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vendredi 29 novembre 2024, 21:46
Although extremely rare, a Central California teacher has died of rabies after a wild bat bit her in a middle school classroom. The 60-year-old Fresno woman, Leah Seneng, found what appeared to be a lifeless bat while she was teaching her Byrant Middle School students back...
Drew Friedman' latest book, Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy, contains over 160 portraits of quirky, forgotten, and famous icons of American pop culture. I'm a longtime admirer of Drew's meticulous, expressive work, which captures the essence of the subject...
Allee Willis may be the most influential artist you've never heard of. A new documentary, The World According to Allee Willis, reveals a renaissance woman who blazed trails across music, art, and technology while fighting personal battles behind her flamboyant exterior. —...
Donald Trump had a seat at Elon Musk's Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving table last night, and as 'YMCA' blasted over the speakers, Trump patted the younger, richer billionaire on the back to get his attention. Musk finally acknowledged Trump, and then stole the show, waving his arms...
Occasionally, you hear stories about surgeons who leave sponges or surgical implements inside patients before sewing them up. Here's a similar tale involving a Qantas A380, which flew on several international trips with a 1.25 m nylon turning tool left inside an outboard...
A man riding a double-loop roller coaster that was about to take a steep drop heard a strange sound coming from his seat, only to realize his safety lap bar had unlatched. So, with no time to waste, he jumped out of his seat from the coaster's highest point — and survived, ...
Don't let your inability to draw well hold you back from drawing. The activity of drawing can 'reduce anxiety, elevate mood, improve quality of life and promote general creativity,' says Darren C Fisher, Lecturer in Animation at Swinburne University of Technology. — Read...
Today I enjoyed reading Don't F*ck With Scroll, a particular but cromulent criticism of a trend on the web that drives me nuts: taking scroll away from the reader. Let me scroll! Normally! 'Momentum scrolling plugins (example here), while marketed as enhancements, are a...
TL;DR: Tell your in-laws to pipe down in their native language with lifetime access to 14 different languages for 78% off through Boing Boing Shop. You know the best part of the holidays? Seeing family you haven't seen in a while. — Read the rest The post Learn their...
In this footage posted by Sports News, said to be recorded at 70,000 frames per second but played back at about 5 fps, a ball splats against a steel plate at 150 mph. That's quite a drive! I'm going to go out on a limb, though, and suggest that something is not quite...
As spotted in vending machines in Japan, the tiny Casio retro ring watch is coming to America! The Verge's Andrew Liszewski writes that it turned up on the company's U.S. website with a price tag—$120—and a December release date. We celebrate Casio Watch's 50th...
Denmark, roughly the area of Wisconsin, is to plant a billion trees, replacing 15 percent of the nation's farmland with forest. $6.1 billion was earmarked by legislators in compensation to the those whose property will become national parkland. Government figures report...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Nuisance litigation of the sort heralded by Cease 'n' Decist letters is on the rise, and I enjoyed reading Boondoggle and Doggle's (or rather Mark Chan and Adnan Aga's) amusing 'Continue and Persist'...
UFC strawweight Luana Pinheiro recently limped out the octagon after being elbowed in the anus during a fight—a move that would have been illegal until recently and which remains at the wrong end of sportsmanship. Healing is a slow process. — Read the rest The post UFC...
Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy, a study by Martin Qvarnström and others published in the journal Nature. —...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A discarded cigarette: what a perfectly French way to destroy centuries of French history. But Notre Dame was restored at staggering expense—the BBC reports €700m (about $750m) was spent—after the...
Candace Owens, an online influencer who graduated from standard right wingery to holocaust denial with some Hitler praise along the way, was denied entry to New Zealand. Officials cited her ban from Australia, what was due to her extremist positions—specifically 'remarks...
TL;DR: The first 100 customers can save 90% on Windows 11 Pro during this Black Friday sale — head directly to checkout. Everyone's talking about how AI is the future, but there's something they're not telling you. Instead of opening ChatGPT whenever you want to generate...
jeudi 28 novembre 2024, 23:00
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The U.S. healthcare system is ruthless and profit-seeking by design. That it's also infested with frauds and crooks is an example of why the freedom in free markets rarely extends to customers. Federal agents detained hospital chain CEO Ralph de la Torre last week, reports...
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