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Thanks, Trump! — here’s what happens when the world runs low on helium
Helium boils at 4.2 kelvin — colder than anything else on the periodic table.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
How did the FBI recover Signal messages from a deleted app?
Deleting a Signal message from your iPhone doesn’t necessarily delete the message.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Proton is letting parents reserve a child’s email before birth
By the time most kids are old enough to understand what a privacy policy says, they’ve already spent years inside Gmail.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A group of 200 chimps had a civil war
Between 2018 and 2024, one faction of chimpanzees at Uganda’s Kibale National Park killed 7 adult males and 17 infants from a rival group.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
15 pages a day turns you into a reader of 40+ books a year
Jake Worth, a programmer who went from a non-reader to 44 books last year, credits one rule above everything else: read at least 15 pages every day.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The appeal of AI girlfriends isn’t the AI — it’s that she can’t say no
Men are turning to chatbots for romantic and sexual roleplay in rising numbers, and philosopher Isaac Shur thinks the reason has less to do with…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Two condors quietly attempt a comeback humans nearly erased
Turns out, when you stop poisoning and shooting a species for a while, it might just try to exist again.
 • Jason Weisberger
Floating Bosch Parade returns to the Netherlands in June
The annual Floating Bosch Parade celebrates the fantastical painter Hieronymus Bosch.
 • Popkin
Buried CDC report says vaccines work, funny how that keeps happening
Let’s keep pretending the problem is the data, not the people trying to hide it.
 • Jason Weisberger
What to do if Amazon killed your Kindle
As Rob pointed out last week, Amazon is killing support for a number of its older e-readers.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Masked gunman who menaced students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop
When high school kids in Phoenix staged an anti-ICE walkout in January, a masked man with a handgun approached the students and refused to leave.
 • Rob Beschizza
Easter play crane malfunction sends Jesus actor too far into the sky
A video of a Jesus actor ascending into the sky indefinitely made me laugh so hard that I think I scared my neighbors who can hear me through my open…
 • Popkin
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