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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A study reveals that while levels of common contaminants are low, other elements are found in high concentrations in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine. A new study suggests that lithium ore and mining waste from a historic lithium mine west of Charlotte, North Caro … | Continue reading
The Evolution Continues. GlassFish, which used to be a popular application server, free to use and reliable, is evolving again. If you’ve been holding onto your old GlassFish instances, there’s good news—things have gotten a lot more exciting recently. Since we ... The post Glass … | Continue reading
JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, JavaScript is now also a trademark registered to Oracle. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
Today, we’re excited to share two free printable cut and paste worksheets that kids will love. These engaging activities encourage… The post Cut and Paste Worksheets For Kids of All Ages appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Understanding strace and its Origins A Look Back: strace and dtrace Originating from Sun Microsystems Technical Functioning of strace The Role of ptrace in strace Comparing with DTrace Practical Usage and Advantages Ease of Use and Accessibility Favored in Linux ... The post stra … | Continue reading
Ownership and control of social media platforms is a first-order concern for both domestic politics and international conflict. The most important battleground in the Russia-Ukraine war is elections in NATO member states. And there, Russia is clearly winning. Trump, obviously, bu … | Continue reading
The star of this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show was the Hyundai Ioniq 9, a rounded-off colossus of an EV that puts Hyundai’s signature EV styling on a three-row SUV cavernous enough to carry seven. I was reminded of two years ago, when Hyundai stole the L.A. show with a different E … | Continue reading
With each upgrade of the .NET platform, developers may decide whether to upgrade or wait until the rest of the ecosystem upgrades first. Here is my experience when I wanted to understand if it’s ok to bump up my projects to .NET 9 while some of the NuGet libraries I depend on are … | Continue reading
John Alfred Tinniswood (previously at Boing Boing) died Monday at 112. He was the world's oldest man. His family said Mr Tinniswood's final day was "surrounded by music and love". Mr Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK's oldes … | Continue reading
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