Snail Mail Security
When held up to the light no useful information can be gained through a security envelope....
What if we designed a game show after a deadly fiction game show?
Inside Netflix's 'Squid Game' Reality Show Disaster: 'The Conditions Were Absolutely Inhumane' [Variety]. What could possibly...
'My work feels more like that of a detective than an editor'
Lucy Scholes (Prospect, 01/25/2023), "Meet the archive moles": "There's a growing band of people digging through...
Stacy's Aunt is Really Kind of Hot...
Anadvora is an adorable nerd person on Youtube who posts songs, video essays and other stuff...
I cannot handle my son’s crying. I’m an adult male btw.
Love this personal essay about the stress of parenting This is the only advice we've ever...
Drug Decriminalization in Oregon
After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Ballot...
thirtysomething Bobi is a good old dog
A 30-year-old Portuguese dog has been named as the world's oldest ever by Guinness World Records...
Some Days, the Viewing Felt Like a Curse
I watched Groundhog Day every day for a year. Here's what I learned 'We bow at...
TGA approves psilocybin & MDMA for use in treating Depression & PTSD
Therapeutic Goods Administration approves psilocybin & MDMA for use in treating Depression & PTSD. Australia's medical...
Get closer to Johannes Vermeer with Stephen Fry
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, in collaboration with the Mauritshuis in The Hague, has organized a blockbuster exhibition this...
On learning te reo Māori
A growing number of non-Māori New Zealanders are embracing learning te reo – but there's more...
Remember Y2K? A similar issue will happen in the year 2038.
The wikipedia article is an good overview. TLDR: some computers keep time by tracking seconds since...
Gaming Like It's 1927!
That's A Wrap On The Public Domain Game Jam! Techdirt has just concluded their fourth annual...
Saving Icarus
On the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Ars Technica published two articles; the...
Google Curated
Wonders of Street View Use the "Link" button to link to a specific image, or to...
Let's Talk About Menopause
Women have been misled about menopause Hot flashes, sleeplessness, pain during sex: For some of menopause's...
how we got this national fable
Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of the...
Into the Heart of Me
Artifact, Relic, and Monument The story of Coil's 'Tainted Love,' the first musical AIDS benefit and...
A Conversion of the Dodoes
By 1681, Didus ineptus would be gone, by 1710 so would every last settler from Mauritius....
The British MP who faked his death and ran away to Australia
Philanderer? Fraudster? Spy? The British MP who faked his death and ran away to Australia. He...
Overall The Place Really Blew
There's no way you could write a script so tedious and lacking in drama as Tape...
Police Save Baby Ducks. Often.
[Warning, some links have autoplaying video/sound] Police Save Baby Ducks. Police Save Baby Ducks. Police Save...
I Cut 100 Foods with a Pizza Cutter
Receipes you can make with a pizza wheel [slyt] Come for the review of how well...
An unusually close glimpse of black hole snacking on star.
The Moon doesn't currently have an independent time. It's time for another look at humanity's exploration...
John Markoff discusses his biography of Stewart Brand at The Well
"He has stood his ground, but it ended a number of close friendships including his association...
Making Math into Art
A series of posters that visualize all three-digit prime numbers through geometry and color.
Mac & Cheese Blue
"Kraft has seen the American people through economic hardship, world wars, and social movements. It is,...
The Quizzing Equivalent of Holey Moley
A few weeks ago, Yogesh Raut (previously on MeFi) walked onto the Alex Trebek Stage and...
Gone Fission
Hello, Monday, it's dear friends. Hi, yes, I'm totally awake, and I have a short quiz...
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I've spent much of my adult life doing what I loved as a child: asking questions...
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Secret of the Spartans finally revealed
How Often Should You Do the Spartan 300 workout? ...answers your questions about the Spartan 300...
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's freedom of speech at 1090 MHz
ADS-B Exchange has been sold for 20 million to private equity Jetnet and the volunteer data...
Well, that's rich. Or is it?
What does it mean to be rich in America, where the elite need to re-earn their...
Regional textile economies (aka soil-to-skin)
Each year, the United States produces enough wool to create millions of sweaters. But a big...
In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats
In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats. In Korea cat owners...
This Is Not Laid Back
Almost ten minutes of a cutesy depressed anthropomorphic bread undergoing existential torture, a daily occurence for...
Time Sync
CERN engineer Daniel Valuch discusses synchronizing a pendulum clock with the ALPHA Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock.
Is Yunchan Lim’s Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto the greatest ever?
Yunchan Lim is South Korean pianist who June became the youngest ever winner of the Van...
The Violin Doctor
He's trusted to repair some of the world's most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage...
Monterey Park & Half Moon Bay: One week
LATimes has many news articles about what happened at Monterey Park: honoring the victims' lives, how...
Low-income people need ‘15-minute cities’ the most
"Those who think "15-minute cities" are for wealthy urbanites should consider this graph from a recent...
Free pedicures at the beach
Mitchell Varela gets his pedicures done by one of the most unlikely sources: a cast of...
Chronophoto
Chronophoto is a game in which you guess the dates of some photos — the closer...
They're all good dogs.
The 2022 Dog Photography Awards. Be sure to look at the Finalists tab for lots more...
...a thrill similar to flying an F-4 fighter jet, but, um, on the ground
The Rezvani Vengeance is a quarter-million dollar SUV designed exclusively for idiots [Kotaku.com] "You know where...
The horse has a sensitive digestive system
Farmer, artist and writer Lynn R. Miller on working horses: "There are fewer rules to working...