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Tuesday February 25, 2025. 02:07 PM
The number of artificial satellites orbiting the Earth has increased exponentially in recent years, from under 1000 in 2010 to over 11,000 today. As the amount of traffic in orbit has increased, so has the risk of collision. Collisions are expensive and create even more...
In response to Elon Musk's email demanding U.S. federal workers to submit a list of five things they accomplished last week, one federal agency sent its employees an ominous warning: Assume that your answers will fall into the wrong hands. '[T]here is no impact to your...
If you've ever been poked by a Cholla Cactus, you may have gotten yourself into an even stickier situation by trying to pull the cactus piece directly out of your skin. I've been in this situation myself many years ago, and still have scars today from where the cactus spines ...
In North Carolina, you can visit a former Shell Gas Station from back in the day that is shaped like a shell. This Shell Service Station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was built in 1930 as a way to boost brand recognition in the area. — Read the rest The post Visit a hist...
Bracket City is a fun word puzzle game where you need to solve nested brackets from the innermost pairs outward. Here's how to play: Start with the innermost brackets […] and solve those first Work your way outward, using the solved inner portions to help understand the...
Things are looking up in Europe for electric car makers. EV sales jumped 37% in January. But for some reason, Europeans aren't buying Teslas as much as they used to. In fact, Tesla sales dropped 45% last month in Europe. 'The Elon Musk-led company registered only 9,945 cars...
A Delta Air Lines flight flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina was forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport yesterday morning after a mysterious haze filled the plane. Footage captured by one of the 94 passengers shows a thick...
Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, successfully projected her fabricated reality into others' minds for years. It's easy to get people to believe in something if they think it will make them rich. As soon as it became clear there was no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, ...
TL;DR: Give your PC a boost with CCleaner Pro, now $14.99 for three PCs. There's nothing like a slow computer to make you want to quit your job and flee to the woods. Good thing you don't have to be a member of the Geek Squad to keep your PC running fast. — Read the rest ...
The Office of the Special Counsel has found DOGE's firings illegal, specifically regarding the termination of six federal employees, and it appears the judgment will be much wider reaching. Nothing is shocking about the OSC finding Elon's running roughshod over the US...
Monday February 24, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Save extra on lifetime access to Beelingual with code BEELEARN5, the language learning app that helps you learn a new language through reading. As much as we'd like to deny it, Americans have earned worldwide recognition for being bad travelers and (generally)...
Convicted felon #47 and his unconstitutional Co-President Leon seem hell-bent on burning the whole thing down. Mocking the federal workforce is not something you ever expect from the President of the United States, even one who has supplicated himself to Russia and allowed a ...
A woman in China had lost quite a few contact lenses in the last few months, and was shocked when they finally turned up — behind her left eyeball. The 33-year-old patient, referred to as Mrs. A., was getting plastic surgery in Beijing to add volume behind her eye —...
French President Macron has visibly confused convicted felon #47 in discussing the law as something one abides by. President Trump looked like a complete buffoon as President Macron explained to him how the war in Ukraine is being financed, who the aggressor is, and who...
For three decades, Erowid has been the most important clearinghouse of drug information on the Internet. Among other indispensable resources, the site has a collection of around 40,000 'experience reports' submitted by users (heh, heh) documenting what happened to them while ...
I liked Andor a lot for the serious and understated feel it established as it gathered steam. Except for the enormous budget, it felt almost like something that might have been cooked up in the 1970s if the original movie led not to sequels but to a BBC kitchen sink drama,...
Black rhinos are known for their 'nervous temperaments' and will charge any person or animal that it perceives to be a threat. So it made for a heartwarming video when a horse named Magnum ran into a wild black rhino on a trail in South Africa, and rather than either the...
If you happen to be in Australia or New Guinea and encounter a massive black bird stomping around on two feet, beware. Known as 'the world's most dangerous bird,' cassowaries can be as much as six feet tall and weigh more than 150 pounds. — Read the rest The post If you run...
iFixit reports that every U.S. state legislature has introduced a Right to Repair law requiring manufacturers to allow users to legally repair their own equipment and to provide at least some level of access to the instructions and parts that make it feasible. — Read the...
Nearly every book lover fantasizes about having a library in their home that is worthy of the ultimate bibliophile accoutrement: a library ladder. This architectural accessory—particularly one that rolls on rails—is not just a practical tool for accessing high shelves,...
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