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Friday March 28, 2025. 01:53 PM
Many Americans are becoming interested in Greenland right now for no particular reason. Here is a selection of interesting facts about the island territory. Let's get this out of the way first. Greenland is primarily white, not green. The Greenland ice sheet covers 80% of...
That vaccines do not cause autism is well-established. Scientists long ago debunked attempts to link the two, pushed back against the tide of misinformation and conspiracy theory, and countered the false narratives, 'vaccine detox' supplements, therapies, and other grifts....
The Clootie Well at Munlochy on the Black Isle in Scotland is a place where people go to receive healing. At his traditional Scottish healing well, people tie strips of cloth (cloots) to trees or nearby posts. The reason for this is to receive healing or blessings for...
TL;DR: Make sure you always have a good view with the high definition monocular telescope, now $22.97, 58% off, through April 27. Planning on spending more time outside this spring? If you want a better view of birds you encounter on a walk or need to scope the scene for...
A decade after buying Family Dollar for $8bn, Dollar Tree is selling its onetime competitor for $1bn. The marriage didn't work out: it turns out there wasn't space for both a 'strict' dollar store chain (though Dollar Tree now sells things for $1.25) and a 'loose' dollar...
Cretora Biggerstaff is a sharp 106-year-young passenger from Houston who travels to Florida twice a year with her daughter — but says the airlines flag her every time she flies. 'I know what the majority of people think, 'Oh, she's 106, she's probably…in a wheelchair,...
Thursday March 27, 2025. 11:57 PM
Red marks on a communion wafer were thought by parishioners in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, to be a miraculous sign of divine presence. The blood of Christ turned out, however, to be bacteria. The discovery at St. — Read the rest The post...
I always wanted to get into FPGA development, on the cutting edge of retrogaming authenticity, but simply trying to comprehend the OneChipBook-12's product page convinces me that I might be better off sticking with emulators and fantasy consoles. The device is a laptop form...
Heidi Markow, proprietor of Easton, Pennsylvania's Salvage Goods Antiques, was at a collector's auction buying stuff for resale when a little drawing caught her fancy. See it in the video below. 'I didn't know what it was, I just knew that I wanted it,' Markow said. — Read...
From Federico Fellini to Spike Jonez and Ridley Scott, many great film directors have taken their talent to Madison Avenue to create television commercials. Indeed, David Lynch famously delivered his cinematic surrealism in spots for Calvin Klein's Obsession fragrance,...
TL;DR: This high-tech Aquaala Hydrogen Infuser water bottle may offer health benefits, and now it's just $37.99 (reg. $69). If your social media algorithms tend to incorporate the latest health trends, you've likely seen some hydrogen-infused water bottles. You may have...
Two people in Belgium calmly walked away from their car stuck on railroad tracks just seconds before a train demolished it — but their suspiciously unhurried behavior has led to skepticism about whether it was truly an accident. The incident, captured on video in Liege and ...
If humanity is to become a spacefaring civilization, we'll need to sort out how to get a lot of sleep in space. After all, with today's technology, it would take around nine months just to get to Mars. The ability for humans to hibernate would be quite helpful for longer...
A man with the inability to speak made history in 1974 by ordering a pizza over the phone using a voice synthesizer. The call took place at Michigan State University's Artificial Language Laboratory on December 4, 1974. Donald Sherman, who has Moebius Syndrome Syndrome had...
The Light Phone II was my favorite high-end dumphone, taking over from the Punkt, and the Light Phone III (previously) changes the worst thing about it—the slow e-ink display (which I thought I'd love) is now a fast OLED one. — Read the rest The post Premium digital detox ...
It looks like Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg wasn't the only person that did not belong in Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth's strategic war-plan group chat. Another outsider who had no business absorbing classified information by top U.S. military intelligence was conspiracy...
This weird wasp shared the Earth with the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago. Paleontologist studying specimens of the animal preserved in amber were surprised to find a strange structure on its abdomen. While functioning similar to the Venus flytrap, the flap mechanism...
Tammy Duckworth, a U.S. Senator (D-Il.) and combat veteran, issued a statement on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to avoid responsibility for sharing details of forthcoming military operations with a Signal group. 'Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly ...
US Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is turning random acts of vandalism by individuals into a violent plot by Democrats, somehow suggesting Democrats are effective at something. The vast majority of Tesla protests are peaceful, well intentioned, and organized by people...
A babysitter in Kansas peeked under a child's bed to prove there were no monsters hiding there, and she was right. All she found was an intruder staring back at her and some dust bunnies. 'One child complained there was a 'monster' under their bed,' local police said in a...
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