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vendredi 30 mai 2025, 20:15
Guillermo del Toro has been pretty vocal on social media about his love of Toronto over the past few years. Having shot The Shape of Water and, most recently, Frankenstein, in and around Toronto, he's become something of a fixture in the city's downtown core. — Read the rest...
An 88-year-old temple of scientific wonders and glorious oddities is fighting for survival, and they're asking the community of 'Surpies' who love them to help keep the lights on. American Science & Surplus — that magical emporium where you might find mule-branding kits...
As we work half-assed with one hand tied behind our backs on not killing the planet, solar power has become an important part of energy infrastructure solutions around the world. You'll find panels doing their photovoltaic thing on the rooftops of houses and bolted to the...
The United State Library of Congress has a collection of 11,000 of John Margolies's roadside America photographs featuring novelty architecture from 1969-2008. According to Bill Guerriero's excellent new Britannica article, Margolies (1940-2016) would ''rent the biggest,...
The story behind Mount Rushmore is more interesting than Mount Rushmore itself! This YouTube documentary is fascinating. I recall hearing bits and pieces of this story, along with various speculations about Gutzon Borglum, so this video helps tie it all together—gold...
Iowa Republican Joni Ernst thinks people can go without healthcare as we're all going to die eventually, anyway. Showing the empathy we've come to expect of a Republican Senator Joni Ernst pretty much told people to suck it up, when hearing complaints about cuts to...
In a situation familiar to female members of many species, female frogs' calls are rarely heard and, as a result, seldom studied. A team from the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil performed a meta-study on existing research on frog calls. — Read the rest The post Toxic...
'How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot?' asks Eliane Glaser in Aeon. — Read the rest The post Why every movie and TV show follows the sa...
This cool and spooky video shows what it looks like when a camera is dropped down 93 meters under the ice in Antarctica. PhD student Austin Carter conducted this experiment to collect ice that is estimated to be over 2 million years old. — Read the rest The post Eerie footag...
'The Games and Pleasures of Childhood' is a set of 50 engravings published in 1657 by French engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697). Some of the games depicted in the series are familiar. One drawing shows kids playing paddle ball; another shows four kids blowing...
The New York Times paints the picture of Elon Musk that Musk himself has shown the world: abusing drugs, questionable parenting, and abhorrent ethics. We've seen enough videos of a freaking out, twitching, oddly talking Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk. Social media is replete with...
The post-Phantom Menace attempts to turn Darth Maul into a Machiavellian schemer — instead of some demon-looking guy who shows up, snarls at Obi-Wan and gets sliced in half — are, I believe, as well-intentioned as they are unbelievable. Given that every ice cream maker...
A YouTuber named Steve bares his soul, recounting the sad tale of how he fell for a romance scam in the Philippines. As Steve walks through a jungle, he films himself explaining how a woman he fell in love with was a con artist who took advantage of his 'euphoria' to...
Every game under the sun seems to be hopping on the roguelike trend lately — God of War is doing it, Elden Ring is doing it, and now it's come for… Peggle? Streamer DougDoug, known for both his coding expertise and his frankly inadvisable levels of audience participation,...
France, maintaining character, has yet to ban outdoor smoking. But it's coming soon, officials there say, with one key exemption: café terrraces. 'Tobacco must disappear where there are children,' Catherine Vautrin said in an interview published by the regional...
The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world — the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support 2000 metric tons, or 4.5 million pounds, or about the weight of 1300 cars. ...
Yesterday, a new work by Banksy—a lighthouse formed by the shadow of a street bollard and the phrase 'I want to be what you saw in me'—was posted to the British artist/collective/persona's Instagram page. The hunt was on to find it; withing a day, it was tracked down to...
TL;DR: This Asus Chromebook CM30 is on sale for just $179.99 — that's 45% off the $329.99 regular price. The promise of Chromebooks. Feature-packed, durable, and go-anywhere There's a lot of good reasons to make this Chromebook part of your arsenal. — Read the rest The po...
An intellectual property battle between two Clean Girl influencers is over, per a filing by one of the parties. Both women reviewed identical junk from Amazon in their identical off-white minimalist homes: an advertant image of gentility sold to a declining middle class...
Strip Mall is a short story by Leigh Alexander (previously) about a small town's run-down shopping drag, told entirely through Yelp reviews. There's the praise and the angry rambling you'd expect to read about venues in a deteriorating mall—and then there's something else. ...
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