Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson recently became the first rock climbers to complete a free ascent of The Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite. Read the rest

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“What’s happening in the world of AI is not just an important topic, but by far THE most important topic for our future,” writes Tim Urban. Read the rest

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His technique is a revival of an ancient form of archery that has largely been lost. Read the rest

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The terror organization this week released a video showing two Japanese citizens held captive. Read the rest

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History of the World in 1000 Objects opens up with a simple stone handax for cutting and digging made around 1.65-million years ago and ends, 999 artifacts later, with satellites and smart phones. Read the rest

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This video is so beautiful. Crank the resolution way up to 4K and enjoy. Read the rest

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It has been a while since I read a superhero novel. Meta, by Tom Reynolds, was all the fun I expected.

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El Grand Chamaco is an artist from Los Ramones, Mexico. (more…)

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From Futility Closet: "He’s known as Mimal, after the states that make him up: Minnesota (hat), Iowa (head), Missouri (shirt), Arkansas (pants), and Louisiana (boots). Fittingly, the chicken is Kentucky and the tin pan is Tennessee." (more…)

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After the beard on King Tutankhamun's iconic burial mask was knocked off during cleaning (or removed because it was loose), it was quickly glued back on with epoxy, resulting in a crappy and permanent fix to the 3,300 year-old artifact. Read the rest

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Everyone's favorite inflight microbe spreading vector, the Skymall catalog, is filing for bankruptcy protection. (more…)

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Sounds kinda yummy. Read the rest

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Our friends at Adafruit have published their delightful coloring book "R Is For Robots!" You can buy a print copy for $9.95 or download the CC-licensed digital file for free!

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Unvaccinated people are being officially warned by California epidemiologists to avoid Disneyland in the wake of a measles outbreak. In some counties in California, more than 1 in 5 kindergartners are unvaccinated due to "personal belief exemptions." Read the rest

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I'm back to reading about zombies! Peter Meredith's The Apocalypse is a very different take on the standard zombie story.

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Here's a followup to my earlier post about McDonald's fries. In 2013 Food Babe posted the ingredients for McDonald's fries in the US and in the UK. Read the rest

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Grant Imahara visited McDonald's fry factory and found out what they are made of. Keep in mind this video series was made by McDonald's and I don't know if McDonald's had a final say on what went into it, but it's still interesting to see how these fries are made and how many ingredients are used to make them: 19 (really, 14, since some of the ingredients are used twice during the process).

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The Folio Society interviewed master printer Stan Lane about the classic craft of letterpress printing. "Feeling print in paper... you know someone's actually been there." Read the rest

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The intelligence and security journalist has already served more than two years in prison for charges related to his proximity to sources within the hacktivist entity known as Anonymous. Read the rest

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A friend gave my dog the Hol-ee Roller ($6) in January, and my dog and I like it so much that I have since started to phase-out other dog toys.

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