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lundi 27 janvier 2025, 21:41
An 'unprecedented' outbreak of tuberculosis has hit the state of Kansas, according to USA Today, making it 'the largest in recorded history in the United States.' Most of the cases have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County. 'Currently, Kansas has the largest...
DeepSeek is China's entrance to the top shelf of language models, and it is competitive with U.S. counterparts while reportedly being vastly more efficient to develop. U.S. AI stocks, including hardware provider NVidia, are 'plunging' as a result, reports CNN Business. —...
A MAGA official in Pennsylvania thought she had the same rights as billionaire Elon Musk — until she imitated his Nazi salute and was forced to resign from her job. 'Just checking in on my friends who are struggling this week,' Laura Smith — the Towamencin Township...
Diamonds may be forever, but the price is dropping fast. Naturally-formed diamonds are losing their value so quickly—26% less today in shops than two years ago—that one gemologist described them as a 'waste of money.' The fall is driven, among other things, by mass...
Over the weekend, Popkin here at Boing Boing posted about shaved cats that look adorable. After conducting further research into the matter, I have confirmed that the primary emotional mode of the shaved cat is in fact outrage. The articles of evidence follow below. — Read...
Pete Hegseth, Trump's brilliant Defense Secretary, has pinky-promised to stay totally sober during his tenure – but don't you dare ask what happens if he gets caught with a White Claw in the Situation Room! 'This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won't be a...
The Hubble Space Telescope got off to a rough start. When it launched in 1990, expectations were high, but a tiny mirror flaw caused the images it captured blurry. Dave Barry called it the 'Hubble Giant Orbiting Space Paperweight.' Despite capturing images better than...
First, former Gov. Kristi Noem stood up Vice President JD Vance, who sat around for 25 minutes waiting to swear in the new Homeland Security secretary before he gave up and left. Then, after finally breezing into the White House 40 minutes late, with no one to swear her in,...
Tiny plastic particles lodge in mouse brains and block blood vessels, scientists discovered using real-time imaging that revealed how these microplastics travel through the body. In a study published in Science Advances and reported in Nature, researchers used advanced...
[See update about Faraday pouches for blocking phones.] 'For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great ...
When Esther Schindler inherited five huge boxes of 10,000 family slides after her father's death, she embarked on a year-long project to save the family's visual history. As she scanned thousands of images dating back to her parents' 1941 engagement, patterns emerged about...
I was about ten years old when a horse fly bit me. I was on a camping trip. I saw the giant fly land on my leg. It went to work immediately. Before I even had a chance to brush it off, it ripped into my skin. — Read the rest The post Why a horse fly bite hurts so much more t...
When a woman checked into a hospital just north of Chicago last week, she expected to get a room. Instead, she was found on the roof, lying unconscious in the freezing cold. Sounding more like the beginning of a mystery novel rather than real life, 28-year-old Chelsea...
dimanche 26 janvier 2025, 16:08
I've never thought about a piece of sandwich bread being cut the long way before, but here's what it looks like. I didn't really think that a piece of bread could look awkward, but this slice proves me wrong. Somehow, it looks like its naked and embarrassed that we're all...
NASA is heading to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time for a panel about a new documentary. The NASA-produced film Planetary Defenders is about the Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The organization was featured in Netflix's too-real-to-be-funny Don't Look Up...
The Arizona Coyotes, previously known as the Phoenix Coyotes and the Winnipeg Jets before that, moved to Salt Lake City for the 2024-2025 NHL Season. The team is technically an expansion team, but that's a whole other thing. The team held an online fan vote to narrow down...
At some point, influencers started deluding themselves into thinking they should have any say on what their audiences put into their bodies. Mr. Beast's ill-fated burger chain was only the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately. It seems every YouTuber with a following and a...
Last week New Orleans (and much of the south) received record-breaking amounts of snow, with some areas of the city reporting up to a foot! This is a far cry from the half an inch the city received when it last snowed in 2004! — Read the rest The post Even record-breaking...
Elon Musk is having a busy week, which naturally means that the rest of us are having a shitty one. After giving the Nazi salute heard round the world and enjoying a warm reception in Berlin, Gruppenführer Musk has decided to double down with a surprise appearance at an...
In this sweet and funny video, someone's grandmother uses voice to text for the first time to send a message. Everything starts out smoothly until the woman begins narrating her inner thoughts out loud, which, to her surprise, begin appearing on her phone in front of her. —...
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