In Denver, someone figured out a 50 km loop that stops at 10 Taco Bells. Naturally, you would create an ultra marathon involving eating Taco Bell menu items.
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Taco Bell 50K marathon
In Denver, someone figured out a 50 km loop that stops at 10 Taco Bells. Naturally, you would create an ultra marathon involving eating Taco Bell menu items.
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Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. Then she had to record a love song for him
Karly Hartzman wries an essay about her breakup, yet having to record a love song. It’s full of lyricism and captures a certain feeling. I filled my Marvin the Martian cup with tequila on our neighbors’ porch next door. While swaying on the wooden porch swing, I ate collard greens with pork-jowl bits that my…
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Everynoise, the music genre explorer
Everynoise, the music genre explorer. You click a genre and get a sample. Selections skew electronic, but still fun.
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Geoguessing
Did you know that there are competitions surrounding identifying a certain geographic, location, a.k.a.geoguessing? Like, could you identify a location in 30 seconds based on a single image?
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Arcade cabinet art
Dan Sinker perused a collection of arcade cabinets, taking the colorful art, design and typography.
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Covid altering immune systems?
One idea is that Covid may be altering our immune systems. Malgorzata Gasperowicz, a Calgary based developmental biologist, says that if immunity debt fully explained rising infection counts we’d expect to see a uniform rebound across all pathogens. But we don’t, she says. For instance, a 2024 study of more than 4000 viral cases from…
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Will o the wisps explained
We may finally have a full explanation into how will ‘o wisps work. We knew methane and other swamp gasses were involved, but how did they ignite? As with the static electricity produced by stroking hair, fur, or carpet in the right conditions, the microlightning results from a buildup of opposing charges until the field…
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AI for science research
Top AI technologists are spurning major offers to start an AI focused company specializing in advancing science Dr. Agarwal is among more than 20 researchers who have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big A.I. projects in recent weeks to join a new Silicon Valley start-up, Periodic Labs. Many of them…
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Playing SimCity 2000 as adult
SimCity 2000 was a fun sandbox game as a kid, and looking back, building an airport first wasn’t a good choice. Ars Technia played the game with an adult lens. Can I live my values by sparing some money in a tight budget for homeless shelters or anti-smoking initiatives? Should I trust my police captain…
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Closed captions are all the rage
For various reasons is it any surprise closed captioning keeps growing in popularity? The poll suggests many young adults use subtitles because they are watching in noisy environments, whereas older adults choose them to better hear or understand what is being said. That makes sense to David Barber, a sound editor and mixer and president…