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Tuesday September 2, 2025. 05:37 PM
In Of Floating Isles (September 2, 2025), Kawika Guillermo masterfully his lifelong relationship with video games with reflections on identity, loss, and belonging. Through vignettes spanning childhood to adulthood, Guillermo explores how games served as both escape and...
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng once attempted to learn Russian, struggling with a particularly difficult letter. щ. She says. 'the session with my teacher went something like this' Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes!Me: shTeacher: noMe: shTeacher: yes! —...
Seeing screenshots of Blocky World (playable in-browser on Itch.io) made clear what it is—a Minecraft clone with a spherical world—but did not prepare me for the experience of being on a spherical voxel planet. For starters, the curvature of the world is quite alarming...
The Atlas of Space shows one star, eight planets, ten dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, spacecraft and trans-Neptunian objects. All in slowly-orbiting 3D. Clicking on these celestial objects brings up a detailed encyclopedia entry about it; for example, Huygens. An...
Monday September 1, 2025. 05:32 PM
Police are investigating the apparent murder of a festival goer at Burning Man. A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found 'lying in a pool of blood' on Saturday night, police say. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: New users can get lifetime access to all 14 languages on Babbel for $159 with promo code LEARN until September 8. You can only point at a menu and smile for so long before it's time to speak the local lingo. — Read the rest The post Babbel can help you say more than...
In his new book, Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism, renowned historian Allan J. Lichtman argues that, despite rhetoric about limited government, fiscal responsibility, and states' rights, conservatives have consistently prioritized two core...
Rather than accept aspiring dictator and convicted felon Donald Trump's military occupation of their hometown, Washington, D.C., protestors are demanding independence and statehood. Demonstrations continue in Washington, D.C. in response to President Donald Trump's...
Donald Trump's ghoul, mayonnaise-fueled Stephen Miller, portrays Robert F. Kennedy Jr's dismantling of the infrastructure we rely on for public health as some shining stand for truth and science, rather than a turn towards ignorance and death. I should not have been...
Kennywood is a family amusement park in Pittsburgh with 8 roller coasters, 2 water rides, and a long and storied history that made it one of only two such venues to become National Historic Landmarks. It's been hosting adults-only nights lately, but has decided to cancel...
Sunday August 31, 2025. 11:43 PM
Described by the Detroit Free Press as a 'chronic thief' with 17 convictions for property offenses, 36-year-old Michael Prince was at it again outside a grocery store in Winnipeg, Manitoba when staff there emerged to give him a beating. Arguing that they left him with...
Before it became the top TV streaming service, Netflix built its empire by mailing movies on-demand to viewers' homes, obliterating the rental video business and producing an estimated 5 billion DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. It finally shut down that service in 2023, after 25...
Thousands if not zillions of Americans are headed to the nation's beaches this Labor Day weekend, but the Associated Press warns that taking a dip is out of the question in many locales due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination. Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to...
Federal data collection on gender improved markedly in 2014 after relevant questions were added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System and other surveys, and researchers believe about 2.1 million U.S. adults and 724,000...
Kristi 'Puppy Slayer' Noem lives in a different reality than the rest of us. Trump didn't do anything to help with the fires, and the violence Downtown was almost entirely police violently attacking citizens. It was clearly a desperate battle, but after defecating in their...
TL;DR: Stop paying every month and own a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows for just $24.97 through September 7. Whether you're cranking out spreadsheets, polishing a presentation, or firing off a flood of emails, Microsoft Office has your back — and...
Thousands of redheads from around the world gathered this weekend in Tilburg in the Netherlands, hosting the 2025 Redhead Days festival celebrating those with the upgraded MC1R gene. Anyone may attend, though the group photo is for 'natural' redheads only. — Read the rest ...
Finland began using the swastika in its Air Force insignia years before the Nazis appropriated the symbol, and continued to use it after Hitler's regime was ashes. It dropped the swastika from its Air Force logo in 2020, but after joining NATO in 2023, things got a bit...
Saturday August 30, 2025. 11:48 PM
A warehouse worker's habit of making Michael Jackson noises—'hee hee' and 'woo' and what have you—got him fired from his warehouse job in Manchester. Or perhaps it was because he was accused of making racist monkey noises at a black colleague. — Read the rest The post...
TL;DR: Never lose your files again with a lifetime subscription of Koofr Cloud Storage for just $199.99 (Reg. $810.00). A few years ago, I lost everything. Not everything, everything, but all the files on my computer and phone. Some glitch when moving my files from a family...
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