If you don't get chills from the ASMR audio experience of Tingle Monsters, then you'll definitely get them from the looming tension and sheer overwhelming sexist dread that oozes throughout this… Read the rest of the article: "Tingle Monsters" is an incredibly unsettling ASMR feminist horror film
The CO2 Coalition is a non-profit climate denial organization with deep pockets supported by the Mercers, the Kochs, and other conservative fossil fuel financial interests. Despite the demonstrable unreality of… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers
The city of Lopburi om Thailand has allegedly been overrun by gangs of wild macaques, resulting in several "no-go zones" for humans. As one resident told The Guardian: "We live… Read the rest of the article: Macaques have colonized a city in Thailand and converted a movie theatre into a cemetery
The critters at the Atlanta Botanical Garden look oddly … metallic? From the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Their newly developed SlothBot is built to study animals, plants and… Read the rest of the article: The Slothbot is a slow-moving, energy-efficient observation robot that's also an adorable sloth
From Boston.com: Amid mounting criticism, Gov. Charlie Baker Tuesday defended a proposal — tucked inside a larger bill to create a state certification system for law enforcement officers — to provide up to $5,000 bonuses for police… Read the rest of the article: Massachusetts governor proposes a $5000 bonus for cops who undergo anti-racist training
The North Carolina-based No Evil Foods presents itself as a socially-conscious, values-driven manufacturer of vegan foods. They claim to be the fastest-growing meat alternative in the country, currently available at… Read the rest of the article: A supposedly progressive vegan food company called No Evil Foods was involved in some evil union busting
During a Congressional hearing on June 16, 2020, top legal officers from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps acknowledged the results of a 2019 study from the… Read the rest of the article: The US military is allegedly investigating the cause of racial disparities in the US military
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland have attempted to isolate the Neanderthal DNA from certain human stem cells. A leader on the project, Grayson… Read the rest of the article: Swiss scientists grew mini Neanderthal brains in petri dishes
Last summer, I worked with IBM and the Weather Channel on some climate- and energy-related content for their Forecast Change campaign. I just learned that the project apparently won a… Read the rest of the article: Floatovoltaics are a cool way to super-charge your solar panels with water
Following up on their advice on how to safely topple a statue using science, Popular Mechanics has another great new article on dealing with LRAD (long-range acoustic device) cannons. A popular… Read the rest of the article: Handy advice for dodging and disarming the sonic weapons used by militarized police
The English language is full of weird, unofficial rules that dictate certain grammatical changes for seemingly arbitrary reasons other than "it just feels right." Consider: inserting the word "fuck" into… Read the rest of the article: A great fucking explanation of expletive in-fucking-sertion
A record-breaking number of Kentuckians have registered to vote this year, when Lovecraftian demon Mitch McConnell is up for another term in the Senate. A slight majority of those voters… Read the rest of the article: Kentucky Election Board conveniently cuts 3,500 polling stations ahead of primaries
From NPR: The new order — which is expected to come with broad exceptions — comes as the administration continues to wrestle with high unemployment among American workers because of… Read the rest of the article: Trump is reportedly planning to try, once again, to suspend H-1B and other visas through the end of the year
I have been frequently awed by Ta-Nehisi Coates's thoughtful observations on politics and race in America. But I'll be honest: I was somewhat disappointed by his first run of Black… Read the rest of the article: Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history
This video was made a group of security researchers based at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The Lamphone, as they call… Read the rest of the article: How to spy on someone using a lightbulb as a remote microphone
36 years after the release of David Lynch's film adaptation of Dune, that famous flop is still finding new ways to surprise me. Like this Dune Activity Book — not to… Read the rest of the article: A children's book recipe for "No-Bake Spice Cookies," inspired by David Lynch's DUNE
Adrian Brandon is a Seattle-raised and Brooklyn-based visual artist, whose "Stolen" collection was originally displayed at his first public solo show in November 2019 at 263 Bowery in New York.… Read the rest of the article: A powerful portrait series of Black Americans killed by police that uses time as a visual medium
There's no way to explain this any better the creator, Franzoli Electronics, explains it in the description: The main loud music really comes from the tesla coil sparks. They are… Read the rest of the article: "Africa" by Toto performed entirely on electrical zaps from Tesla Coils
Adam Schlesinger has long been a songwriting hero of mine, and I was absolutely heartbroken when I learned that he had passed away from COVID-19 complications in early April. He… Read the rest of the article: New Adam Schlesinger tribute album features covers by Rachel Bloom, Charly Bliss, Sarah Silverman, Nada Surf, and many many more
A new article from Nature describes the discovery of a 100-million-year-old fossilized reptile egg with a soft, leathery shell that's nearly a foot long. It's the second-largest egg fossil ever discovered… Read the rest of the article: Largest known soft-shell reptile egg discovered in Antarctica
