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Thursday February 20, 2025. 04:02 PM
With the Oscars growing more and more contentious every year, I've taken to keeping up with other awards shows where people are less likely to get slapped. Case in point – did you even know the BAFTA film awards just happened? — Read the rest The post David Tennant opens...
Texas banned abortion and made a point of not studying the healthcare outcomes. ProPublica sifted through data on millions of hospitalizations of pregnant women and concludes that the outcomes are dire: maternal sepsis rates during the second trimester have gone from 2.9% to ...
When I hear the words 'cast iron,' I typically think about frying pans, and how I know I'm supposed to season them but never quite do it right. I've certainly never thought about the process involved with creating cast iron, and what exactly makes it unique or...
The Hairy Ball theorem, proved by Henri Poincaré in 1885, demonstrates that it's impossible to create a perfectly smooth hair pattern on a spherical surface. The theorem states that any continuous pattern of hair (or more technically, vector fields) on a sphere must have at ...
Passengers on an Allegiant Air flight to Florida were reportedly trapped on the plane for six hours as it sat on the tarmac in Albany, New York. Footage, captured by one of the stranded passengers on Monday, shows the stuck travelers milling around the plane while people...
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested yesterday after denouncing MAGA as a 'Nazi movement' during a Huntington Beach city council meeting, where he protested a MAGA-inspired library plaque. As reported by The Daily Beast, Kluwe addressed the council from the public...
You've seen fake QR codes slapped on parking meters, but have you seen them on gravestones? Police in Munich are investigating after 1,000 headstones and crosses were defaced with QR code stickers at the Waldfriedhof, Sendlinger Friedhof and Friedhof Solln cemetaries there....
Former Vice President Mike Pence lashed out at his former boss, tersely correcting Donald Trump's blatant lie that Ukraine started the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 'Mr. President, Ukraine did not 'start' this war,' Pence snapped in a social media post yesterday after Trump, ...
After one intruder got too close, the U.S. Secret Service deployed a Belgian Malinois named Hurricane. The next one over the fence didn't get very far at all, and Hurricane was the hero of the hour. Hurricane, the recipient of many awards, treats., — Read the rest The post H...
The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees this week, a spokesperson disclosed, to comply with executive orders from the White House to reduce the federal workforce. It amounts to about 10% of the foundation's payroll. Prior to the firings, about 1,700 staff worked ...
Remember how you switched to those cute little wax melts because they seemed safer than candles? Surprise! Turns out you've been hotboxing your living room with the equivalent of car exhaust. As reported in New Atlas, scientists at Purdue University ruined everyone's 'Winter ...
'Subway Poker' lets players create poker hands using nothing but the random assortment of passengers sitting in their chosen row of seats. The rules: Two players each select a row of five seats to watch. Passengers become cards — children count as 10s, teenagers as Jacks,...
A prosecutor with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Dallas is an overt racist and white supremacist, reports The Texas Observer, which attributes to him various statements it found online. They run from talk about organizing mass deportations and boasts...
President Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has acquired 'God mode' access to federal systems. According to reporting from The Atlantic, the quasi-governmental agency has 'total control over systems that Americans working in conflict zones rely on, the...
Hi. Welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. Heil, Caesar! Like most people here, the future for me is great under Trump America. I live in a perfectly white, ethnically cleansed neighborhood, with a three Cybertruck garage and all the cheap yard work federal layoffs...
TL;DR: You can get this user-friendly photo-editing software for Windows or Mac with tons of presets for $119.99 (reg. $752) — that's our unbeatable offer. Posting photos to Instagram and Facebook used to be simple — snap, share, done. Now, everyone's posting perfectly...
Wednesday February 19, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Rest easy with a pair of SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking Wireless Earbuds for sleeping on sale for $25.99 (reg. $34). Who doesn't love that feeling when you finally get to close your eyes after a long day? The worries of the world begin to melt away as you start to...
EastByMike fermented french fries for a week in a jar of salt brine and cabbage leaves. Video below. 'The result: french fries that tasted like salt and vinegar chips,' he says, enticingly. From his recipe: When you're ready to cook, discard the cabbage leaves and drain the ...
Another day, another plane crash, this one a mid-air collision that killed two people in Arizona this morning, according to KGUN. The two small planes — a Cessna 172S and Lancair 360 MK II — crashed at 8:28 a.m. local time near the Marana Regional Airport, 15 miles...
This freaky black spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was spotted on Google Earth. Located in the South Pacific about 4,000 miles from Australia, it's just.1 square miles in size. What is it though? Armchair anomaly investigators suggest everything from a spacetime...
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