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vendredi 6 juin 2025, 22:12
A finger bone fragment, discovered in 2010 changed our understanding of human existence, The Secret World of Denisovans (August 2025), by Silvana Condemi and François Savatier, tells the how this tiny fossil revealed an entire branch of our family tree we never knew...
Science has discovered that pee is not sterile, and you ought not to drink it. This was a popular story in the Boy Scouts. If lost in the desert without water, drink your pee. The kind of stuff teens love to talk about, and probably made it into popular media like...
Chicago media ran stories today about a police officer there who was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect. They name the 36-year-old officer, a woman with a young daughter, who chased the suspect on foot. They quote a senior officer saying she was protecting...
A lawsuit filed last year against Denver's Purina pet food plant, alleging it smells terrible, was oddly dismissed and then refiled by new plaintiffs. There is no doubt the pet food plant stinks. What's odd is the voluntary dismissal by last year's plaintiffs, followed by...
WeatherStar is the technology the Weather Channel uses to produce its 'local on the 8s' weather forecasts. The creator of WeatherStar 4000+ was motivated by nostalgia and a predilection for weather to create a web-based emulator of the version used in the 90s. — Read the...
This ad seems sure to get under the Orange Chicken's skin. Trump's whipsawing economic policies are doing more to embarrass him than make America anything like 'great.' Having earned the nickname 'Taco,' for Trump always chickens out, as any country that pushes back on his...
The Tree Weta is an insect the size of a gerbil. It looks like a cricket, but in XXL. This nocturnal critter, native to New Zealand, is considered the heaviest insect on Earth. The Weta group of insects are relatives of crickets and grasshoppers. — Read the rest The post...
Give them an inch and they take a mile. Sonoma County authorized a drone surveillance program to weed out illegal cannabis farms. A lawsuit alleges the County is conducting warrantless searches for code violations and spying on residents. The North Bay county of Sonoma...
Recently, scientists observed a living tower of worms in nature for the first time. The footage shows an eerie white structure moving like a tentacle — this is actually thousands of nematodes working together to search for food. Nematodes, or roundworms, are microscopic...
Perhaps Moscow wants free Starlink? It certainly can't be for the awesome pickup truck designs. First deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Novikov has made it clear that should Elon need to flee the United States, Russia will provide...
Anyone who was around in the late 90s or early 2000s probably got at least one, or in my case, several, Big Mouth Billy Bass for the holidays. For those unfamiliar with the singing, motion-sensing, latex largemouth bass, behold. The singing fish was available in several...
HappyToast's animated electricity pole is made to look like it's playing jump rope with the other poles. Besides being a wonderful, surreal little video, there's something that commenters have noticed. This gif causes an auditory illusion for some people. Every time the pole ...
TL;DR: Just $89.99 (reg. $682) unlocks a photo editing suite that makes your pics look like they were taken by a pro with a degree in lighting theory. You know that feeling when you take a photo that's almost perfect, but it's missing something? — Read the rest The post For...
America's finest city has, at long last, been given detail and presence in Microsoft Flight Simulator, thanks to the work of Dfflyer. Compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024, the expansion pack includes 120 handcrafted buildings, 21 bridges, detailed...
There are various 'Yinz Binz' out in the hinterlands of Pittsburgh I'm eager to check out: warehouses with random bins of stuff unsold by or returned to retailers. Monetized hoarding. The proprietors buy the bins in bulk, not unlike storage unit auctions, with only a general ...
The Manx Catalog archives computer manuals, and there are a great many to be found there: '22165 manuals, 10104 of which are online, at 61 websites.' It's an archive of archives! Manx covers the following companies: 3Com Corporation, Abekas Video Systems, Inc. — Read the...
Wacom's updated Cintiq pen displays look more like tablets than ever, losing most of the bezel and much of the older models' thickness. There are three cuts: a 16-inch one for $700, a 24-inch one for $1300, and a 24-inch touchscreen variant for $1500. — Read the rest The...
Just when it looked like the markets had gotten used to Trump's endless servings of tariffs with chicken and were pleased to see Elon Musk return to 'work' at the companies he controls, Tesla stock is slumping again. Did something happen today? — Read the rest The post...
jeudi 5 juin 2025, 23:57
Elon Musk's cork finally blew, with a firehose of incendiary tweets spraying Donald Trump for hours this afternoon. 'Time to drop the really big bomb,' Musk fired on X at around 3:20 pm, adding, '@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. — Read the rest The post "Time to...
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has a spunky new artifact that's sure to give visitors a rise: a 7.9 inches, mint-condition 1830s condom featuring a naughty nun getting frisky with three clergymen. This luxury sheep-gut prophylactic is basically the 19th century equivalent of a...
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