Mark Frauenfelder • 1 min ago
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In this week's New Yorker, Allen Kurzweil details his forty-year-long hunt for his childhood boarding-school tormentor, and his discovery that the former twelve-year-old bully had grown up to be a convicted felon. He has also written a book about it, called Whipping Boy.
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David Pescovitz • 40 mins ago
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Above, Hartmut Esslinger's incredible Wega Stereo Concept 51 (1978), from the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye" opening this weekend.
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David Pescovitz • 41 mins ago
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A hunter in Celje, Slovenia shot and killed a unicorn that has almost certainly been misidentified as a roe deer with an antler deformity caused by an injury.
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Kiki Sanford • 45 mins ago
- Imagine never having to take a pill again for anxiety, depression, or your heart condition. Imagine epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease being managed by the patient without drug interventions. What if control of these conditions were possible with a thought? Kiki Sanford reports on the advent of mind-genetic interfaces.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 59 mins ago
- Matt Haley, you are cruel. This is his poster for an imaginary sequel to John Carpenter's 1988 social satire classic, They Live.
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Dennis Eichhorn • 2 hours ago
- "One night I went to a party and got pretty loaded. When I got home I passed out on the couch." Originally published in Real Stuff #6, April 1992.
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Cory Doctorow • 3 hours ago
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Last month, during my many-city book tour, I signed up for Gogo's in-flight wifi service; today I discovered that it's much harder to get shut of it.
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Cory Doctorow • 8 hours ago
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JM Schwartz's 3D printable T-Rex shower head is just about the best thing I've seen all week. It's a mashup of a T-Rex skull produced by Makerbot Academy and Schwartz's own shower-head design.
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Cory Doctorow • 10 hours ago
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Parisian crafter Big Stuffed makes beautiful, cuddly, handmade undersea creatures -- the big ones are huge, like the 90 cm whale made from fun-fur and jersey. (via Crazy Abalone)
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David McRaney • 12 hours ago
- Each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning. By David McRaney
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Cory Doctorow • 12 hours ago
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Even when you factor in dark money, Super PACs and the rest of it, politicians are willing to sell out the nervous system of the 21st century to the worst companies in America for less than $100K.
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Xeni Jardin • 13 hours ago
- Helpful instructions here. But when I go out to pick up dachshunds, I just tell them they're cute and ask if they want to come over to my apartment and see my chew toys.
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Xeni Jardin • 14 hours ago
- All you need is a needle and a banana.
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Cory Doctorow • 14 hours ago
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We've known for years that the FBI spied on Martin Luther King's personal life and sent him an anonymous letter in 1964 threatening to out him for his sexual indiscretions unless he killed himself in 34 days. Now we have an unredacted version of the notorious letter.
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Xeni Jardin • 14 hours ago
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The first space-bound Orion capsule has arrived at a NASA Kennedy Space Center launch pad.
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Cory Doctorow • 15 hours ago
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Having lost his trademark over its overt racism, Daniel Snyder has taken the unusual step of suing the five Native American people who testified before the US Patent and Trademark Office hearing, which led to the finding that Snyder's team's name was "disparaging to Native Americans."
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Jason Weisberger • 16 hours ago
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A friend left me with some Trung Nguyen Vietnamese coffee, so I bought this filter and went to town. I am buzzing and addicted.
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Cory Doctorow • 17 hours ago
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The Pew Internet Project has updated its must-read 2013 work on privacy perception in the post-Snowden era with a survey of American attitudes to privacy and surveillance that shows that the number of Americans who worry about privacy is steeply rising.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 17 hours ago
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Peter Brown grinds up plastic jugs and bottle caps in a blender, then melts them into bricks. He uses the bricks as stock to turn on his lathe.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 17 hours ago
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A mother who purchased an "Evil Stick" for her 3-year-old was unhappy when she found it contained a disturbing image. She wants the store to remove the item from its shelves.
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Cory Doctorow • 18 hours ago
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So says a report from The Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an NGO that singles out the Rio police for "abusive use of lethal force."
