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mercredi 21 mai 2025, 20:07
Somewhere in Oregon, a prosecutor is sitting in a shiny new office, surrounded by fancy drug-detecting gadgets that don't work, wondering why the state's addiction crisis isn't solving itself. As reported in The Guardian, several Oregon counties have taken $20 million meant...
Ordered not to communicate, the Centers for Disease Control isn't. Diseases, however, keep on diseasing. The CDC's communications people are being fired or simply told not to stop distributing Health Alerts and other newsletters critical to informing the public. NPR finds...
UPDATE [May 21, 2025]: According to Coinbase, Ed Suman was not among those affected by the recent breach of Coinbase's customer support system in India. Additionally, a spokesperson for Coinbase says Suman has not conducted transactions on Coinbase since 2022, predating the...
Oscar Mayer is racing six of its WienerMobiles against one another on the Indy 500 track. Two laps, five miles, six hot dogs, a whole lotta silly! After mistakenly rebranding the WienerMobile as the FrankMobile, Oscar Mayer is back to embracing the glizzy. — Read the rest ...
A Georgia woman is being forced to keep her brain-dead but also pregnant daughter alive on machines. The costs, emotionally and financially, are crippling. It seems the hospital isn't even being clear which of the many applicable Georgia laws restricting women, and their...
A Chinese printer manufacturer allowed one of its printer drivers to get infected with Bitcoin-stealing malware, resulting in the theft of $950,000 before the driver was updated. The malicious code contained a crypto-stealer that monitored users' clipboards for Bitcoin...
After former FBI director James Comey shared an inspirational photo of seashells arranged to say '8647,' a sniveling Donald Trump sicced the Secret Service on him. But that didn't stop the same thin-skinned president from posting a violent video of himself hitting a golf...
I'm from Louisiana, so my social media feeds have been filled with news about Nottoway Plantation—which was destroyed in a fire last week. Black Enterprise describes Nottoway as 'a monument to Southern grandeur built on the backs of enslaved Black people.' — Read the rest...
Minecraft might soon overtake DOOM for its sheer number of nonsensical ports onto every device under the sun. It's already been on the last three Nintendo consoles, including a chugging, lackluster 3DS version for some reason only Satoru Iwata knows, but apparently that...
About the only thing I remember about the 'How to Train Your Dragon' movie franchise from when I saw the first installment with my kids in 2010 is that I found it odd that there was a Viking village in which the adults spoke with Scottish accents and the kids spoke with...
I've come across a great resource for anyone who wants or needs easier recipes for home-cooked meals. Meet Carolyn, also known as 'Epicurious Expeditions' on social media, who writes accessible recipes specifically for people with disabilities. Some of her...
Remember this American Woodcock, the delightful little bird with an unflappable swagger? Well, if you liked its ridiculous dance moves—bobbing here, weaving there—you'll love the Wilson's Snipe, a slightly longer-legged relative with a similarly impressive jaunty...
A man walking in the snow faced a terrifying encounter with a massive polar bear. Moments after spotting each other, the bear charged. The man acted quickly, jumping onto a nearby snowmobile and speeding away as the bear pursued at full speed. — Read the rest The post Snowmo...
The Unfinished Projects Release Forms booklet provides slips (and carbon copies, for your or others' records) permitting one to emotionally let go of an incomplete project. [via Matt Round] Have you ever worked on a creative project for a long time, and realized you can't...
Image from Wikipedia The post Fur-bearing trout: the bizarre folklore fish covered in fur (and the weird truth behind it) appeared first on Boing Boing.
Watch a carnivorous plant devour a helpless little gummy bear in this timelapse video. The King Sundew (Drosera regia) plant in the video seems to eat a pretty decent amount of the gummy bear, but leaves the top half of it behind, looking liquified and gooey. — Read the rest...
The Super Nintendo World portal in Universal Orlando's new theme park Epic Universe is the only portal of the four (five, if you count the central hub, Celestial Park) that is essentially a dupe of an already existing area, although a plussed-up one. — Read the rest The...
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TL;DR: Save 50% on this self-meditation app that helps you relieve stress and unwind after long days. Created by award-winning hypnotherapist Darren Marks, the app mimics real-life sessions with guided meditations that target stress, confidence, sleep, and more Features...
A study published in Nature Astronomy posits that Jupiter was significantly larger earlier in its history and its more powerful magnetic field greatly influenced the formation of the solar system. 'Our ultimate goal is to understand where we come from, and pinning down the...
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