Kyle Chayka

Freelance writer living in Brooklyn.

Recent Articles

High-Five Camera

High five, bro!

By Kyle Chayka

App Measures Emotional Intelligence

Should there be an empathy requirement for the Internet?

By Kyle Chayka

School Bans Red Ink

Can students not handle being wrong?

By Kyle Chayka

Animals Fall From Sky

We're going to need better umbrellas

By Kyle Chayka

Squirrel Lives in Ponytail

Have you check your hair for critters lately?

By Kyle Chayka

Browser History Favicon Mosaic

Which sites do you visit most?

By Kyle Chayka

Dropped Food's 5-Second Rule Is Actually Real

It's still best to keep your food on your plate

By Kyle Chayka

Myspace Is for Sex Workers

Social media helps pimps advertise their business

By Kyle Chayka

Shaq Buys $1000 of Apps Weekly

Most of it is deer hunting games?

By Kyle Chayka

Sex Box Is a TV Show

Put a couple in a box, they have sex, and then people grill them about it

By Kyle Chayka

Watch This Drone Taser a Guy Until He Collapses

Drones could deliver pizza—or 80,000 volts of electricity.

By Kyle Chayka

Player Exposes Magic: the Gathering for Everything It's Cracked Up to Be

These are cracks in their natural habitat

By Kyle Chayka

Papier-Mâché Pandas Are Taking Over the World

1600 miniature pandas fill Taipei with cute

By Kyle Chayka

Hipsters Love Monocles

As long as hipsters exist, they will love monocles.

By Kyle Chayka

Playing Tetris Will Make You Forget You’re Hungry

Video games replace the brain's wishful craving for food and cigarettes.

By Kyle Chayka

This App Can Help You Read Up to 1,000 Words a Minute

Could smartphones actually help our reading skills?

By Kyle Chayka

Now You Can Graffiti the Great Wall of China

You won't even get in trouble for it!

By Kyle Chayka

Major Bitcoin Exchange Goes Offline

Mt. Gox, a Tokyo-based exchange that was originally a place to trade playing cards, disappeared from the Internet after freezing all transactions, leaving Bitcoin owners wondering about their wealth and causing the currency's value to plummet

By Kyle Chayka

Here’s How to Predict the Weather Using Your Cat

Why should we trust meteorologists anymore?

By Kyle Chayka

Internet Trolls Are Actually Sadists, Study Finds

Trolls are susceptible to sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.

By Kyle Chayka
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