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Sunday March 17, 2024. 06:52 PM
Imagine sinking your toes into warm, black sand that's not just sun-soaked — it's radioactive. Welcome to Guarapari, a popular Brazilian coastal town where the beaches regularly register radiation levels up to 55 times higher than the U.S. average. So what's behind...
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One woman is a bulldog, and the other is an Alaskan Malamute, says DNA My Dog of Human samples. CBS News reports that a dog DNA testing lab is offering up some odd results. While other services do not find enough doggie DNA to compose a report, one service found enough dog...
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The Museum of International Folk Art is a must-see for anyone in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The collection of art here is truly magical, ranging from whimsical, handmade masks to exquisitely detailed dioramas to hand-carved, wooden dolls. When visiting for the first time, it...
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Pere Rosselló, an astrophysics student at Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain, posted an animation depicting the gravitational collapse of Spongebob. 'You can see how virial equilibrium is eventually reached,' he explained, helpfully. Gravitational collapse of...
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As the first Irish man to win a Best Actor Oscar, Cillian Murphy also had the distinct honor of having his name pronounced correctly to a viewing audience of millions. But according to a recent article in Irish Central, leading tech companies are dropping the Gaelic...
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It's that time of year again! Time to Irish Mambo. Whaddya think they're dancing to everywhereSure it's a Mambo beat with an Irish airSure an' it just came over from over thereIt's the diddly-aye Irish Mambo Previously: Here are Irish people confronted with stereotypical ...
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This is just the solution to Los Angeles' congestion problem that I was thinking of! More cars! But without drivers. Google's self-driving taxis will make their debut on the busy streets of LA in the next few months. LA, permanently hip trendsetter that it is, will be the...
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If you're in need of a short brain break, you can play with this piece of virtual bubble wrap. Each time you 'pop' a bubble, it multiplies into little bubbles. You can press these to get even more, tinier bubbles. — Read the rest The post Take a brain break and play with...
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TL;DR: Work on your green thumb with the Pico Planter for only $37.97 (Reg. $49) until 11:59 PM PST on 3/17. Green thumbs and plant novices alike will love the coolest smart planter to ever hit Kickstarter. Pico is the tiny indoor plant pod that's about to take your plant...
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At a rally today in Dayton, Ohio, former president Donald Trump, while rambling on the subject of automobile tarriffs, suddenly veered into discussion of November's election and issued a promise: there'll be a 'bloodbath' if he doesn't win. ...
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Saturday March 16, 2024. 10:00 PM
TL;DR: With the Nix Mini 2 Color-Matching Sensor, you scan any surface to find the ultimate shade match. It's a must for your home renovators and creatives, and for 48 hours, it's on sale for only $59.97 (reg. $99)! — Read the rest The post Upgrade your DIY projects with...
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In the 90s, comics were competing harder than ever for consumers' attention and publishers needed a new way to grab attention on the shelf. After all, we often do judge books by their covers and good art can only go far. — Read the rest The post Glow-in-the-dark inks, real b...
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Brian Vu's suitcase was a veritable smorgasbord of seafood when he boarded a flight from British Columbia to Ontario operated by Canadian ultra-low-coast Flair Airlines. That's when things turned rotten. Even though passengers are prohibited from putting perishables in their ...
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Harry Houdini is famous today as an escape artist, but his real passion in the 1920s was ghost busting. Or, rather, busting phony psychics who claimed to communicate with the dead. Spiritualism was extremely popular after the horrors of World War I, but Houdini, who had...
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Two young children were playing a nighttime game hide-and-seek in Coatepec, Mexico while a parent recorded the fun when something creepy occurred. In the video, the little girl finds her playmate behind a rock and says 'I found you' in Spanish. — Read the rest The post...
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What's the one thing Minecraft is missing? If you said 'a movie adaptation starring Jack Black', you'd be correct, but the second thing is a proper physics engine. If you've ever been frustrated that your blocks don't act like they would in the real world, look no further...
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Today we are all too familiar with the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but almost 170 years ago, an American woman gave us a distant early warning that went unnoticed. Eunice Newton Foote was a women's rights activist and amateur scientist, overlooked for...
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I hadn't thought to post about the public exposure of far-right political cartoonist StoneToss, but now that Twitter is censoring discussion of his alleged name it's once again time for everyone to experience the Streisand Effect. For Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring,...
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Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated countries in the world, is hoping to extinguish one of its only tourist attractions — a fiery 20-foot wide crater. The Darvaza Crater has been burning for over fifty years, with methane-fed flames reaching temperatures above 1,000...
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I have always loved science, but I chose not to go into a scientific field for reasons I cannot explain. I considered going back to school, but I found a way to get involved in scientific research without taking out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans or being a...
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