- newDrew Friedman's new Mel Brooks portrait marks the comedian's 100th birthday
Drew Friedman has released a limited edition fine art print of Mel Brooks, hand-numbered and signed in a run of just 20, to mark Brooks's 100th birthday on June 28, 2026.Friedman's announcement recalls Brooks's career — starting at 14 as a Borscht…
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- newTwo-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice
About 650,000 American physicians — roughly two-thirds of the country's doctors — now use a chatbot called OpenEvidence to help decide how to treat their patients, the company told NBC News. In April alone, the service was queried during nearly 2…
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- newVulture vomit is the leading theory for Kentucky's 1876 meat shower
Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife in Bath County, Kentucky, was stirring a kettle of soap on her porch around 11 a.m. on March 3, 1876 when chunks of fresh meat began dropping out of a cloudless sky. By her own account, quoted in Wikipedia's writeup of th…
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- newTiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania
Someone has been folding 2-by-3-inch slips of paper into sealed packages of Lucky Charms, Lindt chocolate, Milk Duds, Tylenol, and Velveeta Skillets, and tying them in plastic bags to trees along Pennsylvania hiking trails. Each slip carries 19 lines…
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- newOn one night in 1888, tens of thousands of English sheep fled their fields at once
It was around 8 p.m. when, on a dark night in early November 1888, every sheep across roughly 200 square miles of Oxfordshire decided, all at once and for no apparent reason, to leave. Tens of thousands of them broke from their fields and pens and ra…
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- newThose 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews
The BBC's Human Planet showed a Korowai family in Papua climbing a bamboo ladder into a hut roughly 100 feet up in an ironwood tree, while the narrator declared height equals prestige in their culture. British tabloids later revealed the scene was s…
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- newMeta is tracking its employees' every mouse click — and they're mad
It's been a while since I had a good belly laugh: employees at Meta are having the vapors over the company monitoring their keystrokes and mouse movements. Imagine having your every move recorded! How fast you type or what else you look at on your la…
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- newEric Schmidt gets booed at University of Arizona commencement
Commencement! A time for students to reflect on their years of hard work. They've become an expert in their field or trade, and they've got the paperwork and the massive debt to prove it. To mark this important milestone in their lives, the institut…
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- newEarly 1900s Thermocap hair loss device looks like sci-fi medical tech gone wrong
This photo from the early 20th century shows what a hair loss treatment called the Thermocap looked like. This pseudoscientific gem was marketed towards men who were balding. The device consists of a tall metal hat that looks like something a Martian…
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- newThis $60 app scans, signs, redacts, and sorts paper from your phone
TL;DR: SwiftScan VIP is $59.99 (reg. $199.99) and turns an iPhone, iPad, or Android device into a mobile scanner for PDFs, JPEGs, OCR, signatures, redactions, and cloud uploads.Paper has a funny way of pretending it still runs things. Between a re…
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