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Xbombing

from The Wall Street Journal SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Are Photobombing Astronomy Images, Study Says Streaks left by passing satellites mar observatories’ celestial images, potentially hinder spotting of dangerous asteroids By Aylin Woodward As the armada of satellites circling Earth grows, a new study shows that astronomy images are being marred by streaks of reflected sunlight left […]

Gold Cube

from The U.S. Sun Mystery as gold cube worth $11.7million ‘pops up’ in NYC’s Central Park – and it has its own security guards by Frances Mulraney A MYSTERIOUS gold cube worth an estimated $11.7million appeared in New York’s Central Park on Wednesday morning accompanied by its very own security detail. The cube, composed of […]

Magnet Fishing

from Military Times Florida boy reels in .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifles while fishing By Sarah Sicard Over a balmy winter weekend in South Miami-Dade, Florida, a young boy and his grandfather set out to fish along a canal. What they reeled in weren’t fish, but holy mackerel were they a catch. Duane Smith was shocked when his […]

Pilbarra

from BBC Is the Pilbara the oldest place on Earth? by Dan Avila (Credit: Dan Avila) Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilised evidence of the Earth’s oldest lifeforms.I In recent years, science has confirmed what Aboriginal Australians, the world’s oldest continuous living culture, always knew: […]

Trappedverse

from WIRED My Family Is Trapped in the Metaverse Virtual reality isn’t great, but it’s a lot better than dealing with everything else out there. by Adrienne So ON A WHIM, I recently started rewatching Ready Player One, the Steven Spielberg adaptation of Ernest Cline’s seminal novel about a future in which virtual reality is the real world. In the opening […]

B-O-L-O-G-N-A Mask

from c|net Oscar Mayer bologna-inspired face mask hydrates and horrifies My bologna face mask has a first name. by Amanda Kooser Maybe don’t wear this out in public.Oscar Mayer I have no idea what’s in bologna. The off-pink deli meat is something I haven’t thought about since childhood. Then along comes meat-maker Oscar Mayer with […]

First Sleep, Second Sleep

from BBC The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ By Zaria Gorvett It was around 23:00 on 13 April 1699, in a small village in the north of England. Nine-year-old Jane Rowth blinked her eyes open and squinted out into the moody evening shadows. She and her mother had just awoken from a short sleep. […]

The Beautiful Model

from The Conversation The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything The Standard Model. What a dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in physics of the last century are direct inputs to or direct results of the […]

Pokerbots

from The New York Times How A.I. Conquered Poker Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. By Keith Romer Last November in the cavernous Amazon Room of Las Vegas’s Rio casino, two dozen men dressed mostly in sweatshirts and […]