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amateur firefighters Man delivering newspapers notices a restaurant on fire and puts it out himself
Carla Sinclair

wild foraging Do you know the Mushroom Man who lives in Jamaica Plain?
Thom Dunn

Awhatukee House of the Future Remembering the Awhatukee House of the Future, a "shining home of dreams" that became a $3 tourist trap
Cory Doctorow

Science The most detailed image of the sun
Rob Beschizza

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two-state solution Jared Kushner says Palestinians screw-up every opportunity they've ever had, in celebration of a proposed two-state deal that he left them out of
Thom Dunn

useful things Good deal on an excellent cat scratching post
Mark Frauenfelder

Saipan Airline forced woman to take a pregnancy test before flying to US Territory
Mark Frauenfelder

teaching a human to shake Watch: Michael Bloomberg greets a dog by shaking his, uh, mouth
Carla Sinclair

pheromones Sex pheromone named after a character in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" changes mice brains
Mark Frauenfelder

phone spam Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam
Xeni Jardin

Someone paid US$100,000 for the safety and arming plugs from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
David Pescovitz

data leak United Nations was hacked in July 2019 and kept it quiet, despite its own staff being at risk
Xeni Jardin

gundam Coming soon to Japan: a 60-ft walking Gundam robot
Mark Frauenfelder

all the justice money can buy Q: What caused Stepford senators in GOP? A: Campaign contributions from Trump's lawyers
Carla Sinclair

sleeping sickness Watch a tsetse fly birth a shockingly big larva. Gross! Amazing!
David Pescovitz

chinese spyware US Interior bans Chinese drones and UAVs with made-in-China parts over espionage concerns -- with few exceptions
Xeni Jardin

world news Putin has no opinion on proposal to be renamed "Supreme Leader"
Mark Frauenfelder

card tricks A fun simple card trick from The Curiosity Show
Mark Frauenfelder

aggregators There's a new news aggregator called "Knewz" and I can't believe they actually called it that
Rob Beschizza

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims
Rob Beschizza

jump scares Crawlspace, an effective four-minute horror short
Rob Beschizza

barks Pug has "strange" bark
Rob Beschizza

gadgets Ace your taxes in 2020 with this CPA-led Quickbooks training
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advertising McDonaldland commercial from 1970
Rob Beschizza

tabletop gaming Black Magic Craft unboxes a full-color 3D-printed Hero Forge miniature
Gareth Branwyn

free chelsea An update from Chelsea Manning's support team on her ongoing incarceration
Cory Doctorow

conservative PACs Anti-Trump Conservative PAC launches a brutal attack ad against Arizona Senator Martha McSally
Thom Dunn

gadgets Save the planet one sip at a time with this reusable straw
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