- newBefore refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics
Before refrigeration, keeping things cold meant waiting for winter, cutting up a frozen lake, packing it in sawdust, and hoping a lot of it survived the boat ride.Veritasium has a great video on Frederic Tudor, the Boston merchant who helped c…
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- newGrandpa Pudding Brains snoozes while New York boos and boos
Diaper Don went to Madison Square Garden expecting New York to love him, got booed on the Jumbotron, and then appeared to take the most expensive little courtside nap in America.The NapThe booingSo…Sleepy Joe was an insult, but Sleepy Don is gam…
- 1 hour ago 9 Jun 26, 10:46am -
- newNoted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president
Gregory Bovino, the trench-coated immigration goon whose public image already looks like authoritarian cosplay with a federal expense account, apparently thinks America needs more of him.Daily Kos reports that Bovino, formerly Trump's Border Patrol…
- 1 hour ago 9 Jun 26, 10:33am -
- newSam Bankman-Fried has found one more scam: clemency
Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted fraudster who made billions disappear in a crypto fog machine, would now like Donald Trump to help him launder the consequences.Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years for fraud and conspiracy after FTX collapsed into one…
- 2 hours ago 9 Jun 26, 10:18am -
- newPersona 6 officially revealed
Finally, the day has come when we can stop seeing Persona 5 cross over with every game under the sun. It's hard to pin down the identity of the Persona series properly, but to put it as succinctly as possible, I'd describe them as half monster battle…
- 18 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 6:21pm -
- newCrazy Taxi is back!
When Sega very boldly declared it would revive a few of its classic franchises from the Dreamcast era, I admittedly did not believe them. I'm pleased to admit I was wrong. It may be nostalgia, it may be a vice-Presidential candidate wistfully remembe…
- 18 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 6:19pm -
- newDOOM: The Dark Ages to get DLC starring shirtless Doomguy
Truly, my only complaint about Army of Darkness-style shooter DOOM: The Dark Ages is that Doomguy wore too many damn clothes. Apparently, someone at id Software had planted bugs in my house, because his boobs are all the way out in the game's newly a…
- 18 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 6:19pm -
- newHundreds of tiny medieval tunnels no one can explain
More than 700 medieval tunnels called Erdstall honeycomb the ground in Bavaria, with hundreds more across Austria and central Europe. They are tiny — about 1 to 1.4 meters high and no more than 60 centimeters wide — and connected by "Schlupf," sq…
- 19 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 4:50pm -
- newA tanker of molten sulphur vanished with 39 crew in 1963
On February 4, 1963, the SS Marine Sulphur Queen sent a routine position report from the Gulf of Mexico, about 200 miles west of the Florida Keys, and was never heard from again. The T2 tanker was carrying 15,260 tons of molten sulfur, kept liquid at…
- 19 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 4:42pm -
- newHe hired the world's best debunker to talk him out of UFOs, and it backfired
Jehan Azad couldn't stop believing the Navy's "tic tac" UFO sighting was real, and it was wrecking his peace of mind. So he tried to get talked out of it by the best skeptic he knew of: Peter Miller, who won $100,000 in a debate arguing that COVID di…
- 20 hours ago 8 Jun 26, 4:30pm -