The Consumer Federation of America just released a report estimating the true cost of online scams at $148.2 billion — seven times the $21.1 billion officially reported to the FBI, because only about 14% of fraud victims report to any law enforcement body at all. Also: a new Nature Communications study from the University of Tübingen found that the hippocampus — the brain's memory-forming region — fluctuates between high and low states of readiness, and whether a memory gets encoded may have as much to do with your brain's internal state at that moment as with the experience itself. And the federal government's 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released Monday, found 21.4 million Americans now use marijuana daily or near-daily — more than the 19.9 million daily cigarette smokers or 17.2 million daily drinkers. Plus Katy Perry trapped in a bottle, the teen who died saving his brother from lightning, the woman who spent years biting her husband's toes, and the 116-year overdue library books.
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