at the hospital when he was taken for treatment. The assassination of the one-time Muslim official came one week after the bombing of his home on February 13th. (Getty Images /  Bettmann / Contributor)

Did the FBI order Malcolm X's murder?

Bob Hennelly

Two innocent men have been exonerated — but Malcolm was surrounded by FBI informants on the day of his death

View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

Anti-vax politico in hospital for COVID

Alex Henderson - Alternet

It's just the latest cautionary tale in a country where the virus and vaccine have become politicized

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Coronavirus, COVID-19 concept (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Everything we know about Omicron variant

Brett Bachman

World Health Organization named it a "variant of concern" Friday — the agency's most serious designation

R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Chris Bilhiemer)

REM's Stipe: "Lyric writing is not easy"

Annie Zaleski

The singer recalls collaborating with Patti Smith & the challenges of making his favorite album 25 years ago

Jeremy Renner attends the "Hawkeye" New York special fan screening at AMC Lincoln Square on November 22, 2021 in New York City (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Disney)

Jeremy Renner weighs in on Marvel films

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming

The "Hawkeye" star acknowledges that Marvel movies serve a different purpose within the entertainment realm

Former President Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump mad Woodward wrote books about him

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

"Our Country has been taken over by Scammers and Hoaxsters, and we have to take it back," Trump wrote

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Discredited doctor, Andrew Wakefield | Demonstrators march through central London in a protest against Covid-19 measures including vaccine passports, mandates and inoculations for children on November 20, 2021 in London, England. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The forefather of today's anti-vaxxers

Matthew Rozsa

A movement that was once merely a microaggression against people with autism is now a public health crisis

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange insluts with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park during the "Unite the Right" rally. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Charlottesville damages hard to get

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Many of the defendants are in prison, in hiding or have dropped out of the White nationalist movement

Neo-Nazi protestors organized by the National Socialist Movement demonstrate near where the grand opening ceremonies were held for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center April 19, 2009 in Skokie, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Ex-neo-Nazi: "We're going to have a war"

David Masciotra

Individual "deradicalization" is pointless, says Christian Picciolini — if we can't change society, we're doomed

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Sen. Scott wrong about Medicare premiums

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

A press release by Sen. Rick Scott blamed inflation for rising medicare premiums. The claim was largely inaccurate

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(Linda Xiao / Food52)

8 leftover turkey pasta recipes

Courtney Kassel - Food52

My favorite way to use up turkey looks nothing like a typical plate of leftovers

Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, and Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Dr. Fauci addressed the testing of vaccines and if they will be ready by the end of the year or early 2021. (Graeme Jennings- Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci expresses concern over new variant

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

The variant "seems to be spreading at a reasonably rapid rate"

Mike Lindell (Patrick McMullan/Getty Images)

Mike Lindell's latest Fox News failure

Alex Henderson - Alternet

The My Pillow guy continues to sell the election fraud lie, but nobody's paying enough attention to buy it

A festival attendee gets a rapid COVID-19 test during 2021 Made In America at Benjamin Franklin Parkway on September 05, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

Vaccine-or-test requirements are costly

Amanda Michelle Gomez, Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

Local governments often have to use federal COVID relief funds that would be better allocated elsewhere

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Small girl writing with felt tip pen while relaxing on the carpet at home (Getty Images/skynesher)

Stop pressuring me to have more kids

Allison Jack

I choose to parent an only child for better quality of life, more time, and less stress

Lemon Chicken and Rice Casserole (Deb Lindsey For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A casserole redux for leftover turkey

Maggie Hennessy

A very Midwestern chicken hotdish gets a few (respectful) updates

Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Chevron selling oil from illegal spill

Aaron Cantú - Capital & Main

Two years after it began, state regulators have yet to issue any penalties for the spill

(Bobbi Lin / Food52)

How to transform leftover potatoes

Katie Macdonald - Food52

Think beyond reheating

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"Rogers: The Musical" in "Hawkeye" (Marvel Studios/Disney)

I need "Rogers: The Musical" to be real

Kaitlin Thomas

Avengers, unite on stage 'cause I got to hear Steve say, "I can do this all day!!!"

CERN (European Organization For Nuclear Research) (Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images)

Is science stuck?

Michael Bhaskar

All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, so it seems — a principle that applies to art and invention, too

English Egyptologist Howard Carter near golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamen mummy in Egypt in 1923, colorized document (Harry Burton/Apic/Getty Images)

9 victims of King Tut's curse

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss

When the tomb of King Tut was re-discovered in 1922, some believe an ancient curse was released as well

Ji-Young, Simu Liu and Big Bird on "Sesame Street: See Us Coming Together" (Sesame Workshop/WarnerMedia)

16 Muppets who moved to Sesame Street

Joy Saha

After meeting the first Asian American Muppet, we look at others who've joined the inclusive kids TV neighborhood

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