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Sony saves the Cinerama Dome from becoming condos or sadness
Perhaps this Hollywood comeback is worth rooting for.
4 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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A YouTuber rebuilt a mercury light bulb discovered in 1675
In 1675, the French astronomer Jean Picard noticed something strange while carrying his mercury barometer through a dark room: the mercury glowed as it…
4 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live
When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank.
4 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground
RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground: two long stone walls converging into an enclosure…
4 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Turkmenistan’s “Gates of Hell” crater is finally going out after 54 years
The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert — 60 to 70 meters across, 30 meters deep, and burning since 1971 — earned the nickname “Door to…
5 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Why walking poles held behind you burn 20% more calories
Michael Ham, retired in British Columbia, listed his walking poles in the Cool Tools newsletter What’s in my NOW? and he wants you to know they are…
5 hrs ago
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Mark Frauenfelder
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The person who’d use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag
Some people would happily wreck your $1,000 suit to mop up a spill, because the small amount of utility it beats the hurt it causes you.
5 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of “white guy goes to Africa” pop
I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic “white guy goes to Africa” pop than, well, all that.
5 hrs ago
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Grant St. Clair
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The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro is a near-perfect speaker
You will have to work very hard to find a wireless speaker that sounds as good, no matter what sort of music you dig, as the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin…
5 hrs ago
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Séamus Bellamy
Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment
Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment
5 hrs ago
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Grant St. Clair
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Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen
Neal Stephenson writes his novels the way people did in 1850.
16 hrs ago
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Ellsworth Toohey
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U.S. Army finds out unlimited isn’t
Mission accomplished. Please upgrade your plan.
22 hrs ago
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Jason Weisberger
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