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Maryland the first state to regulate grocery surveillance pricing
Surveillance pricing is when a retailer sets the price of something based on what they know about you: your address, your income, your interests, your…
 • Rob Beschizza
Loveland Frogman could become Ohio’s official state cryptid
The Loveland Frogman is a 4-foot-tall, bipedal frog turning up in Ohio folklore since the 1950s.
 • Rob Beschizza
22 Buddhist monks arrested in drug bust at Sri Lanka’s main airport
Customs officers in Sri Lanka scored the island nation’s biggest weed bust of all time on Sunday, finding 242 pounds of potent Kush cannabis in the…
 • Rob Beschizza
Woman refused to end call for plane safety instructions
Shannon Marie Harris of Tyrone, Georgia, was charged with trespassing after the plane she was on had to return to the gate because she refused to end…
 • Rob Beschizza
XOXO festival archived online
XOXO was a festival for internet artists and creators hosted by Andy McMilland and Andy Baio, held in Portland throughout the 2010s and again in 2014.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, April 29, 2026
Cosmic rays, fired scientists, and an AI from 1930
 • Boing Boing
This British family of 8 disappeared into ISIS territory in October 2015 and have never been found
A week before Farzana Ameen disappeared from Bradford, England in October 2015, she flew to Pakistan, left her bedridden mother with relatives there…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Days before warning report, all 22 National Science Board members fired in two-sentence email
Just days before it was set to warn that the United States is losing ground to China in science and technology, every member of the National Science…
 • Jason Weisberger
Scientists found ice with a 304-molecule repeating pattern
Ice-9, in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, is a fictional polymorph of water that stays solid at room temperature and converts every drop it touches into more…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Antarctic detector captured 13 radio pulses from cosmic rays in ice
Neutrinos pass through the entire planet without stopping.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Researchers built a language model that thinks it’s still 1930
What are the proper rules of etiquette for a gentleman when calling upon a lady at her home?
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang gave a pastor’s Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922
Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton “Captain Billy” Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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