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Wednesday June 11, 2025. 06:32 PM
This vintage brain teaser posted to Futility Closet uses geometry to illustrate how wealthy individuals can manipulate access to shared resources. Can you solve it? 'Suppose there was a pond, around which four poor men built their houses,' reads the setup, accompanied by a...
On a quiet afternoon in 1954, Ann Hodge was doing what any sensible Alabamian would do – taking a nap. Then space decided to wake her up. An 8.5-pound meteorite smashed through her Sylacauga roof, pinballed off her radio, and slammed into her arm and hip. — Read the rest ...
Here's a grim reminder about nasal irrigation safety: a 71-year-old Texas woman is dead after using RV campground tap water in her sinus rinse device, reports CBS News. The CDC reports she contracted Naegleria fowleri — the notorious 'brain-eating amoeba' — which caused...
The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen is a maker space for Rice University's engineering, computer science, and mathematics students. Grant Belton and AJ Price asked the engineers for help when their dog, Kunde, lost his sight due to glaucoma. Most methods, like the 'halo'...
It's no secret that cruise ships and poop go hand in hand, like peanut butter and jelly and pretty much any other famous pairing. In fact, Travel and Leisure reports that just in the first half of 2025, the CDC has reported 16 separate gastrointestinal outbreaks on cruise...
The 'Curse of the Ninth' haunts classical music: write nine symphonies and die before your tenth. And some of history's greatest composers took this deadly seriously. Gustav Mahler was so spooked he tried to cheat death through creative accounting. — Read the rest The post T...
If there's one thing the venerable Yakuza/Like a Dragon series is known for, it's experimentation. RGG Studio has been putting out these games at a decent clip for twenty years now, and it's a testament to their efficiency that each title manages to put a fresh twist on the...
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TL;DR: Don't blow your budget—this refurbished MacBook Air gives you 12-hour battery life, 128GB storage, and a sleek design for just $199.97. Some laptops are built to live neatly on a desk. This one was built to go places. The refurbished Apple MacBook Air 13.3″ is the ...
After the election of a new president who campaigned on improving relations with the north, South Korea's propaganda-blasting loudspeakers on the border have fallen quiet. They were turned on again only recently, according to reports, after North Korea began flying thousands ...
If it were just the online gambling they decided to take a stand against, one might hand the Southern Baptists a broken clock credit. But their disdain is hardly principled—they want to be their congregants' only flutter—and the other things on the list are gay marriage, ...
After leaving his vague but powerful White House role last week, Elon Musk went on an online tear, insinuating that President Donald Trump was a pedophile, attacking his policies and threatening to cut off access to the International Space Station. — Read the rest The post M...
A television commercial for Twix chocolate bars was banned in Britain after regulators held that its depiction of a car chase 'encouraged' unsafe driving. The ad shows a Twix-eating driver recklessly chasing another car and crashing so that the two caramel-colored vehicles...
California Governor Gavin Newsom just won the internet by turning President Trump's stern warning about Los Angeles into a Star Wars parody. Here's the video, where you can hear a dramatic reading of Trump's Truth Social post about 'liberating' LA from migrants, spoken in...
Tuesday June 10, 2025. 11:00 PM
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I can't stop watching these super sweet videos of a woman who plays piano for her adorable, fluffy, tan and white guinea pig, who loves classical piano music. The pianist lives in Paris and, lucky for us, she's been capturing the precious moments she spends with her little...
Everyone knows that cat videos are the best content on the internet. I mean, who doesn't love an adorable feline doing its adorable thang? I'm going to propose a close second, though. While not *quite* as perfect as a video of *actual* cats meowing, this video of two human...
Watch a high pressure washer (10,000 PSI) vs various fruits. Spoiler alert: the pressure washer wins. See a banana, watermelon, apple, and more get chopped into pieces by the washer. Not only does the pressure washer slice the fruit into pieces, but it does it almost as...
Frank Frazetta's original cover art for Famous Funnies #214 is available for the first time ever. This 1954 Buck Rogers illustration is widely considered one of the greatest comic book covers ever created, and it's already commanding a price tag of $432,000 (including...
Donald Trump says the United States should do away with FEMA, and that if a governor can't help their state after a natural disaster without asking for federal funds, 'they shouldn't be governor.' 'We want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level,...
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