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Russian villagers have begun buying horses instead of cars as the country's gasoline crisis deepens, The Moscow Times reported Monday, citing claims by horse breeders there. Demand for workhorses has… Read the rest of the article: Russians returning to 1 horsepower amid gasoline shortages
A federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by self-published poet Kimberly Marasco, ruling (not for the first time!) that the material Marasco… Read the rest of the article: Poet's copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift tossed again
Knockoff is "Amazon, without the knockoffs": a browser extension for Chrome that filters out the gibberish factory brands that are typically favoried over quality products in the online retailer's search… Read the rest of the article: "Knockoff" browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results
According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll… Read the rest of the article: In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully… Read the rest of the article: For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares — "approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million per square mile)," according to Wikipedia, making… Read the rest of the article: In 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
According to the record of the 1452/1453 mystery eruption, a volcano erupted somewhere on Earth powerful enough to inject about 11 megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere — "roughly one-third… Read the rest of the article: A volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453
Another week, another Saul4Democracy video. For the uninitiated, this is a web series run by Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, featuring actors Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks back in… Read the rest of the article: Mike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA
If you've ever stepped on a LEGO piece, you already know they have the ability to strike fear into anyone's heart. Despite this, though, their potential for horror has never… Read the rest of the article: LEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24
Most mountain documentaries build toward the summit. This one builds toward the last few meters climbers refuse to touch, out of respect for Mount Kangchenjunga, the third-tallest peak on Earth.… Read the rest of the article: The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose
A Waymo in San Mateo reportedly ratted out two teenagers for drinking and shooting Orbeez from the back seat, proving the driverless future still has a hall monitor. Nobody is… Read the rest of the article: Teens discover their robot taxi is a narc
CoreCivic just sold two of California's largest immigrant detention centers to the federal government for $1.5 billion, then apparently got hired to keep running the place. CalMatters reports that CoreCivic… Read the rest of the article: ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys
Tradd Moore is one of those cartoonists whose pages, filled with riotous color and ridiculously-cool eyeball kicks, can genuinely drop your jaw. In Silver Surfer: Black it's cosmic psychedelia. In… Read the rest of the article: Tradd Moore's first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press
English spelling is not broken so much as visibly injured. A video by Airlearn Language Show explains how the printing press, the Great Vowel Shift, dead gods, French-Italian beef, Dutch… Read the rest of the article: Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history
California is finally doing something about the tiny fridge panic caused by "sell by," "best by," "use by," and whatever other cryptic prophecy your yogurt cup is trying to deliver.… Read the rest of the article: California makes food labels less stupid
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TRMNL is a battery-powered e-ink display that sits on a desk, shelf or refrigerator and shows the information you choose—calendars, weather, sales pipelines, transit times, the latest church wall collapse… Read the rest of the article: TRMNL: hackable e-ink dashboard to put anywhere
In 1977, a special-education center opened in Managua with 50 deaf children. Enrollment reached 400 across two schools by 1983. Teachers drilled the students in spoken Spanish and lipreading, "with… Read the rest of the article: Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air
The Coso artifact, dug from a California hillside in 1961 and claimed to be prehistoric, was "actually a 1920s spark plug that had become encased in a concretion." It belongs… Read the rest of the article: The ancient spark plug and other "out-of-place artifacts"
