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mercredi 13 novembre 2024, 13:31
Spend no more than 10 minutes sitting on a toilet, say doctors Farah Monzur, director of Long Island's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stony Brook Medicine and Lai Xue, a colorectal surgeon out of Dallas. One's buttocks are compressed by the seat's descending oval...
Anna Abalkina and Retraction Watch have begun tracking scientific journals which show signs of having been hijacked by frauds, mountebanks and whatnot: The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. Sometimes this is crudely accomplished by displacement, through replicas and ...
TL;DR: Transform your data by putting it into clean, easy-to-read diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2021 Pro, now on sale for $17.97 (reg. $249) until November 17. As much as you love how hilarious The Office's portrayal of #corporatelife is, one thing's clear: you definitely...
Usually it's a thief one might look out for when withdrawing cash from an ATM. But one man in India dealt with another kind of aggressive trespasser when he stepped into an ATM enclosure Monday morning, only to have his life threatened by a wild boar. — Read the rest The...
mardi 12 novembre 2024, 23:47
The Magic Circle is a renowned British organization for magicians, founded in 1905. Women were not allowed to join the Magic Circle for most of its history, until it lifted its ban in 1991. Now, reports Sky News, the Magic Circle is trying to locate Sophie Lloyd, who...
Gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto bounded through Super Nintendo World yesterday with the energy of someone half his 71 years, offering YouTube viewers an exclusive first look at the newest addition to Universal Studios Japan in Osaka: Donkey Kong Country, opening December 11,...
TL;DR: Start liking cooking when you use this Konig Kitchen Damascus 5-Piece Knife Set. Skip to checkout and get them for $74.97 (reg. $249). If you're like me, you spent years thinking you hated cooking, and that's fair. It's a ton of work slicing and dicing and prepping...
Kum & Go, the unfortunately (fortunately?) named gas station and convenience store is currently rebranding all of its locations. According to Maverik, which acquired Kum & Go last year, the reason is 'to unify our entire combined footprint under the Maverik brand.' — Read...
Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprungli has always charged premium prices for its self-described 'excellence' and 'finest ingredients' — but the company now says it was just kidding, after the discovery that its so-called fine ingredients allegedly includes heavy metals. The...
Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson presents us with an array of curious vintage photographs featuring questionable question marks. See 'em all at his latest Flashbak gallery: Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs ...
Dave Clifford, who lives in the Ilocos Sur province of the Philippines, was looking at video footage from his home security system 'as we've had a lot of cats trying to get at the birds in our aviary,' he said. In the below clip, you can see a stream of motorcycles go down...
Children at an Aberdeenshire, Scotland elementary school were freaked out when they spotted Pennywise the creepy clown from IT prowling around the schoolyard. According to Laurencekirk Primary School officials, it turned out not to be a real killer clown but rather one of...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is being rewarded for her loyalty to Donald Trump with a plumb role in his upcoming administration. He's appointed her to run the department of Homeland Security (DHS). The serial fabricator will oversee 240,000 people across various...
1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001 is a prime number. It's unusual for at least two reasons. First, it's a palindrome, so it reads the same backwards as forwards (not counting the commas). Second, it has a 666 in the middle, which is a number associated with the Mark ...
A mom in deep red Fannin County, Georgia was arrested two weeks ago and could face a year in jail — all because her son walked less than a mile into town by himself. He was days from turning 11. Brittany Patterson had been out shuttling his brother to a doctor's...
TL;DR: Save 40% on this inkless pen and multi-tool by heading directly to checkout before they sell out. What if you could write your name on the moon? Or pen a love letter on a submarine? Okay, maybe not those exact things, but this handy inkless pen that writes on almost...
Honoring life, explosives, and a rain of whale chunks large enough to smash a car, Florence, Oregon, reflects upon the time they blew up that whale! A holiday dedicated to learning from their mistakes, the residents of Florence, Oregon, gather to remember the fateful day...
Welcome to the cybernormal dystopia, nothing punk about it. 'Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It's perfectly legal,' writes Kristen V. Brown in The Atlantic:. An ALS specialist ordered Bill a DNA test. — Read the rest The post...
Still unable to deeply engage my mind in current events and unwilling to think about the state of the world, I've found this YouTube channel on Egypt's pyramids to be a wonderful distraction. History for Granite has become my go-to YouTube channel to zone out on for the last ...
Gamers, claimed by mainstream media to have broken hard to the right in last week's presidential elections, are now alarmed that the import tariffs proposed by their favored candidate will sail quickly into being with Republicans controlling the White House, both branches of ...
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