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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    1:30 pm Mon, Sep 2, 2024
    Alzheimer's breakthrough: Cancer drug wakes up sleepy brain cells in mice and human brain cells Orla/Shutterstock.com

    The brains of people who have Alzheimer's can't use glucose effectively. That's because a natural enzyme in the body called indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) becomes overactive and disrupts how the brain… Read the rest of the article: Alzheimer's breakthrough: Cancer drug wakes up sleepy brain cells in mice and human brain cells

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:17 am Mon, Sep 2, 2024
    AI Sir David Attenborough: Cybertruck's lamprey-like dependency on flatbed trailers Cybertruck in search of a flatbed trailer host (mikeledray / Shutterstock.com)

    Best use of AI voice cloning yet: Sir David Attenborough reveals the Cybertruck's parasitic nature and its lamprey-like attachment to flatbed trailers.  From the transcript: Here we see the Cybertruck… Read the rest of the article: AI Sir David Attenborough: Cybertruck's lamprey-like dependency on flatbed trailers

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:53 am Fri, Aug 30, 2024
    Laser-cut by giants? How did this massive rock in the Saudi Arabian desert get split so cleanly? By Disdero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

    In the Saudi Arabian desert, there's a 20-foot by 30-foot sandstone rock that's split cleanly down the middle. A parallel gap of only a couple of inches separates the two… Read the rest of the article: Laser-cut by giants? How did this massive rock in the Saudi Arabian desert get split so cleanly?

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    8:45 am Fri, Aug 30, 2024
    Passengers lock screaming toddler in airplane toilet to "educate" her BaLL LunLa/shutterstock.com

    Two women aboard a flight from Guiyang to Shanghai on August 24 locked a crying toddler in the airplane's toilet, claiming they wanted to "educate her" after passengers got fed… Read the rest of the article: Passengers lock screaming toddler in airplane toilet to "educate" her

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:12 am Thu, Aug 29, 2024
    7-Eleven is lying to you about the Japanese Egg Salad sandwich coming to America A 7-Eleven near Mount Fuji (Terence Toh Chin Eng/shutterstock.com)

    Recently, 7-Eleven in the United States announced it was bringing the famous $2 Japanese 7-Eleven egg salad sandwich to the United States. Fans of the creamy tamago sando were guardedly… Read the rest of the article: 7-Eleven is lying to you about the Japanese Egg Salad sandwich coming to America

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    4:28 pm Tue, Aug 27, 2024
    Japan's smallest hotel room: A cramped stay for two A double room at Hotel Accela in Tokyo is just $36 a night.

    A double room at Hotel Accela in Tokyo's Minamisenju neighborhood is just 5,200 yen (approximately US$36) a night. It features air conditioning, free Wifi, air conditioning, a large public bath,… Read the rest of the article: Japan's smallest hotel room: A cramped stay for two

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:56 am Tue, Aug 27, 2024
    Trump's grip on independent voters plunges 8 points Boing Boing/Flux

    A new poll from Florida Atlantic University Political Communication, Public Opinion Research Lab and Mainstreet Research USA shows Kamala Harris leading the septuagenarian felon and pussygrabber by 4 points. Most… Read the rest of the article: Trump's grip on independent voters plunges 8 points

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:55 am Tue, Aug 27, 2024
    Over 200 ex-GOP officials warn of "irreparable damage" to democracy if Trump wins in 2024 Boing Boing/Flux

    In an open letter, over 200 Republicans who worked for the Bush, McCain, and Romney administration warned that "another four years of a Trump presidency would irreparably damage our beloved… Read the rest of the article: Over 200 ex-GOP officials warn of "irreparable damage" to democracy if Trump wins in 2024

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    12:38 pm Mon, Aug 26, 2024
    Teflon: Miracle invention or slow-acting poison? Why not both! Happy Pan (1957) was the first commercially available Teflon coated frying pan. trozzolo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Teflon was accidentally discovered in 1938 by DuPont chemists while they were trying to develop new refrigerants to replace dangerous, explosive ones used in the 1920s-30s. Rudy Molinek wrote a… Read the rest of the article: Teflon: Miracle invention or slow-acting poison? Why not both!

