- newThis Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold
Harkening back to the good old days when Bub Rub and Lil' Sis were all the rage, this interview is pure gold. These two gentlemen may not like turtles, but they sure have their priorities in line. A day after Los Angeles' crumbling infrastructure wi…
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- newBrain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
Keith Thomas broke his neck diving into a pool in 2020 and was paralyzed from the chest down. Six years later, thanks to a set of brain implants that bypass his spinal injury, he can feed himself, drink from a cup, and feel the fur on his dog again,…
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- newYour brain can track two voices at the same time
You know the trick of picking one voice out of a crowded room — the "cocktail party" problem. A new study in PLOS Biology looks at the messier moment when you switch your attention from one talker to another, and finds the brain doesn't hand off cl…
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- newJD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts
JD Vance reinforced the stereotype that the U.S. Vice President does nothing by asserting that it is a great time to raise a newborn. Apparently, JD has cracked the code on modern parenting: be vice president, surround your family with taxpayer-funde…
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- newCNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed
CNN Business has produced a headline so pure, so direct, so violently inevitable, that no rewrite desk should be allowed within 500 feet of it: "Taco Bell has a diarrhea problem."The actual story is grim and gross: CNN reports that shredded iceberg…
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- newExplore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
The 1,024,000² 2b2t World Download Project is a public archive of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t, preserving roughly 13.7 TiB of compressed world data covering a million-by-million-block section of the server's Overworld, plus smaller captures of…
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- newIn 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union — when the safety mechanisms failed. He leaned over and put his head directly…
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- newAll Babbel language courses just dropped in this exclusive offer
TL;DR: Get a Babbel lifetime subscription covering all 14 languages for $159 (reg. $299) with code LEARN.Plenty of language apps will happily teach you a stockpile of nouns and verb tenses, then leave you frozen the moment a real person answers b…
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- newRemember Tara, the singing android that terrified the internet
In 2004, John Bergeron built an animatronic from about $2,000 in materials — a 5'10" metal skeleton with synthetic rubber skin, a wig, and women's clothing — and set out to market Tara the Android as "the world's first pop star android," complete…
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- newIn the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"
In March of the year 536, the sky over Constantinople went dark for a year-and-a-half. The Roman historian Procopius wrote that "the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse." The statesman Cass…
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