TL;DR: Get a Babbel lifetime subscription covering all 14 languages for $159 (reg. $299) with code LEARN. Plenty of language apps will happily teach you a stockpile of nouns and verb tenses, then… Read the rest of the article: All Babbel language courses just dropped in this exclusive offer
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union — when the safety mechanisms… Read the rest of the article: In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
In 2004, John Bergeron built an animatronic from about $2,000 in materials — a 5'10" metal skeleton with synthetic rubber skin, a wig, and women's clothing — and set out… Read the rest of the article: Remember Tara, the singing android that terrified the internet
In March of the year 536, the sky over Constantinople went dark for a year-and-a-half. The Roman historian Procopius wrote that "the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and… Read the rest of the article: In the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"
On the night of May 22, 1969, Sergeant Paul Meyer — a 23-year-old Air Force mechanic and Vietnam veteran stationed at RAF Mildenhall in England — drank heavily at a… Read the rest of the article: A homesick mechanic stole a C-130 to fly home to his wife
Modern voice AI can talk about anything, which is the problem: do you want therapy from your fridge? On his blog Interconnected, Matt Webb posted excerpts from sci-fi stories about… Read the rest of the article: The sci-fi machines that talk, but only about one thing
Codex Micro is a keypad by Work Louder, for OpenAI, that's designed for use specifically with LLM-related tasks such as chatting to chatbots and marshalling agents, whatever that means. It… Read the rest of the article: A tiny keypad for chatting with chatbots
On October 25, 1924, witnesses at Margate, South Africa reported watching a huge white creature battle two killer whales offshore for three hours, using its tail to attack and lifting… Read the rest of the article: The "polar bear sea monster" that fought whales was a blob of whale
Decoy is a font where each glyph is ambigious, the idea being that machines will interpret it one way and humans another. In the example above, HAPPY HUMAN is the… Read the rest of the article: Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI
Almost everything you've read about how Anthony Burgess came to write A Clockwork Orange may be invented — by Burgess himself, argues The Memory Hole. As the standard account has… Read the rest of the article: The A Clockwork Orange origin story may be a total fabrication
Signalbox plots every train moving across Britain in real time (or close to it), each choo choo represented by a dot creeping along the lines. Click one to see its… Read the rest of the article: Live map of Britain's trains
The Anti-Forbes List ranks the richest humans not by their net worth (illiquid, volatile and unrealizable as it is) but by the value their companies have created for other people,… Read the rest of the article: Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
TL;DR: EbookMagic uses AI to generate, format, and package ebooks with custom covers, Kindle-ready exports, commercial rights, and more – all with a lifetime license for $39.99 (reg. $149.99). The hardest part… Read the rest of the article: This $40 AI tool writes, formats, and covers your next ebook
Heikki Lotvonen's Text Art Tools is a collection of websites and apps that make it easier to make what once was known as ASCII art but is now a vast… Read the rest of the article: Collection of useful text art tools
To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is turning up the nostalgia to 11 with Stranger Things: VHS special edition. According to a Netflix press… Read the rest of the article: Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan and scan VHS glory
Most countries give tourists a 30- or 90-day stamp and start counting the days. The Republic of Georgia gives you a whole year, no application required. In his travel newsletter… Read the rest of the article: The country that hands you a one-year tourist visa at the airport
Anyone who's spent a lot of time in second-or third-world nations will tell you that tuk-tuks are definitely a thing. They're inexpensive to operate, compared to a car or truck,… Read the rest of the article: Cuba's surviving Trump's oil embargo with solar powered tuk-tuks
Fantagraphics Books is nearing completion of its ambitious mission to publish the entirety of master cartoonist Carl Barks's 1942-1966 run of Donald Duck comics for Western Publishing. Comics fans (full… Read the rest of the article: The Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea
Osamu Tezuka's influence on comics and animation is monumental. Before Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Chainsaw Man, and countless other manga and anime that found devoted audiences across the world,… Read the rest of the article: New documentary explores the astonishing legacy of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka
Americans filed 158 million card-transaction disputes in 2025 — up 29% since 2021, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek piece by Amanda Mull. Worldwide, the jump was even steeper, 46%. Bloomberg… Read the rest of the article: Bloomberg calls chargebacks "friendly fraud" — but it's often the only option