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:57 am Mon, Aug 26, 2024
    Organic food myths busted: Why you might be wasting money on "healthier" options An organic greenhouse eggplant (Katerina Maksymenko/shutterstock.com)

    "Any consumers who buy organic food because they believe that it contains more healthful nutrients than conventional food are wasting their money." says Joseph D. Rosen, emeritus professor of food… Read the rest of the article: Organic food myths busted: Why you might be wasting money on "healthier" options

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    12:30 pm Fri, Aug 23, 2024
    Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement Twitter screengrabs of racist content with World Bank Advertising

    The World Bank has stopped all paid advertising on Xitter after its ads appeared alongside racist and pro-Nazi content, according to a CBS News investigation. The ad appeared in the… Read the rest of the article: Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    12:09 pm Fri, Aug 23, 2024
    MAGA turns on Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberals on voting rights Image: Amy Coney Barrett; US Supreme Court

    MAGA is furious with Amy Coney Barrett for not being blindly obedient to the wishes of Donald Trump. MAGA's best and brightest minds — like Xitter addict catturd2 — expressed… Read the rest of the article: MAGA turns on Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberals on voting rights

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    11:26 am Fri, Aug 23, 2024
    How Chase froze $180k and left a tech consultant scrambling Image by Tallmaple / shutterstock.com

    A machine learning engineer and consultant named Jason Liu wrote about how Chase bank froze $180,000 of his money with no warning. He couldn't make payroll, and Chase refused to… Read the rest of the article: How Chase froze $180k and left a tech consultant scrambling

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    10:00 am Fri, Aug 23, 2024
    Desperate Donald claims he'll be "great for women's reproductive rights" Boing Boing/Midjourney

    Trump's Project 2025 spells out his Handmaid's Tale future: halting sales of the abortion pill, reviving the Comstock Act to ban abortion equipment from being sent through the U.S. Postal… Read the rest of the article: Desperate Donald claims he'll be "great for women's reproductive rights"

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    12:38 pm Thu, Aug 22, 2024
    JD Vance fumbles through painful small talk with donut shop employees in viral campaign stop fail JD Vance pretends to order donuts during an awkward encounter with workers (C-SPAN)

    If I didn't know better, I'd think this video clip of JD Vance having an awkward conversation with bored employees at a donut shop was a scene from a Christopher… Read the rest of the article: JD Vance fumbles through painful small talk with donut shop employees in viral campaign stop fail

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    11:47 am Thu, Aug 22, 2024
    Ex-crack addict turned Trump loyalist harasses boy at DNC event Mike Lindell (Consolidated News Photos/Shutterstock.com)

    Mike Lindell, the My Pillow founder who traded his addiction to crack for an addiction to MAGA hogwash, shaved his mustache to go incognito to this year's Democratic National Convention.… Read the rest of the article: Ex-crack addict turned Trump loyalist harasses boy at DNC event

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    9:21 am Thu, Aug 22, 2024
    Short AI movie: What if Trump took psychedelics and dropped out of politics? The Transmutation of Donald Trump/Twitter

    Most people have wondered what would happen if Donald Trump flew to South America's Orinoco basin and drank a bowl of ayahuasca. But until now, their answers were limited by… Read the rest of the article: Short AI movie: What if Trump took psychedelics and dropped out of politics?

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    8:10 am Thu, Aug 22, 2024
    MAGA experts: Polls showing Harris lead are "almost like election meddling" Newsmax/Media Matters

    In MAGA land, any poll that doesn't give Trump a huge lead is faulty. All true Americans favor Trump. But the small minority of Americans who are communists run the… Read the rest of the article: MAGA experts: Polls showing Harris lead are "almost like election meddling"

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    3:10 pm Wed, Aug 21, 2024
    Violent road-raging Tesla driver up for parole after serving less than one-year of a five-year sentence Violent road rager Nathan Radimak

    Good news for people who like to go around smashing things with a steel pipe and stalking and threatening seniors: you could get out of prison sooner than you think.… Read the rest of the article: Violent road-raging Tesla driver up for parole after serving less than one-year of a five-year sentence

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  • Mark Frauenfelder
    2:06 pm Wed, Aug 21, 2024
    Detroit judge faces lawsuit after detaining and humiliating a sleeping 15-year-old during a courtroom field trip Detroit Judge Kenneth J. King, sued for handcuffing a homeless student who fell asleep in his courtoom while on a field trip

    The mother of a 15-year-old girl is suing Detroit Judge Kenneth J. King after he handcuffed and detained her for falling asleep while on a field trip to his courtroom,… Read the rest of the article: Detroit judge faces lawsuit after detaining and humiliating a sleeping 15-year-old during a courtroom field trip

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