In May 1974, locked inside California's Vacaville Prison, Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson put together a manuscript they called The Periodic Table of Energy — a system of correspondences… Read the rest of the article: A prison manuscript maps the periodic table onto Tarot and the zodiac
"Surveillance Monitor" gets a new meaning. LG's screens have apparently entered their "consent is someone else's problem" phase: some monitors can trigger silent Windows software installs, while some LG TV… Read the rest of the article: LG monitors install spyware; LG TVs make wiretapping your problem
The internet is the world's most efficient copy machine, and everything it touches — music, movies, books, code — slides toward a price of zero. In an essay called "Better… Read the rest of the article: Eight things you can still sell when digital copies are free
Trump Border "Czar" Tom Homan's message is clear: when masked men come for you, surrender first and ask questions after they bash your head into the pavement. Make the violence… Read the rest of the article: Tom "Bag o' Cash" Homan says people killed by ICE should have complied
Andrew Tate, the misogynist influencer facing rape and sex-trafficking charges in multiple countries, was arrested in Miami this weekend, putting another accused sex offender from Trumpworld's orbit back in the… Read the rest of the article: Andrew Tate, another accused sex offender in Trumpworld's orbit, arrested in Miami
California already had feral pigs. Then a Monterey County landowner added Russian wild boars for sport hunting, and nature responded with a century-long "absolutely not." Like many problems in California,… Read the rest of the article: California's wild pig problem started when a rich guy imported Russian chaos hogs
Spain won the World Cup, but Grandpa Pudding Brains saw a gold trophy, cameras, and a stage, so naturally he seemed to assume the ceremony had taken a wrong turn… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he won the World Cup
Trump's FDA appears to have shat the bed on the cyclospora outbreak: a major lettuce recall disrupted the food chain, the outbreak kept spreading, and now the agency says its… Read the rest of the article: Cyclospora: Trump's FDA shits the bed
It seems the "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer is here, giving away all the goodies. Disney needs money, so they've packed this with as many people as they could, including the characters… Read the rest of the article: Disney bravely waits one movie before resurrecting dead Avengers
Every tool has two ends: the business end that does the work, and the end that meets your hand. Manufacturers obsess over the first and skimp on the second, which… Read the rest of the article: Four cheap ways to fatten a tool handle so it stops hurting your hand
In December 1958, a Soviet expedition reached Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the continent farthest from any coastline: 1,400 kilometers inland and 3,700 meters up in the coldest… Read the rest of the article: Resin Lenin presides over Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility
Sergio Furnari, a Sicilian-born New York sculptor, plans to unveil a life-size Charlie Kirk statue in Times Square on the first anniversary of Kirk's assassination. But the announcement drew thousands… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding campaign for $100k Charlie Kirk statue languishes
Florence Foster Jenkins (1868 – 1944) has been called the worst opera singer who ever lived, and she filled Carnegie Hall anyway. A wealthy New York socialite, she sang coloratura arias… Read the rest of the article: The worst opera singer who ever sold out Carnegie Hall
Indiana's State Personnel Department booted a burger truck from the Statehouse Market over its slogan, "you'll love our meat in your mouth," but a First Amendment scholar suspects the state… Read the rest of the article: "You'll love our meat in your mouth" slogan gets food truck booted from berth
In October 2000, a stunning discovery hit the antiquities market in Pakistan: a mummy in a gilded coffin, wearing a golden crown, with a cuneiform inscription identifying her as Rhodugune,… Read the rest of the article: The $11 million mummy that turned out to be a fake
Minutes before she was to be killed at a slaughterhouse in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a three-year-old, 1,600-pound heifer named Emily cleared the five-foot gate and ran. She stayed loose for 40… Read the rest of the article: A cow escaped a slaughterhouse and hid for 40 days
Mexico's Ministry of Health has issued a travel advisory for citizens heading to the United States, where foodborne parasites have infected more than 1,600 people. The advisory was published by… Read the rest of the article: Mexico warns travelers of "Explosive Diarrhea Risk" in USA
Most people remember Pinocchio as a story about lying: tell a fib, your nose grows. But the late tech writer Om Malik argued in an essay that reading "misses almost… Read the rest of the article: The original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies
For most of human evolution, the air held about 300 parts per million of carbon dioxide. It has now surpassed 420 and is climbing by more than 2 ppm per… Read the rest of the article: Rising CO2 may already be showing up in human blood — a "potentially toxic atmosphere in 50 years"
TL;DR: Snag a lifetime family license to VideoProc Converter AI for Windows for only $29.97 (MSRP $119.90) through tonight at midnight. It happens to the best of us — you capture something incredible… Read the rest of the article: This $30 AI tool can transform old, blurry videos in just a few clicks (MSRP $120)
