English performer and actor David Bowie released Hunky Dory, his fourth album, in 1971 when he was 24. Rolling Stone calls it the 88th greatest album of all time, and… Read the rest of the article: On the 50th anniversary of Hunky Dory, here's a bit of David Bowie trivia
TikToker @dumpsterdivingfreegan posts regular "dumpster diving hauls" to expose extreme waste, and a recent video of a particularly fruitful trip to a Whole Foods dumpster has gotten traction online. It… Read the rest of the article: Viral video shows perfectly good food in a Whole Foods dumpster
In early 2021 31-year-old Huge Ma started a side project on top of his job as a software engineer at Airbnb. Frustrated by clunky government vaccine portals, he spent two… Read the rest of the article: Huge Ma, the software engineer dubbed "Vax Daddy," is running for New York State Assembly
The @Ukraine Twitter account has posted a meme joking that living next to Russia is a real headache. The move comes amid rising tensions between the two nations. U.S. intelligence… Read the rest of the article: Ukraine responds to rising tensions with Russia with a shitpost meme on Twitter
I enjoyed touring the world in the aptly named "The Earth-Nose-Direction game" created on observablehq.com, a collaborative data science workspace. You turn on your camera, allow the site to locate… Read the rest of the article: Learn geography by rotating the globe with your nose
Despite his rocky track record with social media, which includes a fictional cow for making fun of him on Twitter, Devin Nunes will be the CEO of Trump Media &… Read the rest of the article: R-CA Devin Nunes will resign from Congress to head Trump's new media company
The city of San Francisco has put forth efforts to remove the 1-5% tax on cannabis that was approved in 2018. The ordinance addresses the idea that black market dealers… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco delays cannabis tax so that dispensaries can compete with illegal dealers
Belgian-born mathematician Jaques Tits passed away on Sunday, December 5th, leaving behind a legacy of research in group theory and geometry. His tendency to name his contributions after himself suggests… Read the rest of the article: Jaques Tits, the mathematician behind Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric, has died at 91
On Friday, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard for the Big Island Summits, which include Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. The latter reaches 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it both the highest peak… Read the rest of the article: Massive snowstorm hits in Hawaii
Child molester Josh Duggar is back in the news this week as he goes on trial for the possession of child pornography (some of the "top five worst of the… Read the rest of the article: Jim Bob Duggar's testimony is deemed 'not credible' in son Josh Duggar's child pornography trial
I can't stop thinking about this bizarre, rousing interview in which Mark Johnson-Williams, the toymaker behind Tickle Me Elmo, recounts his years as a suspect in the FBI's investigation of… Read the rest of the article: The inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was a Unabomber suspect
Six years ago, Wanda Dench accidentally sent a Thanksgiving invite to seventeen-year-old Jamal Hinton, thinking it was her grandchild. Jamal pointed out the mistake but asked to join anyway, and… Read the rest of the article: Wanda and Jamal are getting a Netflix movie called The Thanksgiving Text
Videoconferencing service Zoom is faced with an $85 million lawsuit over privacy and security issues like third-party data sharing and Zoombombing. Zoom denies wrongdoing but agreed to pay the hefty… Read the rest of the article: Thanks to a class action settlement, some users can get up to $25 from Zoom
New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio has announced two safe injection sites located in Washington Heights and East Harlem. They won't be staffed by the city, but instead by… Read the rest of the article: NYC is opening the first safe injection sites in the US
Oroville, California has been around since the gold rush (hence the name) and today, it is home to about 20,000 people. This month, a declaration passed by the City Council stated… Read the rest of the article: To protest Covid mandates, California town declares itself "constitutional republic"
Hey, why not pause to think about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life? Galactic colonization? The Drake equation? The intelligent beings that might be listening to the Golden Record at this… Read the rest of the article: Why not take a moment to ponder the Fermi Paradox?
Via The Times: It is created from short strands of DNA, the substance that carries genetic code and which forms a twisting double helix structure inside living cells. The researchers… Read the rest of the article: Scientists have invented a plastic alternative made of sperm
A man put a comically large cardboard cutout of himself in a convenience store, documented the experience for TikTok, and wound up with a full-blown partnership with the Kum &… Read the rest of the article: How this normal guy got an "influencer meal" at a convenience store chain
PETA's not new to outlandish and sometimes-offensive publicity stunts (remember when they claimed milk caused autism?). The group's latest is a satirical online store selling goods made of "human" leather.… Read the rest of the article: PETA launches "human" leather goods store that seems right out of a horror movie
Mashing up emojis probably isn't high humor nor high art, but it might make you chuckle. A site called emojimix allows you to make unlikely combinations like coffee plus octopus,… Read the rest of the article: Make your own bizarre emoji combinations
