- newOld English word of the day
The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a manuscript illustration. The site's creator (or should it be wordwyrm?) Dr. Hana Videen frames the project around the fabulou…
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- newGet smarter on your downtime with lifetime documentary streaming for $130 during Deal Days
TL;DR: For $129.97 (reg. $999), you can get lifetime access to MagellanTV, an ad-free documentary streaming service with over 4,000 high-quality documentary movies and TV series from around the globe.Deal Days is Stack Social's answer to Prime Day…
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- newThis Deal Days discount gets you 6TB of secure cloud storage for $190
TL;DR: Get Drime's 6TB of lifetime encrypted cloud storage, compliance tracking, and collaboration tools for $189.97 (reg. $599) during Deal Days through June 28.Nobody ever deletes anything anymore. Screenshots from 2018. PDFs you'll definitely re…
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- newNew blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling
The lining of the Reflecting Pool at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial was painted blue to please Trump: a no-bid $14.7m contract that went to a company that had worked on one of his swimming pools. Within days of the pool being refilled, it was ful…
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- newCentralize essential accounting tasks with QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus for $300 during Deal Days
TL;DR: This 1-year Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus 2024 subscription for Windows gives you all the financial tools you need to manage your business in one place for just $299.99 (reg. $536). With Deal Days, the gifts keep coming, and this Quic…
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- newIn 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight
On the night of 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released between 100,000 and 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide in a single outgassing event. The cloud rose at nearly 100 km/h, then sank — carbon dioxide is 50 percent more dense than…
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- newThe ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine
According to the Bencao Gangmu, a 16th-century Chinese medical compendium, elderly men in Arabia would voluntarily mummify themselves in honey. The donor would stop eating all food except honey, bathing in it as well, "till after a month his excreta…
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- newCow chewing grass through a fish-eye lens becomes strangely addictive
Watching a cow eat grass probably sounds boring, but this video proves that it can be made into something fabulous. Thanks to the right angle and sounds, this cow video is addictive to watch. My only complaint is that it's not longer. — Read the re…
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- newChicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic
Severe storms in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood sent several pool chairs flying off a high-rise balcony and into the traffic below. The video of the incident shows the lightweight lounge chairs being pushed across a rooftop pool deck by powerful…
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- newHoneybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video
This sweet video shows a honeybee curled up inside of a flower bed. The timelapse shows the bee wrapped around the inner part of the flower, as the petals slowly close inward. I can't imagine a more enchanting place to lay down than inside the cozy b…
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