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Saturday March 30, 2024. 01:33 PM
Since its inception in 1959, only 360 people have been members of the NASA Astronaut Corps. There are currently 48 active astronauts, and NASA is building the Artemis Generation. If you dreamed of being an astronaut as a kid – and I refuse to believe anyone doesn't –...
Here's a video that's blowing up, featuring young musicians tearing into 'Wish' by Nine Inch Nails like seasoned pros. It's fascinating to see such young talents channel the song's themes of self-loathing and frustration in a way that's both intense and, honestly, kind of...
This portrait from 1896 features a woman with a rare condition, congenital nevus with hypertrichosis, that caused a mane of hair to grow from her back. The hair growing from between her shoulder blades looks like head hair, and seems to be well-cared for. — Read the rest ...
Sophia Bogel is an author, teacher, and book restorer. Watch her take us through the fascinating process of deconstructing and restoring a 100-year-old book. Bogel shows us how restoring an old, fragile book is an incredibly delicate undertaking, and one wrong move can...
The audio effects added to this video of baby octopi playing makes me so happy. Baby octopi are already adorable, and this added audio just makes watching them swim around even more entertaining. If you're having a bad day, hopefully this video will cheer you up. — Read...
When these sneaky snails make it to the top of the hill, they set off a chain reaction of mesmerizing events that results in a cabbage being dropped into a bowl for the snails' dinner. Joseph's Machines always amazes me with the innovation and great fun of his videos. —...
Before alarm clocks were common and affordable, you could hire a knocker-upper to wake you in the morning. A knocker-upper would come to the outside of your house in the morning and wake you up by banging on your window with a long stick. — Read the rest The post Before...
Agnes Catlow's Drops of Water is an 1851 book filled with beautiful illustrations of the author's interpretations of microscopic organisms. The illustrations are all so delicate and ethereal looking. Each one feels like a doorway into another world. It's a lot of fun to...
The Sol Cinema [via Atlas Obscura] is the world's smallest movie theater, and runs on solar power. You can watch a film in this cute, environmentally friendly theater in Ceredigion, Wales. The theater is built inside of a 60's style travel trailer, which goes on tours around ...
Meet Atlanta, Georgia-based artist Karen Anderson Singer, the creator of the 'Tiny Doors ATL' public art project. Anderson makes 7-inch door sculptures and places them around the city of Atlanta and beyond—so far she's placed dozens throughout Atlanta, and has...
This video describes a teacher's diabolical method for checking whether work submitted by students was written by themselves, or if they cheated by getting ChatGPT to write essays. The role of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in the classroom is becoming an increasingly...
The spooky video below was recorded by a security guard at the upscale El Palacio de Hierro department store in Mexico City department store. According to the security guard, he was making his 2am rounds when he came across several Amazon Alexa smart speakers praying. — Read...
Some restaurants refuse to serve ketchup. In Chicago, it's even a tradition to tease people who enjoy ketchup on their hot dogs. 'The history of the Chicago-style hot dog never included that. Tomatoes are already on the hot dog, which is a more natural form of that...
TL;DR: If you're looking to soup up your Tesla even more than it already is, this USB-C Docking Station for the Model 3 from 2021-2023 can be your next favorite toy. It's here on sale for $31.99 (reg. $39). Tesla users, your car isn't the only thing that needs a good charge i...
Alex Ford, UK Marine Biology professor at the University of Portsmouth, says that when the sewage treatment plant at Hampshire's Langstone Habor, on the southern coast of England, becomes overloaded, it spills raw sewage into the harbor. That means that it's dumping not just ...
Yes, really. Supremely fun co-op shooter Helldivers 2 pits you against a wide range of galactic threats, but none are proving quite so deadly as snowball fights between players. Now that the game's been out for a while, players are discovering its hidden secrets- including...
Friday March 29, 2024. 11:31 PM
Adam Mockler talks to some very dedicated and colorful MAGAs. The Bus entrepreneur baffles me. This gentleman somehow blames Biden for how he nearly lost his bus business during COVID but is happy to have spent around $1 million campaigning for Donald Trump. — Read the rest ...
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on March 26th after being struck by a 100,000-ton cargo ship. When it opened to traffic in 1977, it was the second-longest continuous-truss bridge span in the world. On the day of the crash, it was the second-longest in the United...
In October, New York City set up a chatbot that uses the wondrous, labor-saving power of Artificial Intelligence to provide information to business owners in the city. But the Microsoft-powered bot is often providing false information to New York business owners, telling...
In what could have been a scene out of a sci-fi flick, a dog blasted a cat into another dimension — or at least off screen — with just a single sneeze. Their humans just happened to be filming the duo, who were lounging together, when the pooch couldn't hold back,...
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