Oath Keepers co-founder Stewart Rhodes, who said he regrets not bringing guns to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, is on trial for seditious conspiracy. (His fellow co-founder, heavy metal… Read the rest of the article: Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' wife says "every moment he wasn't terrorizing us as a family he was preparing to terrorize the rest of the nation"
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Mark Frauenfelder Retro video game tech YouTuber ETA Prime shows the tech travel gear he brings with him on the road. I really like the messenger bag he has, which held an… Read the rest of the article: ETA Prime shows what he keeps in his cool tech travel bag
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Mark Frauenfelder This grid of green lines in the Twitter embed below looks wavy, but if you move your eyes along any one of the lines, you will discover that it's straight.… Read the rest of the article: Straight lines look wavy in this striking optical illusion
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Mark Frauenfelder Hurricane Ian has left Florida, but the damage it has wrought will take years to repair. NPR sent photographers to the areas hardest hit by the hurricanes. The pictures show… Read the rest of the article: NPR's photo gallery reveals Hurricane Ian's path of destruction
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Mark Frauenfelder Conveniently ignoring the fact that right-wing domestic terrorism is on the rise in the United States, Majorie Taylor Greene told an audience of frightened MAGA cultists that "Democrats want Republicans… Read the rest of the article: Marjorie Taylor Greene to audience: "I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings."
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Mark Frauenfelder I demand that the Discovery channel gives this ensemble of septuagenarian motorcycle outlaw cosplayers their own reality show. Look at the swell performance they gave for the Gratiot County Republican… Read the rest of the article: New GOP ad for Michigan governor targets the elder biker outlaw segment
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Mark Frauenfelder Heritage Auction's upcoming auction of Harlan Ellison's estate contains a wealth of memorabilia, including a photo of young Harlan flanked by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner in full character costume.… Read the rest of the article: Harlan Ellison auction includes the world's most (in)famous "Star Trek" photo
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Mark Frauenfelder Researchers Pablo Burraco and Germán Orizaola went to Chernobyl in 2016 and found Eastern tree frogs with an "unusual black tint." This species is typically bright green. They learned that… Read the rest of the article: Frogs evolved black skin to adapt to radiation in Chernobyl
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Mark Frauenfelder Putting a dummy in front of an ATM to make other people needlessly wait in line isn't a very nice thing to do, but when these customers finally figure out… Read the rest of the article: Someone set a mannequin in front of an ATM to tease other customers waiting in line
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Mark Frauenfelder Some pet stores sell puppies on an installment plan with annual interest rates of 199%, making an already-expensive puppy ($5,000 or more) cost $20,000 in the long run. Some states… Read the rest of the article: States crack down on predatory 200% pet store loans
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Mark Frauenfelder In an interview with the excellent Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, Alex Jones sarcastically screams that he personally killed the murdered children in the Sandy Hook massacre. He also admitted… Read the rest of the article: Andrew Callaghan interviews an even-more-unhinged-than-usual Alex Jones
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Mark Frauenfelder White noise is static, a blend of all audible frequencies. It's hissy and harsh. I prefer brown noise, which attenuates higher frequencies and increases lower frequencies, giving it a richer… Read the rest of the article: New York Times on the "cult of brown noise" aficionados
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Mark Frauenfelder Teenage Engineering, maker of the OP-1 portable synthesizer and the Pocket Operator synthesizers collaborated with Pentagram's Yuri Suzuki and Japanese company Gakken to seemingly rebrand Gakken's record cutter for making… Read the rest of the article: Adorable device from Teenage Engineering lets you cut your own vinyl record
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Mark Frauenfelder Millions of people in Florida are without power as a result of Hurricane Ian's devastation. This time-lapse of a surge in Fort Myers reveals the catastrophic power of the hurricane.
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Mark Frauenfelder Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a blunt message to Russian soldiers, most of whom don't want to fight fight in Ukraine: "If you wanna stay alive — RUN. If you… Read the rest of the article: Watch Zelenskyy's message to Russian draftees: "If you want to stay alive — RUN"
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Mark Frauenfelder No wonder Russian men are trying to sneak over to Georgia — these videos of a Russian military barracks reveal the squalor that draftees must endure before being sent off… Read the rest of the article: Secret video of barracks for Russian draftees: filthy, garbage-strewn, and overcrowded
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Mark Frauenfelder Cassie, a robot that looks disturbingly like a person without an upper body, ran 100 meters in 24.73 seconds at the Whyte Track and Field Center in Corvallis, Oregon yesterday,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a bipedal robot break the world record for the 100-meter dash
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Mark Frauenfelder It took me a while to figure out which person was wearing the high heels in this photo. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused.
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Mark Frauenfelder The announcers in this NFC championship football game didn't know whether to focus on the players on the field or the bizarre incident in the stands, where a man in… Read the rest of the article: Video: at 1978 pro football game, a spectator dressed as a snowman caught on fire
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Mark Frauenfelder Ohio's new abortion law was designed to please Republicans who want to force children to have their rapist's baby. The law counts fetuses as children and doesn't make an exception… Read the rest of the article: Ohio GOP officials denied abortions to at least two more raped children who got pregnant