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Monday April 7, 2025. 03:33 PM
A surgeon in Queensland, Australia, was fined $10,000 for taking and sharing a photograph of a patient's penis. The penis was remarkable for having a swastika tattooed on it and being attached to a patient injured when a bomb he was constructing went off. — Read the rest ...
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Sunday April 6, 2025. 09:00 PM
TL;DR: These Double Barrel 720p Digital Night Vision Binoculars give a whole new meaning to the word nightlife, and now they're $104.97 (reg. $297) through April 27. Want to see what happens after dark? Thanks to technology, we can now see the world at night with these Doubl...
TL;DR: Want to see your favorite animals—or even UFOs? Get these night vision binoculars for only $89.97 (reg. $169). Look there! Was that weird thing that just skirted across the night sky a UFO? Maybe it was, but you'll never know for sure if you're using your eyes to...
Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was alive back then and saw this 'witness sketch', I'd likely never have stepped...
This pencil sharpener from the 1890s looks like it works better than any of the sharpeners I own. Finding the right pencil sharpener has been a lifelong struggle for me. As someone who enjoys sketching, I need to be able to re-sharpen my pencil often, but it's difficult for...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 09:00 PM
TL;DR: Save 30% on the Tittle golf swing trainer, which offers instant, real-time feedback on your golf technique so you can improve. Golf training: With the Tittle swing trainer, you can refine your swing mechanics, driving and putting aim, and so much more to improve...
Watch someone climb a giant stack of crates at a carnival in this daring challenge. Players get hooked up on a harness in this game, and must stack as many crates as they can. The crates are handed to them in the air on a pole, and they must stack the new crate while...
I've never spent much time in the Midwest, so when a friend from Minneapolis recently sent me a video highlighting this year's 'All Hockey Hair Team,' I was confused—and intrigued. I had never heard of the All Hockey Hair Team, but now that I've seen the video and learned...
After the recent, devastating fires in Los Angeles, a new danger is worrying scientists. The threat of mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases is on the rise. Swimming pools left behind in the fires have become potential breeding grounds for dangerous mosquitos, and leaving...
For over forty years, astronomers have been baffled by X-rays from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula. A white dwarf is the remnant of a star that has shed its outer layers to form a nebula. They do not ordinarily emit X-rays, but observations by Chandra and...
To say people aren't exactly thrilled with Nintendo right now would be an understatement. The excitement of our first extended look at the Switch 2 was tempered heavily by the price tag attached: $450 for the console itself is rough as it is, but they also made the...
The next DOOM game is looming on the horizon, but you have to salute those still looking back to 1995. 'DOOM can run on everything' has been a meme longer than I've been alive, but I promise that the concoctions they're cooking up in the scarily dedicated Will It Run DOOM? —...
Well folks, it's 2025 and while Vice President JD Vance is busy trying to Make America Straight Again, actual scientists just dropped a fascinating study showing that psychedelics are basically Cupid's little helpers. A new paper in The Journal of Sex Research (which, yes,...
Five nurses working in the same maternity wing at a Massachusetts hospital were all diagnosed with brain tumors. Coincidence? Apparently that's what the hospital wants them to believe. Hospital officials are investigating the 5th floor of Mass General Brigham's...
TL;DR: Keep track of your stuff with this Slim GPS Tracker Card, now available in a three-pack for just $64.99 (reg. $105). Sick of losing your stuff? The Slim GPS Tracker Card is easy to slide in and enjoy real-time monitoring of your items — from wallets to luggage to...
Friday April 4, 2025. 09:05 PM
Remember those adorable photos of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk swooning like excited schoolboys behind Trump at his inauguration? And remember when Bezos said, 'I am very optimistic that President Trump is serious about this regulatory agenda'? (Translation:...
Elon Musk thinks he can modernize Social Security's 60-million-line COBOL codebase in just a few months. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything that keeps 73 million Americans' benefits flowing. As reported in Computerworld, Musk's fake 'Department of Government...
Nintendo just hit pause on Switch 2 pre-orders thanks to Trump's tariff tantrum. The Switch 2's $449.99 price tag was already making wallets cry. But now Trump's decided to slap a whopping 46% tariff on Vietnam (where Nintendo makes some of its hardware) and 34% on China. —...
Donald Trump ditched today's dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania because the president faced a more urgent matter — as in a golf tournament he couldn't pass up. And it makes sense, being that Trump did not even know ...
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