The International Space Station will be outfitted with a new toilet later this fall. The current commode is based on 1990s technology used on the Space Shuttle. From Space.com: It… Read the rest of the article: The Space Station is getting a nice new toilet
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David Pescovitz In Murray, Kentucky, Gallery X Art Collective tattoo artists Jeremiah Swift and Ryun King are offering free sessions to cover up racist tattoos for people who have changed their minds… Read the rest of the article: Tattoo parlor offers free sessions to cover up of racist symbols
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David Pescovitz Dating back to the 19th century, occultists, engineers, and hoaxers have employed new audio technology to communicate beyond the grave. This includes wax cylinders, white noise generators, AM radios, hacked… Read the rest of the article: Ghost boxes, psycho-phones, and other devices for listening to spirits
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David Pescovitz Alien: Low-budget Remake Watch this video on YouTube. It's been five years since the recycling auteurs at Cardboard Movie Co. released "Jurassic Park: Low-budget Remake." Now they are back with… Read the rest of the article: Watch this ridiculous and wonderful low-budget remake of Alien, by the Cardboard Movie Co.
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David Pescovitz HAMR-Jr: small and dextrous. Presented at ICRA 2020 Watch this video on YouTube. Built by researchers at Harvard and the University of Colorado, the Harvard Ambulatory MicroRobot (HAMR) is just… Read the rest of the article: A speedy, scurrying bug robot the size of a penny
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David Pescovitz Internet Loving Watch this video on YouTube. In the 1990s, country musician Ray Presnell wrote and recorded this delightful ditty, "Internet Loving." At YouTube, Presnell writes, "Internet Loving was an… Read the rest of the article: Listen to "Internet Loving," an earnest and delightful country ditty from the 1990s
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David Pescovitz Mechanic Easily Fixes Defective Turn Signal || ViralHog Watch this video on YouTube. "She says the turn signal won't stay engaged when making a right turn." thumbnail image: detail of… Read the rest of the article: Watch this mechanic fix a customers' "broken" turn signal that, um, isn't really broken
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David Pescovitz Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul (Official Audio) Watch this video on YouTube. Since the pandemic began, Bob Dylan has released his first two songs in almost a decade, "Murder… Read the rest of the article: A rare, new interview with Bob Dylan
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David Pescovitz Like many boozemakers, Apollo Bay Distillery in Victoria, Australia pivoted their production from alcoholic beverages to hand sanitizer when COVID-19 hit. Unfortunately though, nine bottles of their SS Casino Gin… Read the rest of the article: Distillery accidentally sold gin bottles filled with hand sanitizer
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David Pescovitz Mikro heykeltıraştan mercimek büyüklüğünde satranç takımı Watch this video on YouTube. Turkish sculpture Necati Korkmaz makes tiny works of art, most of which can only be fully appreciated with a… Read the rest of the article: Sculptor creates the world's tiniest chess set, the size of a thumbtack
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David Pescovitz Stormtroopers wearing upside down helmets are far less intimidating. Search Google for many more memetastic upside down Stormtrooper helmet gags. (And yes, I realize that the cap of the helmet… Read the rest of the article: Stormtroopers wearing upside down helmets look silly and happy
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David Pescovitz In Bristol, England, anti-racism protestors pulled down a bronze statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston and rolled it into the River Avon. Banksy, who is thought to live… Read the rest of the article: Banksy's brilliant idea to make "everyone happy" after activists pulled down Bristol slave trader statue
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David Pescovitz Present & Correct, designer office/stationery online retailer and curator of a wonderful Instagram account, posted this fantastic collection of Lego computers. Quite a few appear to have integrated displays. As… Read the rest of the article: The various Lego computer interfaces
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David Pescovitz The US government announced funding clinical trials on three COVID-19 vaccine candidates. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, we're still on track… Read the rest of the article: Fauci: US government announced funding of three vaccine trials, on track for scale by end of the year/early 2021
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David Pescovitz atari cops boot up and play hi-tech arcade repair 586-790-4860 Watch this video on YouTube. Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? In 1994, Atari released COPS, a LaserDisc-based videogame… Read the rest of the article: COPS, the Atari arcade videogame from 1994 based on the now-cancelled "reality" TV show
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David Pescovitz A Class Divided (full documentary) | FRONTLINE Watch this video on YouTube. On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Riceville, Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott ran… Read the rest of the article: After MLK's assassination, this schoolteacher conducted a legendary social experiment to teach kids about racism
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David Pescovitz Great Barrier Reef: drone footage allows researchers to count 64,000 green sea turtles Watch this video on YouTube. More than 64,000 endangered sea turtles are gathered in the world's largest… Read the rest of the article: How do you count more than 60,000 sea turtles?
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David Pescovitz Keep It Real Online – Pornography Watch this video on YouTube. "Many young Kiwis are using porn to learn about sex." The New Zealand Government released this PSA as part… Read the rest of the article: Funny (and true) PSA about helping kids understand that porn isn't reality
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David Pescovitz Later this year, Studio Ghibli will release Aya to Majo (“Aya and the Witch"), a new feature film from Hayao Miyazaki. The animation auteur's son Goro Miyazaki directed the film,… Read the rest of the article: New Studio Ghibli film coming this year from Hayao Miyazaki and son Goro Miyazaki
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David Pescovitz Looney Tunes Cartoons: Dynamite Dance Watch this video on YouTube. In the new Looney Tunes Cartoons series on HBO Max, Elmer Fudd no longer carries his signature rifle. “We’re not… Read the rest of the article: Elmer Fudd's gun gone in new Looney Tunes Cartoons