- newMaryland the first state to regulate grocery surveillance pricing
Surveillance pricing is when a retailer sets the price of something based on what they know about you: your address, your income, your interests, your 'demographic'. Lawmakers in Maryland made it the first state to "ban" the practice this week, thoug…
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- newLoveland Frogman could become Ohio's official state cryptid
The Loveland Frogman is a 4-foot-tall, bipedal frog turning up in Ohio folklore since the 1950s. And if a bill recently introduced to the legislature there passes, he'll become Ohio's official state cryptid. But if there is doubt as to the creature's…
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- newWoman refused to end call for plane safety instructions
Shannon Marie Harris of Tyrone, Georgia, was charged with trespassing after the plane she was on had to return to the gate because she refused to end her phone call. This is according to authorities in Miami, where the jet was delayed for an hour—a…
- 11 hours ago 29 Apr 26, 6:55pm -
- newXOXO festival archived online
XOXO was a festival for internet artists and creators hosted by Andy McMilland and Andy Baio, held in Portland throughout the 2010s and again in 2014. After more than a decade, it offers "one last thing before we go"—XOXO Explore, a complete archi…
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- newThis British family of 8 disappeared into ISIS territory in October 2015 and have never been found
A week before Farzana Ameen disappeared from Bradford, England in October 2015, she flew to Pakistan, left her bedridden mother with relatives there, and came back. Then she boarded a one-way flight to Turkey with her husband Imran and their five chi…
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- newThis 2-day sale on Sam's Club Plus access is worth it for the members-only gas prices alone
TL;DR: Pay $60 (usually $110) for two days only, get a year of Sam's Club Plus perks, and stop overpaying for stuff you buy anyway.Let's not overcomplicate things. If you're already buying groceries, household stuff, and random must-have items, t…
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- newScientists found ice with a 304-molecule repeating pattern
Ice-9, in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, is a fictional polymorph of water that stays solid at room temperature and converts every drop it touches into more of itself. Real ice doesn't work that way, but the underlying idea — that water takes radically…
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- newAntarctic detector captured 13 radio pulses from cosmic rays in ice
Neutrinos pass through the entire planet without stopping. They travel billions of light-years from colliding black holes and exploding stars without being absorbed or deflected, arriving intact and pointing straight back at their source. But catchin…
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- newResearchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930
What are the proper rules of etiquette for a gentleman when calling upon a lady at her home? And what are the rules for leaving calling cards?A gentleman should call between the hours of two and six in the afternoon, on week days, and not later tha…
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- newCaptain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota. Named for the artillery shells he'd heard in France, it ran until 1936 and was one of the most popular adult-hu…
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