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At 30 years old Bryan Bishop’s life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was soaring to new heights. Then he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Suddenly Bryan’s promising future was looking at a troubling schedule of radiation and chemotherapy. But having found refuge in comedy, "Bald Bryan" recounts his alternately heartbreaking and hysterical experience of cancer treatment and recovery.

Adult film star Jeremy Ronning has been a staple in the industry for years thanks to his famously large unit. But as he gets older, it's getting harder and harder to keep it hard. During a long day of filming, a co-star offers him a supplement that instantly gets Jeremy energized to perform. But soon he realizes the supplement has a horrible side effect: each time he gets aroused, his unit gets smaller and his body more feminine. Unless he can find a way to change back, he could lose everything.

Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening audiobook, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth.

Force for evil. A little girl called Alice, a deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak. And she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath the ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries-old.

Every morning, Judy measures Stink, and it's always the same: 3 feet, 8 inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then one day, the ruler reads 3 feet, 7 and 3/4 inches! Can it be? Is Stink shrinking? Stink tries everything to look like he's growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and spiking his hair don't seem to be fooling anybody into thinking he's taller.

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Is there something peculiar going on with Oreos? Sue brought in a package of Oreos and when you twist it open, it looks like there is less cream than before. Also we decided that they are a little thinner and the cream diameter is tiny too. Can you tell we love our cookies?!

Zoom, the popular videoconferencing platform during the pandemic, has seen its growth slow down as more people return to the office and classroom. According to its latest earnings report, Zoom's revenue was up 54% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, but this was a deceleration from 355% growth in the same quarter last year. Zoom also issued a disappointing forecast for the next fiscal year, which was below analyst expectations. Zoom is now shifting its focus to the enterprise market and expanding its platform beyond meetings. Shrinkage in retail refers to loss of product from causes ...

Amanda Wolfe has perfected the art of shrinking. She installs special devices in a busy airport that can shrink people and transport them to her body in an instant. She finds this activity so arousing that she turns up the power, and now a whole city is whisked away, piece by piece, only to find itself on her massive flesh.