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Tuesday July 15, 2025. 06:02 PM
Japanese teenagers searching for gaming friends and overseas jobs online found themselves trapped in a criminal underworld along the Myanmar-Thailand border. Back in February, Thai police rescued a Japanese teen from a fraud operation base in Mae Sot, a western Thai border...
The Ganzfeld procedure attempts to test for ESP by placing someone thought of as the 'receiver' in a state of mild sensory deprivation. The receiver wears ping-pong ball halves over their eyes, with red light shining on them. White noise plays through headphones. — Read the...
Until now, options for removing PFAS chemicals from the human body have been limited to bloodletting or cholesterol medications with uncomfortable side effects. But this study reveals that specific gut microbes can naturally absorb these toxins and eliminate them through...
By Argentina Government - https://www.argentina.gob.ar/parquesnacionales/ciervodelospantanos(see https://www.argentina.gob.ar/acerca for 'CC BY 4.0' of all media on site) - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0Vx-BxYt0&t=33 – View/save archived versions on...
TL;DR: Get complete control over your data with a platform built for privacy. Scramble Cloud gives you 5TB of storage space with end-to-end encryption for only $249.99 (reg. $805). Data leaks are everywhere these days — and no, you're not being dramatic for wanting to...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is orbiting the sun 3.8 million miles from its surface (Mercury is about 40m miles out, for comparison), surfing the solar eruptions and sending astonishing footage back to Earth. In unprecedented detail, the visuals reveal how superhot ionized...
Scotland and Ireland are only 12 miles distant and share a long history of shared culture, language and migration–and that's not to mention the lairy neighbor they've had to put up with for the duration. The Colmcille map [via] reveals the relationship in beautiful detail. —...
I was skeptical reading about the Commodore 64 Ultimate, as there's nothing new about that rent-a-brand getting stamped on a retrogadget. But 'Commodore' is reportedly being sold outright to a consortium that involves people who were there in the olden days, and there are...
Monday July 14, 2025. 10:49 PM
A fantastic story from the dawn of manufactured candy and involving the legendary Gros Michel, 'banana flavor' is the product of science and convenience. Jello 'banana cream' in a banana cream pie is an overwhelming dose of banana flavor for me. — Read the rest The post...
Trying to get anyone to pay attention to his late-to-market Robotaxi, Elon Musk shares an unfunny tweet. 'Bigger, longer, and uncut' was Musk's response to a corporate tweet from Tesla's @robotaxi account praising the new coverage map as 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.' ...
Nunchuck Tylor is a hero for today's troubling times. I value his positive outlook, his words of affirmation, and keeping track of his randomly appearing and disappearing lightbulbs. Tylor seems to be living his dreams, which is the message. You don't have to dream...
Copgadget company Axon offers an AI service that transcribes bodycam audio and turns it into an automatic police report, which officers can edit and sign off on. There are two big problems with it: first, it doesn't show who wrote what, and second, it doesn't keep a...
I recently bought an inexpensive mini PC from Beelink, one of several Chinese manufacturers that have met the demand for tiny but capable gadgets that can handle everything short of gaming and other demanding video apps. The one I chose, the EQ14, has a built-in power supply ...
Pepper the cat made headlines last year when a mouse he caught tested positive for a type of jeilongvirus, which had never been seen before in the United States. Now, he has done it again, this time discovering a previously unknown strain of orthoreovirus, a type of virus...
It started with some glow sticks at a night game. Chris Martin, the owner of the Tri-City Chili Peppers, a minor league baseball team in Colonial Heights, Virginia, wondered if the whole game could be lit up like that. Almost everyone told him it couldn't be done. — Read the...
Mark Russell, the razor-sharp satirist behind God Is Disappointed in You (my all-time favorite comedic take on The Bible), is back with a new naughty delight. This time, the altar is the Thanksgiving dinner table and the sacrifice is… well, everyone. — Read the rest The...
If you want to stay more informed about what's happening on the ground in Los Angeles, including the cruel and awful ICE raids targeting innocent people across the city, I highly recommend checking out the crucially important reporting being done by L.A. — Read the rest The...
Sunday July 13, 2025. 01:02 AM
After meeting during a theater production, songwriter Aaron David Gleason tagged vocalist Emma Freeman in an online guitar riff post, sparking a creative partnership that would become Pleasantville. Named for Gleason's New York village home base, Pleasantville blends studio...
Saturday July 12, 2025. 09:48 PM
Donald Trump tried to distract from his failing leadership by attacking Rosie O'Donnell, calling her a 'Threat to Humanity' and threatening to 'take away her Citizenship' in a Truth Social Post this morning. But the U.S.-born comedian, who currently lives in Ireland,...
Convicted felon 47 is the only one pushing this fantasy that wind farms cause whale strandings. Trump: 'In New England, for 50 years they had two whales washed up. And last summer they had 14 washed up. Now, I'm not saying that's the wind farm that was built, but maybe it ...
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