Donald Trump is threatening a Twitter employee, on Twitter, just after Jack Dorsey tweeted to leave his employees out of this. The drama continues.

“Test counts inflated, death tolls deflated, metrics shifted.”

Enjoy Daniel de Bruin's wonderfully-produced video of a miniature marble machine being made from a) exactingly precise stuff from the workshop parts drawer, b) a Pruser Mini 3D printer, and… Read the rest of the article: Miniature magnetic marble track

The LA Times has observed that COVID-19 infection rates are falling in wealthier enclaves while gaining traction in poorer communities. Denser living conditions, higher populations of 'essential' workers, and historic… Read the rest of the article: COVID-19 grows in Los Angeles's poorer communities

“You don’t want to wear a mask fine, but you don’t have a right to go into that store if that store owner doesn’t want you to.” — NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo

In this Cool Tools video, Sean Michael Ragan reviews a wall-mounted thread-checker – a handy thread verifier for nuts and bolts. It measures 3" wide by 39" tall, and, like… Read the rest of the article: Useful wall-mount thread checker

The Action Lab Man introduces binary arithmetic when demonstrating the cool Turning Tumble marble-powered computer.

Stop-and-go waves of dense freeway traffic can flow backward for miles. This TED-Ed video explains the phenomenon of "phantom traffic jams" and shows how self-driving cars that are aware of… Read the rest of the article: What are "phantom traffic jams" and how can technology get rid of them?

After Trump threw a tantrum over Twitter doing the bare-minimum to fact-check his deliberately misleading tweets, Trump announced plans to sign an Executive Order that forces social media to "protect"… Read the rest of the article: Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media

The Lincoln Project has dedicated a video to Kentucky's US Senator Mitch McConnell. They highlight his history of self-enrichment and failure to help Kentucky out much.

Tony Hawk first learned to ride a skateboard in 1979 when he was 11 years old. The board was the 1975 Bahne pictured above. Now, that board is in the… Read the rest of the article: Tony Hawk's first skateboard is now in the Smithsonian

Latonya Lark wrote on Facebook: My prior delimer… Mr Turtle was found at fault but he did not have insurance. He got escorted to the Wildlife reserve, I got stuck… Read the rest of the article: Flying turtle smashes through Georgia driver's windshield

Seattle maker Brennen Johnston wanted his friends to play Animal Crossing with him but they couldn't get their hands on a Nintendo Switch, a scarce commodity amid COVID-19 lockdowns. Enraged… Read the rest of the article: Watch: How to build your own Nintendo Switch

Ford is testing new software for its Police Interceptor Utility Vehicles that heats the vehicle's interior to 133 degrees for 15 minutes to kill COVID-19. Ideally, this happens when nobody… Read the rest of the article: Ford police SUV heats its interior to 133 degrees to kill COVID-19

Today, Trump will announce his executive order against social media companies, the day after Twitter added a fact-checking note to two of Trump's misleading tweets. Surprising nobody, Trump's draft order… Read the rest of the article: Here's what's in Trump's executive order against social media companies

On Tuesday evening, the night before NASA astronaut Bob Behnken was set to launch into orbit about a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule, he launched his own… Read the rest of the article: NASA astronaut Bob Behnken launched his own rocket on the eve of his historic trip to space that was scrubbed yesterday

If you're looking for more quarantine activities — for yourself, or your kids, or something to do together! — the British rock magazine Kerrang! is now offering coloring book variants of some… Read the rest of the article: Color in your favorite hard rockers with these Kerrang! cover coloring books

In my 90s childhood Star Wars obsession, I remember hearing a lot about the fabled NPR radio drama adaptations (read: "podcast") of the original trilogy. They were supposed to be canonical,… Read the rest of the article: Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy

Nate Powell is the writer and artist behind About Face, a brilliant webcomic about America's obsession with fascist fashion. His latest comic, Hide Out, is less of a macro-scale political analysis,… Read the rest of the article: A bleakly touching webcomic compares our apocalyptic fantasies to the real experience of coronavirus quarantine

IMGURian @KRANKARTA6 did an awesome topography visualization project in the "Ridgeline Style" that reminds us of the album cover for Joy Division's classic LP 'Unknown Pleasures.'