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Tuesday July 29, 2025. 06:32 PM
China's Danxia Mountain attracts visitors with its distinctive red sandstone cliffs, stunning views, and challenging hiking trails that test even experienced trekkers. This UNESCO Global Geopark in Guangdong Province is cherished for its dramatic landscape of crimson-hued...
I recently watched this disturbing half-hour video, Inside 'Return to the Land': The group making a whites-only community in Arkansas, which provides a glimpse into a 'whites only' online-movement-turned-real-life-community called 'Return to the Land' (RTTL), which is...
Scientific research in the United States is under attack. In some ways, science is an easy mark in a country that is increasingly anti-science and anti-intellectual. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, has penned an important piece...
Early cinema turned magnifying glasses into windows to the weird, wonderful, and sometimes unsavory. In 1900s films, magnifying glasses emerged as a favorite storytelling device in early 'trick films.' They served both scientific and novel purposes, revealing a hidden world...
South Florida has an invasive Burmese python problem, which sounds terrifying on top of the giant snakes being really bad for the environment. Luckily, though, scientists have found a new way to combat the problem: robo-bunnies, which are remote-controlled electronic rabbits ...
A hike in a forest can feel great: it's beautiful, fragrant, invigorating, even spiritual. But it may be even more than that. It may chemically boost your immune system, helping to protect you from diseases, including cancer. Trees produce and release into the air chemicals...
Unitree's humanoid robots can do kung fu, play soccer, and sometimes go berserk and attack people. Now, for the low price of $ 5,900, plus shipping, the Unitree R1 can perform cartwheels and handstands, kickbox, and run downhill. — Read the rest The post Cartwheeling robot...
Turkish sand coffee is a visually striking and traditional method of brewing Turkish coffee using hot sand as the heat source. This centuries-old technique originates from the Middle East, particularly Turkey, and has become popular at cultural festivals and specialty cafés ...
I'm fascinated by owl pellets, which contain various parts of an owl's prey that they cannot digest, including fur, feathers, teeth, bones, and more. Since owls don't have teeth and can't chew their food, they swallow their prey whole. And unlike other raptors that have an...
16colo.rs is a retro computer graphics gallery full of ANSI/ASCII art for your pleasure and delight, a revival of an earlier site and herald of the artform's 'modest' revival of late. It offers a number of technical features of interest, such as aspect ratio and letter...
TL;DR: Skip the subscriptions and get lifetime access to GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, Midjourney, and more with 1min.AI — now just $79.97 (reg. $540). AI is a circus, but you don't have to be its monkey. Between monthly fees, login juggling, and paying extra to access the...
Restoring a portrait held by the Carnegie Museum of Art revealed the true appearance of its subject, Isabella de' Medici. The painting was touched up in the 1800s with 'Victorian biscuit tin features' to make her more conventionally attractive to potential buyers. — Read the...
As lethal floods tore through Texas and the feds failed to quickly organize help, frustrated locals complained to one another about how useless the Trump administration was. In one message surfaced by public record requests, Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice referred to...
Russian metal fans have another thing to worry about: being accused of satanism and jailed after the Kremlin outlawed the latter as a 'terroist group'—along with its symbols and indicia. The Russian Supreme Court's ruling came after appeals from the leader of the Russian ...
Chris Napthine wanted to surprise his young daughter on the last day of school by picking her up in a full-body gorilla costume. Afterwards, the 47-year-old horse dentist and farmer was asked by the school not to do it again as the costume posed a 'safeguarding' concern. —...
Monday July 28, 2025. 11:25 PM
McHire is McDonald's AI hiring app. The private data of 64 million applicants was exposed because the admin login password was '123456' and provided access to the AI chatbot's logs. Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered the problem in June, Carroll...
TL;DR: Save 25% on this USB-C to USB-C charging cable with an Apple Watch charger built right in for a limited time! Minimalists and overpackers alike, take note: this phone and Apple Watch cable is about to earn a permanent spot in your carry-on. — Read the rest The post Tr...
This recipe is based on the mac salad found at L&L BBQ and is pretty darn close. Hawaiian BBQ is one of my favorites. I have made Kaluha pork and chicken Katsu before, but the mac salad always eluded me. The secrets lie in this video. — Read the rest The post The...
Canny kids are borrowing adult faces to get around the age checks now required to access popular websites in the U.K., but there's an easier (if more expensive) method: just use a virtual private network to access the web from another country. — Read the rest The post VPN us...
The diner's first weekend saw Tesla Takedown protests. Protests against Elon Musk continue. Rejected by Trump and watching Tesla's future turn to crap, I'd think Musk finds the diner also a stark reminder of the success he has destroyed. The charging station infrastructure...
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