The Diamond Hill is Al Shalliker condensing that ephemerality to its purest form, through delicate songwriting and laying it bare like an open book. And it's a pleasure to read it. | Continue reading
A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them. How’s the country doing, overall? Is the economy booming or busting? Is crime climbing or dropping? Anyone can, of course, r … | Continue reading
In 1936, Georgia's Oglethorpe University president Dr. Thornwell Jacobs initiated the creation of the Crypt of Civilization, the world's oldest and largest time capsule. Located in Atlanta's Phoebe Hearst Hall, the vault was sealed on May 28, 1940, with instructions to remain uno … | Continue reading
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Enthusiastic theatergoer and proud Congressperson from the State of Colorado Lauren Boebert has removed her "America First pep talks" and offerings from Cameo. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My money is on fear of an Ethics investigation, but it is al … | Continue reading
The AI-RACS system, developed by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers, automates the isolation of aluminum-tolerant microorganisms, advancing microbial research through high-throughput workflows. Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and … | Continue reading
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for the country's obesity rates, on the basis that the lack of spiritual nourishment leads people to binge eat. The obvious projection—Boris being an overweight atheist or agnostic with a history of briefly-hel … | Continue reading
One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik found himself so bored that he took a coin out of his pocket and began spinning it atop the table. In a testament to the eternal paradox of boredom and wonder as two sides of the s … | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! On November 16, neo-Nazi demonstrators who marched through Columbus's Short North area were shocked that people didn't roll out the welcome mat for their swastika-laden parade through the Short North. — Read the rest The … | Continue reading
On November 16, 1974, a group of scientists sent a message to the stars, with the hope that someone out there might be listening. They used the 1,000-foot Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, constructed a decade earlier. Today, the Arecibo Message is still on its way to the star cl … | Continue reading
From Costco, a children’s toolkit with a picture of exactly one child: A closer look at the future member of America’s tool-using working class: | Continue reading
An album that openly deals with remembrance, loss, and change, It Was Here He Received His Only Formal Education features some of The Muster Point Project's best work yet. | Continue reading
After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new organ … | Continue reading
A man in South Korea is off to jail after gaining weight to avoid being drafted into the military. The man, not named in reports, gained 44 pounds when his number came up. This placed him in a category that allowed him to do the national service required of young people in a comm … | Continue reading
In reply to Kann man die Twitter-Uhr zurückstellen? Zum Bluesky-Hype im österreichischen Journalismus by Heinz Wittenbrink Du hast denke ich recht Heinz das der Umzug von Journalisten in Richtung Bluesky eine verpasste Chance ist. Aber nicht nur für die Journalisten selbst als in … | Continue reading
According to a new study, taking a mid-day walk or doing household chores could enhance cognitive processing speed, making it comparable to being four years younger. Exercise is known to enhance brain health and lower the long-term risk of cognitive decline and dementia. However, … | Continue reading
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the next U.S. health secretary, if Donald Trump has his way — extolls the virtues of heroin as if he were peddling a brain-boosting supplement on QVC. "I was at the bottom of my class," he confessed on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast a few months ago, before T … | Continue reading
Malignancies, car crashes Power’s decisions rash Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles Innocent lives stifled Spouses swif … | Continue reading
AI-first IDEs like Cursor, WindSurf, Zed and others, are challenging Visual Studio Code’s dominance. What’s making devs switch over? | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Yesterday a redditor named joshcam posted a photo of a coin cell battery with purple colored dots arranged in three concentric semicircles. They posted: To the naked eye, these dots are an iridescent, deep purple, the ki … | Continue reading
The now-scrapped 'Project Archipelago' would have turned Rebellion's stealth franchise into a multiplayer shooter. | Continue reading
Donald Trump believes that tariffs have almost magical power to bring prosperity; as he said last month, “To me, the world’s most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariffs. It’s my favorite word.” In case anyone doubted his sincerity, before Thanksgiving he announced his intent … | Continue reading
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Enough shoes went missing from a kindergarten in Japan's Fukuoka prefecture that staff at the school set up a video camera to see who was taking them. The culprit was soon revealed: a weasel. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Footage exposes kindergarten … | Continue reading
Our family broke down and got a stinkin’ puppy. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
“About 1 second remaining” is the new beachball spinner. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
The fight to capture ex-X users heats up, as Meta, the sleeping giant, wakes up and realises that it has a blue butterfly problem… | Continue reading
Relying on a chart from USA Today and a Reader's Digest article on weird things the government spends money on, Elon Musk's analysis can only be intended to distract. Either corporations can pay their fair share, or we can start cutting the military budget. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Digital hardcore duo Machine Girl, with the late-October release of their new album MG Ultra still echoing, is making heir way across the United States. At Saturday's San Francisco show, the packed crowd was eager to dan … | Continue reading
Description of the base structure, modules and functions of a self-made Unity template project which could be run on many different platforms (PC, Web, Mobile). | Continue reading
Folks with limited mobility or those who just like more ride stability could find new freedom by sliding onto the comfort seat of an electric trike. Startup Meet One Trike has followed the launch of a folding electric trike in October with a dual-motor model called the Tour. Cont … | Continue reading
The following is excerpted from “Ingenious Mechanicks,” by Christopher Schwarz. This book is a journey into the past. It takes the reader from Pompeii, which features the oldest image of a Western bench, to a Roman fort in Germany to inspect the oldest surviving workbench, and fi … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly newsletter, Hey There, It’s Amanda, packed with food, travel, and shopping tips, Food52 doings, and other matters that catch her eye. Get inspired—sign up here for her emails. Photo by Julia Gartland Something … | Continue reading
Engineers took to a competition pool to test robotic prototypes for an ambitious mission concept—a swarm of underwater explorers seeking signs of life on alien ocean worlds. NASA’s upcoming missions to Europa will deploy advanced robots to probe its icy oceans for life. The robot … | Continue reading
As if travel during Thanksgiving week wasn't hectic enough, planes collided at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday — not once but twice. First, at around 11:00 a.m., an American Airlines flight that had just landed from London got too close to a Frontier Airlines fligh … | Continue reading
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I recently shared that I was diagnosed with ADHD. I write these words 12 days into medication and holy shit I feel totally transformed. The stuck, scrambly feelings and frustration have nearly evaporated. I am firing on all cylinders, which […] | Continue reading
Some of the best advice I ever received was an admonition against burning bridges. An old co-worker told me that when I was getting ready to leave a job at which I was unhappy. The immature side of me wanted to leave in a blaze of glory, letting everyone know what I thought of th … | Continue reading
Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear to improve most children's mental health, but they may still enjoy it | Continue reading
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Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest | Continue reading
LTB's evocative vocals sing of the perfect mystique of a person he longs to connect with. | Continue reading
For most of human history, we’ve lived in the shadow of the gods. Every century before ours was a far, far more religious one. People would pray daily to divinities that were never far away. They would see the divine in everything. Gods made the world, and that made the world mea … | Continue reading
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