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A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
The Hiroshima blast alloy, a 7-element metal grain, formed in the fireball of 6 August 1945.
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Ellsworth Toohey
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
A GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away preceded a New Mexico medevac crash that killed 4 people.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
The Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii captured vortices spaced 50 to 65 km apart, driven by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
A NASA panel is setting a Mars dust exposure limit, drawing on what 12 Apollo moonwalkers learned.
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
Fairground streams AI-generated films, series, and shorts around the clock, including a Roman battle scene and a medieval drama with lunar physics.
2 hrs ago
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Rob Beschizza
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Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2026 index ranked Osaka seventh and Tokyo tenth, the only Asian country with two cities in the top 10.
5 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Boing Boing, August 7, 2026
Neo-Nazi ad payouts, a 1898 internet prophecy, and a legally mandated "Y'all"
22 hrs ago
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Boing Boing
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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
Indiana regulators approved a Phase III water-quality permit in June for the Fort Wayne project despite resident and environmental objections.
22 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
This self-proclaimed Los Angeles superhero's name is causing peace-loving citizens to mistake him for something else.
22 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Facebook monetization sent nearly $3 billion to 16.2 million accounts in 2025, some breaking its rules.
Aug 7
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
Twain's 1898 telelectroscope story made the daily doings of the whole globe visible from a prison cell.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
Ten Rhijne's 1683 De Acupunctura passed through 4 languages and turned qi into a trapped wind.
Aug 7
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Popkin
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