In the late 1980s, London's National Gallery got a new wing thanks to a donation from Lord Sainsbury and his brothers. He objected to false columns added by the architect,… Read the rest of the article: Contractors renovating National Gallery wing find 1990 letter from donor praising removal of false columns
Six Jupiter-sized worlds may be seen in images captured by the Webb space telescope of NGC1333, a stellar "nursery" full of young celestial objects. In the young star cluster NGC1333,… Read the rest of the article: Webb telescope spots baby Jupiters in distant nebula
Is the "earthy" scent of Crayola unique to that brand? The company filed for U.S. trademark protection on a distinctive sensory aspect to its crayons, and it was awarded last… Read the rest of the article: Crayola receives trademark on the earthy, leathery, clay-undertoned scent of crayons
"Chocolate breakthrough" sounds like a euphemism for something unpleasant, but in this case it's good news: Swiss scientists report successfully making chocolate with the entire cocoa fruit rather than just… Read the rest of the article: "Chocolate breakthrough" reported by Swiss scientists
Trump-appointed Federal Judge Aileen Cannon was expected to do it all along and eventually did, tossing the case against him for refusing to return classified documents that he took from… Read the rest of the article: Special counsel Jack Smith appeals Judge Cannon dismissing Trump's classified documents case
U.S. Navy computer scientist and COBOL inventor Grace Hopper gave a famed lecture in 1982 that was recorded using an obsolete video medium for which no player now exists. Yesterday,… Read the rest of the article: NARA recovers famed 1982 Grace Hopper lecture recorded on obsolete media format
Len Salt, mayor of the sparsely-populated Thames-Coromandel District on the coast of New Zealand, offered a succinct reply to a sovereign citizen who requested private informationa about council staff: "Go… Read the rest of the article: Mayor to sovereign citizen demanding private information about staff: "Go f✴ck yourself"
A $100 million gift to the country's national parks is the largest ever received, reports the National Park Service, and will have a "transformative" impact. It comes from Lilly Endowment,… Read the rest of the article: $100m gift to the National Park Service is "transformative"
Aussies bothered by their bosses at home can now rest assured they cannot be punished for ignoring such after-hours demands. Lawmakers there passed a "right to disconnect" bill designed to… Read the rest of the article: Right to disconnect law passes in Australia: workers may ignore after-hours messages
Martin Shkreli paid a reported $2m for the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a beautiful artifact that he thereby agreed to make… Read the rest of the article: Martin Shkreli ordered to surrender copies of Wu-Tang album
Pavel Durov, the CEO of private messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France this weekend and charged under various spectacular crimes—terrorism, pedophilia, fraud, etc.—on the rationale that the company's failure… Read the rest of the article: Telegram CEO arrested in France
Trumpy Trout is a real product. The ads run on "Newsmax." It exists at a place where the partisan payload of it hardly matters any more, a place where meaning… Read the rest of the article: Trumpy Trout is real and it can hurt you
CNN's panel of "undecided voters" broke overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris after her DNC speech, but one—just one!—said that was his moment to pick Trump. Bryant Rosado: "She wasn't clear enough… Read the rest of the article: Only CNN "undecided voter" to pick Trump turns out to be longtime Trump guy
A shopper had staff at the Louis Vuitton store in Chongqing's StarLight Place shopping mall spend hours counting out 600,000 yuan, worth $110k, then left without buying the expensive dresses… Read the rest of the article: Shopper claims she had Louis Vuitton staff spend hours counting $110k in cash, then left without buying anything
That Twitter is where you buy guns now is one of the funniest things about the Musk era there, but there's something even funnier about the press only waking up… Read the rest of the article: The Houthis are selling machine guns on Twitter. They even have blue checks.
Robert Telles, 47, lost the Democratic Party primary for Clark County Public Administrator in Nevada after reporting by Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. German was killed outside his home… Read the rest of the article: Vegas politician accused of murdering reporter admits their articles cost him a win
Open Source Game Clones lists hundreds of them, from Oolite to Freeciv with many you haven't heard of in-between, categorized and ordered for your entertainment. This site tries to gather… Read the rest of the article: Open source clones of classic video games
The New York Times offers a roundup (apparently not paywalled) of places you can get some free video games, including on consoles. Whether you own a PlayStation, a smartphone, or… Read the rest of the article: Where to get free games
I regret to inform you that you must stop licking brightly-colored books published in the Victorian era. The dyes are poisonous. The latest research on these poisonous books used three… Read the rest of the article: Hands off: Victorian books laden with toxic dyes
The official announcement is expected later today, but the paperwork is already in—at least in Arizona. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quitting the U.S. presidential race. Kennedy, his vice-presidential running… Read the rest of the article: Arizona paperwork reveals Robert F Kennedy Jr has ended presidential bid
