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mardi 16 décembre 2025, 20:19
A New York Times Magazine investigation traces Jeffrey Epstein's $600 million fortune to a simple con: convince rich men their finances were a disaster, then charge them to fix it. The great majority of his wealth — $490 million between 1999 and 2018 —came from fees, not ...
On October 20, 1986, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 was flying from Sverdlovsk to Grozny with a stopover in Kuibyshev. The flight was routine until the approach into Kuibyshev, when the pilot, Alexander Kliuyev, made a bet with his crew: he wagered he could land the aircraft using...
A federal judge has rejected Sarah Palin's request for a third trial in her libel lawsuit against the New York Times, effectively ending an eight-year legal battle that became a cause célèbre for media critics on the right. Judge Jed Rakoff also refused Palin's request...
On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California with late-stage cervical cancer and severe heart palpitations. Within minutes of staff drawing her blood, people started dropping. A nurse noticed an ammonia smell from the blood tube...
The hosts of the Daily Show all sat down in the same place to discuss the shocking trainwreck that was 2025, and we've still got two weeks to live through. Every day, the news gets worse, and TDS never runs out of material. — Read the rest The post The Daily Show recaps...
iPTF14hls is a star that refuses to follow the rules. Discovered in September 2014, it was supposed to be a typical supernova —explode once, dim in about 100 days, leave behind a neutron star or black hole. Instead, it kept exploding for over 1,000 days, fluctuating in...
As the Trump Administration lowers fuel-economy standards and encourages Americans to reconsider the station wagon, Ford has announced it will absorb a $19.5 billion hit to profits in an effort to move back in time. Ford Motor said Monday that it would scale back plans to...
Moe anthropomorphism is the Japanese art of turning absolutely anything — countries, diseases, operating systems, warships — into cute anime girls. For instance, there's an erotic game where you date home appliances, including a washing machine. The trend exploded...
In a stretch of gruesomely preventable disasters in the late 80s and early 90s, Cobalt 60, a highly radioactive isotope used in industrial radiography, cancer treatment, and sterilization of medical equipment, did none of those things and instead irradiated people,...
From 1867 to 1974, cities across America enforced what are now called 'ugly laws' — ordinances that made it illegal for anyone 'diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object' to appear in public. — Read the rest The...
TL;DR: Save on two laptops in one with a Refurbished Lenovo 300e Chromebook (2018) for just $79.99 (Reg. $284.99) We're all iPad kids in a way. Glued to multiple devices at once, it's difficult to tear our eyes from our various screens. — Read the rest The post One laptop,...
As holiday deliveries pile up, Alabama has decided the answer to stolen packages is not less inequality or actual economic support, but a new law that turns repeated package theft into a felony, carrying up to 10 years in prison. Nothing says 'community safety' like throwing ...
Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles blamed Elon Musk's Hitler fandom on drug use. Then Wiles said she didn't. Then the tape rolled. According to the New York Times' Peter Baker, Wiles characterized Musk's behavior as irrational, brought up his drug use, and described being...
OpenAI chief Sam Altman recently said he cannot imagine raising a newborn without AI. Coincidentally or perhaps not at all coincidentally, his company is now preparing to launch an 'adult mode' for ChatGPT that allows erotic conversations. Yep, the same AI platform...
U.S. President Donald Trump is suing the British Broadcasting Corporation in Florida, demanding $5bn for editing audio of his Jan 6 speech in a documentary to make it appear his 'fight like hell' statement followed immediately after telling his supporters to march on the...
Back in 2011, I spent serious money on a Sony Xperia Play smartphone. On paper, it should have been perfect for gamers. The Xperia Play was zippy (by 2011 standards), ran Android Honeycomb, and featured a slide-out gamepad for mobile gaming. — Read the rest The post Ayaneo...
I've rarely seen anything more relatable than this Golden Retriever mix named Mack tackling the 'weave poles,' a staple obstacle in dog agility courses. As Carson Agility explains, weave poles are among the most challenging obstacles in agility courses, and require the...
Research from the RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery) Consortium that was recently published in JAMA Network Open revealed that many folks who catch and survive COVID-19 have an impaired sense of smell, even years after infection, but may not know it. — Read...
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and skydiver Gabriel Brown teamed up to create a breathtaking photograph of a skydiver falling across the face of the sun. The duo conceived the idea earlier this year during a skydiving meet-up, where they discussed the technical challenges...
In Burlington, Vermont, a filing cabinet towers above the treetops. This public sculpture sits in a Flynn Avenue parking lot, created by artist Bren Alvarez in 2002. It's a metaphor for administrative overload — and holds the title of world's tallest filing cabinet. — Read...
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