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Mark Frauenfelder • 19 hours ago
- Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, delivered this TED Talk at TEDGlobal 2014 about the insanity of the drug war.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 19 hours ago
- This week on the Cool Tools show Veronica Belmont shared some of the tools that make her life as a professional podcaster for the show Sword & Laser a little easier: Patreon and Levelator. She also recommends Rootcup and Ello.
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Carla Sinclair • 20 hours ago
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I’m a huge fan of the Game of Thrones HBO series, and yet I admit I don’t retain half the details in this richly layered, complex, many-threaded fantasy series.
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Cory Doctorow • 20 hours ago
- My latest Locus Magazine column is Stories Are a Fuggly Hack, in which I point out the limits of storytelling as an artform, and bemoan all the artists from other fields -- visual art, music -- who aspire to storytelling in order to make their art.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 20 hours ago
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Cartoonist Reed Crandall was one of EC Comics' many superstars in the 1950s, drawing stories for Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, Tales from the Crypt, Two-Fisted Tales, The Vault of Horror, Extra!, Impact, Piracy, Weird Fantasy, and Weird Science-Fantasy.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 21 hours ago
- The Time Is Money Chrome extension converts prices on online shopping sites to the number of hours you'll have to work to pay for them. [via]
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Xeni Jardin • 21 hours ago
- One theory about the history of space is that comets like this one delivered water to the planets. And therein lies one possible true hidden reason for Philae's 316-million-mile trip. To get a drink.
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Mark Frauenfelder • 21 hours ago
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Listen to the "truly hypnotic, pounding, buzzsaw drone [The Ramones] made as complete amateur unknowns" in this collection of demo recordings.
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Cory Doctorow • 21 hours ago
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Evan from Battle for the Net sez, "We're throwing a kickin' dance party to celebrate the power of the open web -- right on the FCC's doorstep, to keep the pressure on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler so he knows we want real net neutrality without delay!"
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Mark Frauenfelder • 21 hours ago
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"In this surveillance video from Treasure Coast Lawn Equipment a man is seen allegedly stealing a chainsaw by putting it in his pants."
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Cory Doctorow • 22 hours ago
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If 29 year old Megan Rothbauer had been taken three more blocks to Madison, WI's, Meriter Hospital when she had a freak heart attack, she'd have owed $1500, but since the comatose woman was brought to St Mary's Hospital, which Blue Cross Blue Shield won't deal with, she owes $50K and is facing bankruptcy.
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Rob Beschizza • 22 hours ago
- Britain's Literary Review has published its "highly anticipated" shortlist of finalists for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
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Xeni Jardin • 23 hours ago
- UPDATE: Hugs and applause in Mission Control at 11:05AM ET, the sure sign of a successful landing despite incredible odds.
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Rob Beschizza • 23 hours ago
- It's a big arrow, granted, fired from ballista rather than bow. But it's also a hell of a big dragon. [Wired]
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Cory Doctorow • 23 hours ago
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Ever since 2013, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation started shaming email providers that did not encrypt their customers' email, more and more mail providers have turned on STARTTLS, which protects email in transit from snooping, without requiring users to take any additional steps.
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Ivan Hernandez • 23 hours ago
- Dan Hipp's drawings bring a cuteness and depth to pop culture, taking on everything from Marvel to Miyazaki to Parks and Recreation.
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Ivan Hernandez • 1 day ago
- Somehow, the ideas of objectivist posterwoman and noted anti-feminist Ayn Rand have found new life in the world of girl power brand merchandising.
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Cory Doctorow • 1 day ago
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It's a pretty straightforward sendup of the now-notorious 10 hours of catcalls video, but manages to pack in some pretty awesome Star Wars jokes. (Thanks, Jah Furry!)
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Sword and Laser • 1 day ago
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We have some awesome World Fantasy winners to talk about, some exciting casting news for The Magicians and The Expanse, but it really gets interesting when our Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep check-in turns into an ethics of meat-eating discussion.
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