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A preventable outbreak: measles spreads where vaccines didn’t
Measles is ripping through South Carolina, with nearly 100 new cases reported in days.
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE approval drops 30 points in a year as Americans call tactics “too forceful”
Americans have soured on ICE.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Buckminster Fuller’s 1943 sleep hack: two hours a day, split into half-hour naps
“Sleep is just a bad habit.” So declared Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion house, in a 1943 TIME…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
This tool lets communities auction shared resources and split the proceeds
TinyLVT is a web app that applies a 19th-century economic idea to modern resource-sharing problems.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Sydney’s collapsing rock formation: $300 fines ignored
Wedding Cake Rock is a sandstone formation in Sydney’s Royal National Park that looks exactly like a slice of wedding cake — white, layered, and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Centrist Democrats now open to impeaching Noem over ICE shootings
For most of the past year, Democrats who floated impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were on the fringes.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Antarctica’s oldest iceberg is turning blue and about to disintegrate
Iceberg A-23A has been around since 1986, when it broke off from Antarctica at nearly twice the size of Rhode Island.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, January 09, 2026
A mother's slaying by ICE, frost flowers, and the QAnon Shaman's next move
 • Boing Boing
Gmail set to become even more intrusive
Outside the world of open-source computing, it’s getting pretty hard to escape artificial intelligence being jammed down our throats for even the most…
 • Séamus Bellamy
Blind rescue opossum has been surrogate mom to over twenty orphans
I just found a new opossum to obsess over!
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Wayward sheep invade German supermarket
A German supermarket was overrun by about fifty confused sheep, causing chaos and a torrent of memes.
 • Gail P Sherman
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! Buy from trans and nonbinary scouts
It’s everyone’s favorite time of year again — time to order Girl Scout Cookies!
 • Jennifer Sandlin
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