Look at this dial that controls the temperature of an ice cream freezer Gracie's Ice Cream, in Somerville, Massachusetts.. If you want to make the freezer colder, do you rotate… Read the rest of the article: Clockwise or counterclockwise? This freezer control dial is maddeningly confusing
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Mark Frauenfelder Cats are renowned for their agility and lightning-fast reflexes, and this video showcases their abilities in action. With reaction times ranging from 20 to 70 milliseconds, cats are a staggering… Read the rest of the article: This video of cats escaping crabs, snapping turtles, and snakes reveals their lightning reaction time
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Mark Frauenfelder Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, is poised for financial disaster, despite its recent public debut and inflated $5 billion valuation. As reported by Jonathan Wolf at Above the… Read the rest of the article: Truth Social's inflated $5 Billion valuation will leave MAGA minion investors broke, says finance expert
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Mark Frauenfelder The Taliban announced that they are returning to the "good ol' days" when raped women were flogged and stoned to death in public. The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, justified… Read the rest of the article: Taliban announces it will start stoning women to death in public
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Mark Frauenfelder What happens when you attach a hot dog to a long stick and touch it to an AM radio broadcasting tower? It talks! From the YouTube description: DO NOT TRY… Read the rest of the article: Deadly AM radio tower experiment: hot dog speaks on contact
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Mark Frauenfelder Nothing says MAGA like a Georgia Republican official who loudly trumpeted the Big Lie that the 2020 election was "stolen" from Donald Trump and was then caught illegally casting ballots… Read the rest of the article: Georgia GOP official who cried "stolen election" voted illegally 9 times, and is a felony check forgery convict
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Mark Frauenfelder "The short skirt that you chose to wear could be distracting to some folks in your audience. The issue with clothing that encourages fantasy is that it has the potential… Read the rest of the article: "The short skirt that you chose to wear encourages fantasy" — 75-year-old professor's sick email to honors presentation student
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Mark Frauenfelder It looks like Trump has found his dream Attorney General in Mike Davis, a man who hates democracy almost as much as he loves putting kids in cages. If you… Read the rest of the article: Trump's top AG pick hates democracy, loves cages for kids
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Mark Frauenfelder Anthony Sabatini is a strange fellow. The former member of the Florida House of Representatives seems to think DEI caused the Singapore container ship to lose its power before hitting… Read the rest of the article: "DEI did this" Florida MAGA rep blames DEI for bridge collapse. Check out The Wire creator's response
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Mark Frauenfelder Donald Trump, a professional Bible-salesman and amateur pussy grabber, is set to go to trial next month on 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records related to alleged hush money payments… Read the rest of the article: Despite gag order, Trump throws tantrum against judge and daughter
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Mark Frauenfelder The vaquita ("little sea cow"), the world's smallest cetacean found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, has seen its numbers plummet from around 600 in the late 1990s to 10-13… Read the rest of the article: Vaquitas are adorably tiny porpoises and there are only about 10 remaining
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Mark Frauenfelder In a trademark display of hypocrisy, Elon Musk's Twitter has pledged to pay the legal fees for Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, a Canadian physician who lost a defamation lawsuit she… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk's hypocrisy: funding a lawsuit that silences free speech
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Mark Frauenfelder Hours after Donald Trump's latest Truth Social rant attacking Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter, the judge overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial has slapped him with a gag order,… Read the rest of the article: Trump's attacks on judge and daughter earn him another gag order
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Mark Frauenfelder Rudy Giuliani lost his assets, income, and reputation in an attempt to overthrow the United States government for his pal, Trump. Trump repaid him by eating his face. And yet,… Read the rest of the article: Rudy Giuliani's descent into debt and despair at Mar-a-Lago: a "nightmare world" of bankruptcy
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Mark Frauenfelder When Olga Loiek, a 20-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania, started a self-empowerment YouTube channel in November, she never imagined her face would be stolen and end up in… Read the rest of the article: College student's face stolen for pro-Russia deepfakes in China
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Mark Frauenfelder In 2019, a viral video captured an encounter between Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, and Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist,… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court rejects MAGA teen's defamation lawsuit
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Mark Frauenfelder You can reduce stress with a simple daily practice lasting no longer than 20 seconds, according to Eli Susman, a UC Berkeley PhD candidate in clinical science. As reported by… Read the rest of the article: Try this 20-second stress relief technique: UC Berkeley research
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Mark Frauenfelder Elon Musk's "thermonuclear lawsuits" against watchdog groups are turning out to be wet firecrackers. In a significant legal setback for Musk, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer has dismissed Twitter's lawsuit… Read the rest of the article: Judge slams Twitter's attempt to silence hate speech watchdog
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Mark Frauenfelder A SWAT team terrorized an innocent St. Louis County family last May, all due to a pair of stolen AirPods and questionable police tactics. Brittany Shamily and her family, including… Read the rest of the article: Innocent St. Louis family terrorized in SWAT raid over stolen AirPods
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Mark Frauenfelder Chocolate lovers, brace yourselves for a bitter truth: cocoa prices have gone bonkers, hitting record highs as the world faces a massive shortage of the beloved bean. A combination of… Read the rest of the article: Hot chocolate! Cocoa prices hit all-time highs amid global supply shortages