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Friday May 30, 2025. 07:41 PM
The United State Library of Congress has a collection of 11,000 of John Margolies's roadside America photographs featuring novelty architecture from 1969-2008. According to Bill Guerriero's excellent new Britannica article, Margolies (1940-2016) would ''rent the biggest,...
The story behind Mount Rushmore is more interesting than Mount Rushmore itself! This YouTube documentary is fascinating. I recall hearing bits and pieces of this story, along with various speculations about Gutzon Borglum, so this video helps tie it all together—gold...
Iowa Republican Joni Ernst thinks people can go without healthcare as we're all going to die eventually, anyway. Showing the empathy we've come to expect of a Republican Senator Joni Ernst pretty much told people to suck it up, when hearing complaints about cuts to...
In a situation familiar to female members of many species, female frogs' calls are rarely heard and, as a result, seldom studied. A team from the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil performed a meta-study on existing research on frog calls. — Read the rest The post Toxic...
'How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot?' asks Eliane Glaser in Aeon. — Read the rest The post Why every movie and TV show follows the sa...
Teradata has partnered with cloud-based data integration platform provider Fivetran to help joint enterprise customers bring their data stored in multiple locations to the former’s data analytics platform, VantageCloud, to centralize data and metadata for analytics and AI...
Image: Meta Meta is developing extended reality headsets tailored for military use, designed to enhance soldiers’ situational awareness on the battlefield. The devices are expected to support real-time threat detection — such as flagging approaching drones or highlighting...
This cool and spooky video shows what it looks like when a camera is dropped down 93 meters under the ice in Antarctica. PhD student Austin Carter conducted this experiment to collect ice that is estimated to be over 2 million years old. — Read the rest The post Eerie footag...
'The Games and Pleasures of Childhood' is a set of 50 engravings published in 1657 by French engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697). Some of the games depicted in the series are familiar. One drawing shows kids playing paddle ball; another shows four kids blowing...
Angular v20 is now available. The new version of Google’s web framework stabilizes APIs and features such as incremental hydration, promotes Zoneless (which removes ZoneJS as a dependency) to developer preview, improves debugging, and improves support for AI-powered...
The New York Times paints the picture of Elon Musk that Musk himself has shown the world: abusing drugs, questionable parenting, and abhorrent ethics. We've seen enough videos of a freaking out, twitching, oddly talking Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk. Social media is replete with...
The post-Phantom Menace attempts to turn Darth Maul into a Machiavellian schemer — instead of some demon-looking guy who shows up, snarls at Obi-Wan and gets sliced in half — are, I believe, as well-intentioned as they are unbelievable. Given that every ice cream maker...
A YouTuber named Steve bares his soul, recounting the sad tale of how he fell for a romance scam in the Philippines. As Steve walks through a jungle, he films himself explaining how a woman he fell in love with was a con artist who took advantage of his 'euphoria' to...
Every game under the sun seems to be hopping on the roguelike trend lately — God of War is doing it, Elden Ring is doing it, and now it's come for… Peggle? Streamer DougDoug, known for both his coding expertise and his frankly inadvisable levels of audience participation,...
What’s a company to do when it faces a multitude of existential crises and seems unable to regain control of the media message? It throws a few dead cats on the table to distract everybody. This aeons-old approach to public relations has recently been rechristened as...
France, maintaining character, has yet to ban outdoor smoking. But it's coming soon, officials there say, with one key exemption: café terrraces. 'Tobacco must disappear where there are children,' Catherine Vautrin said in an interview published by the regional...
The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world — the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support 2000 metric tons, or 4.5 million pounds, or about the weight of 1300 cars. ...
Yesterday, a new work by Banksy—a lighthouse formed by the shadow of a street bollard and the phrase 'I want to be what you saw in me'—was posted to the British artist/collective/persona's Instagram page. The hunt was on to find it; withing a day, it was tracked down to...
TL;DR: This Asus Chromebook CM30 is on sale for just $179.99 — that's 45% off the $329.99 regular price. The promise of Chromebooks. Feature-packed, durable, and go-anywhere There's a lot of good reasons to make this Chromebook part of your arsenal. — Read the rest The po...
The New York Times has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Amazon to provide its editorial content for use in the tech firm’s AI platforms. This is the major news outlet’s first licensing agreement focused on generative AI. The Times Chief Executive Meredith Kopit...
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