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Monday June 30, 2025. 06:36 PM
A family is desperately seeking help in freeing their father, a twenty-year California resident, before he disappears altogether into CBP's for-profit detention and deportation system. Picking up supplies to fix a fence for a customer, a local handyman was chased down and...
New research reveals that daily low-dose cannabis use can preserve and enhance working memory in adults over 65. (Working memory is the brain's ability to temporarily hold and manipulate information, like remembering a phone number long enough to dial it or keeping track of...
WordPress is the swiss army knife content-management software that most of the world's media websites run on, this one included. Though open-source, the software and its ecosystem are marshalled by founding creator Matt Mullenweg, and this oversight has become controversial...
Now that Donald Trump's whirlwind bromance with Elon Musk has reached its predictable demise, Musk will surely seek revenge, says his former longtime friend. 'I've had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years,' Silicon Valley entrepreneur Philip Low, whose decade-long...
Recreating the circumstances of classic movie The Truman Show would, of course, be illegal and highly unethical. Any number of groups have used 'in Minecraft' as a get out of jail free card when discussing illegal activity, however, so why should this be any different? —...
A father leaped into the sea to save his daughter as she plummeted overboard. The safety barriers on these ships are generally child-proof, so it is a mystery as to how this child managed to climb over the railing. A father jumped into the ocean to save his young daughter...
For $20 and a WiFi connection, you can make a handheld gadget to watch the International Space Station circle the Earth in real-time. A new open-source project called SpaceStationTracker transforms an inexpensive pocket-sized device with a 2.8-inch color touchscreen into a...
For anyone who has always wanted to meet an opossum, I have some terrific news for you! I just learned about 'PossumFest,' a celebration of all things opossum, which will take place in Cumberland, Kentucky, on September 6, 2025, from noon to 8 pm! — Read the rest The post...
Here's a puzzle from The Pyrgic Puzzler by Christopher Maslanka: You drop a ball from 1 meter high. Each time it bounces, it rises to half its previous height. Find the total distance the ball travels (up and down) until it stops. — Read the rest The post This bouncing...
This Victorian-era 'meat juice' tonic, called 'Valentine's Meat Juice', was created by a man trying to save his dying wife. Although meat juice isn't everyone's idea of romance, the story behind its creation is undeniably sweet. The reputation of the meat juice took a turn...
Much of the internet is a cesspool, but the one reliable source of happiness is a cute animal meme. Sharing cute animal content is the human equivalent of pebbling, when penguins gift pebbles as a sign of affection, according to a study by researchers at Concordia University ...
TL;DR: You could keep running your old OS, or you could upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199). Still rocking a Windows 10 PC? Props to you for sustainability and saving money by making your PC last, but the deadline for Windows 10 support is fast approaching later...
Anyone still doubting that mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani isn't a true New Yorker (read: racists) need only check out his mixtape. Before entering politics, he had a short-lived career as a music producer like every New Yorker ever, which the right-wing establishment is...
If you're as chronically online as I am or you just care about artists' rights, you may have noticed the scheming of Mr. Beast, the biggest YouTuber in the world, to make the artists he employs obsolete by replacing them with the same AI algorithms that he was presumably...
This video of all kinds of adorable desert animals quenching their thirst at the Tucson Bird Alliance's watering hole is one of the best things I've seen lately! The Tucson Bird Alliance posted the video on their Instagram recently, with the explanatory caption: A PSA...
Maxell! Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. And it's back with the MXCP-P100, a new portable cassette player. It has some modern features to please modern listeners, such as Bluetooth, a USB Type C port to charge its built-in lithium battery, and sleek...
Forget such pedestrian pursuits as making a Wii smaller. What if, instead of just miniaturizing consoles, your next DIY project was constructing one from scratch? (Sort of.) The PICO-8 is as much a philosophical experiment as it is a coding project. — Read the rest The post...
A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, winding serpent. These maps, created by Harold Fisk in 1944, document the river's movements over thousands of years. Many of the rivers changed course...
Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling, is based on a novel from The Martian author Andy Weir and carries a similar payload of a lonely chap lost in space with only grit and hard science to solve an existential problem. — Read the rest The post Trailer for Project Hail...
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits that his anti-fluoride crusade may lead to Americans suffering more tooth decay and cavities. But 'it's a balance,' he said, without describing what's on the other side of the scales, instead falsely claiming that...
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