Sometimes you hear something as a kid that sets a barbed hook in your mind, like when my mom told me she once fell asleep wearing hard contacts back in… Read the rest of the article: Contact lens applicators and misappropriated memories

The 7 dog years to 1 human year fallacy was empirically corrected when a research team published their 2017 Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging by Conserved Remodeling of the DNA… Read the rest of the article: Dog Years is to Human Years as 7 is to 1 = Wrong

Amongst the capabilities lost to antiquity like Damascus steel and Ulfberht swords, Roman concrete with it's Wolverine'esque regenerative capabilities that allows it to weather centuries like no concrete made by… Read the rest of the article: Researchers reverse-engineer Roman concrete

Depending upon where one is from, Decimal Point, Decimal Comma, or both notations are used as a Decimal Mark to separate integers from the fractional portion of a number. Decimal… Read the rest of the article: Do you use a point or comma as decimal separator?

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making ("NPRM") that would "ban employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers, a widespread and often exploitative practice that… Read the rest of the article: FTC proposes new rule to ban non-compete clauses

As a ramen aficionado who cut his teeth by unsuccessfully cooking Neoguri, Maruchan and Top Ramen in my 90s dorm room Mr. Coffee, ramen hacks are a favorite thing for… Read the rest of the article: Add Kewpie mayonnaise + 1 egg to instant ramen for extra kokumi

YouTube's algorithm served me a video in December that delved into Japanese synthetic rubber cutting boards used by sushi chefs, and one video led to another and then another, and… Read the rest of the article: You are so worth an Asahi synthetic rubber cutting board

Kokumi is another word that just about everyone has experienced and understands, however without an actual "word", the topic is an internal one for most and thus goes undiscussed; hanging… Read the rest of the article: Kokumi: The sixth-ish taste that adds richness and depth to savory foods

A species of wild dog hailing from Japan, the tanuki's appearance and behaviors match that of the common racoon via convergent evolution where two genetically unrelated species evolve similar traits… Read the rest of the article: Tanuki: The Japanese Racoon Dog

Rally legend Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident January 2, 2023. Ken Block's legacy will live on in the hearts of motorsports enthusiasts around the world. Trapped in… Read the rest of the article: Rally legend Ken Block dead at 55

Elisha Bixler shows what happens when a honeybee changes it's mind after stinging and can CTRL-Z the disembowelment by "going round and around" to work the barbed stinger free.

Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon offered a wealth of cool sci-fi concepts: fluidity of consciousness enabled by the Cortical Stack, coupled with Digitized Human Freight, Experia flicks, and first-person POV mindbites.… Read the rest of the article: Tik Tok clips bring us closer to Altered Carbon-style"mindbites"

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team recently published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that details Halteria eating chlorovirus when deprived of other food sources: To… Read the rest of the article: Virovores: organisms that thrive by eating viruses

The Kuna has been in circulation since May 30, 1994, and is slated to be replaced with the Euro on January 1, 2023 as Croatia becomes the 20th nation to… Read the rest of the article: Croatia's Kuna to be replaced with Euro when it joins Eurozone tomorrow. The old money's good until Jan 14, 2023

It took Media Division 3 years to create it's "unique large format movie camera with lens that is equivalent to an impossible 29mm f0.3 lens", by combining two Large Format… Read the rest of the article: Custom large-format glass equivalent to "impossible" 29mm f0.3 lens

The latest Ju-Jitsu variant hails from Russia, and removes the striking and kicking component but does allow parts of the car like the seatbelts, headrests, steering wheel, etc. to be… Read the rest of the article: Car + Ju-Jitsu = Car-Jitsu

Previously on Boing Boing, Mark Frauenfelder wrote about why cats "slow blink" at people, and it's one of those forehead slapping moments when I learned that you can slow blink… Read the rest of the article: Slow blinking to a cat is a way of saying "I Trust/Love You"

Variants of a video have been making their way across the web, showing a flipbook style "collage" of Bob Ross's paintings sequenced into a "timelapse" that traces a river upstream… Read the rest of the article: Bob Ross's paintings didn't paint a whole journey over time, but an AI Bob Ross did

A polar opposite of the Minnesota Long Goodbye, the [Insert Nation Name Here] Goodbye/Leave/Departure/Way has morphed from it's original ill-mannered connotation, into a mark of cultured sophistication. Leaving a party… Read the rest of the article: Irish Goodbye = French Leave = English Departure = Polish Goodbye = Dutch Leave

From it's inception, Pixar enhanced its cinematography step by step, with innovations both subtle and visceral to the average viewer. Evan Puschak: "Now I say significantly, but that's in terms… Read the rest of the article: Nerdwriter1 exposes the real fake cameras of Toy Story 4