Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel has spotted this plastic skull made from melted down classic heavy metal cassettes from the heyday of the boombox and the walkman. The artist, Brian Dettmer, has also made an entire skeleton the same way.
Skull made from melted metal cassettes: Boing Boing Gadgets
Long-tailed macaques of Bali have learned to steal high-value goods from tourists
A few years ago, the scientific news broke of a group of long-tailed macaque monkeys in Bali, Indonesia who would steal stuff from people and hold it ransom for food. You want your hat back? Gimme an apple. Researchers kept studying the monkeys, and discovered something even more wild: The animals learn which items humans… READ THE REST
How to avoid loneliness by creating an imaginary friend
Tom Hank's character in Cast Away maintained his sanity by painting a face on a volleyball, naming it Wilson, and having deep (one-sided) conversations with it. Number Five from The Umbrella Academy befriended a partial mannequin he named Dolores, which kept him company during a multi-decade post-apocalypse that was bereft of other humans. In his… READ THE REST
Stefania Follini was isolated in a cave for 131 days for science
To study circadian rhythms, scientists recruited a 27-year-old Italian interior designer to live in a small shelter built in a cave below Carlsbad, New Mexico for several months. Soon, her sense of time and her body functions all changed dramatically. This interesting program compares Stefania with the miners trapped for 69 days in the 2010… READ THE REST
With 18 courses and over 460 hours of training, this is the CompTIA certification bundle you've been waiting for
With so many different protocols, competing frameworks, and differences of opinion floating around, it's often tough for the text industry to come together and agree on virtually anything. However, time and circumstance can occasionally come together to codify a certain app, tool, or technique as the one true way to get things done. When it… READ THE REST
Lightkey Pro predicts what you're going to write next – and can supercharge your texts, emails, and more
Thanks to machine learning, algorithms know us now as well as we know ourselves. Once artificial intelligence starts building a file on you and your habits, assessing data, then extrapolating outcomes, it becomes very clear how much we each follow our own particular patterns – and how easy it is for some smart AI to… READ THE REST
It's a desk lamp, a night light, and a gorgeous art piece – all wrapped up in one
When you buy an item to perform a task you need done, but there's such beauty to it that you'd gladly display it even if it did nothing at all, you know you've hit a sweet spot. The Tree of Lyte Motion Sensor Bird Night Light Tree and Illuminated Eggs by Lift Care absolutely fits… READ THE REST