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  • newWarframe’s next chapter will explore a new star system
    The next chapter of Warframe is coming, and it’s taking players across the stars to Tau. The Old Peace will be Warframe’s year-end update. Developer Digital Extremes revealed limited but exciting details about the story at its annual TennoCon eve…
    - 11 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 5:00pm -
  • newWarframe is going full Catholic
    Finally, there will be a Warframe for every letter of the alphabet — and the last to arrive is a devil-themed character named Uriel. The new playable character will be part of a side story that will be released alongside Warframe’s year-end updat…
    - 11 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 5:00pm -
  • newWarframe is getting a tabletop RPG from Pathfinder publishers
    Warframe is coming to a dining room table near you. Developer Digital Extremes is collaborating with Pathfinder creator Paizo Games on a new TTRPG module for Warframe, using Paizo’s Starfinder system. They’ve created a standalone tabletop adventu…
    - 11 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 5:00pm -
  • newLagoon Layer fossil locations in Donkey Kong Bananza
    In Donkey Kong Bananza, you’ll need to find fossils on the Lagoon Layer if you want to buy any swanky clothes or fur dye for Donkey Kong and Pauline. While fossils like ammonite are just about everywhere (and using DK’s sonar clap will help you f…
    - 16 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 12:12pm -
  • newEveryone can play Soulframe, the fantasy Warframe, right now
    If you’ve ever wanted to kill someone with a leaf and adopt a wolf puppy, now is your chance: Soulframe’s pre-alpha build is open to the public for a limited time. Soulframe: Preludes is being made available to anyone who has signed up on the Sou…
    - 16 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 12:00pm -
  • newAll Kong Bananza City Smash Banandium Gems in Donkey Kong Bananza
    The Kong Bananza: City Smash challenge in Donkey Kong Bananza is a little confusing initially, courtesy of the fractone running the challenge telling you absolutely nothing about what to do. Smashing concrete is only part of the job. If you want all…
    - 17 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 11:49am -
  • newThe Divide Banandium Gem locations in Donkey Kong Bananza
    In Donkey Kong Bananza, The Divide is the fourth layer that’ll you descend into, and its full of pink and blue goo — and a few Banandium Gems (golden bananas). The Divide is a fairly short level, so it’s extremely easy to blitz through and miss…
    - 17 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 11:04am -
  • newSouth Park is imploding: the lawsuit debacle putting the show’s future in jeopardy
    South Park, on the cusp of its 27th season, is caught in behind-the-scenes turmoil that now threatens the show’s future. At the center of the conflict is the $8 billion acquisition of Paramount by David Ellison’s Skydance Media, a deal that has b…
    - 18 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 10:08am -
  • newPokémon Go ‘Summer Concert’ event guide
    Pokémon Go is hosting a “Summer Concert” event from July 19-22, though the event perks will only actually be active from 5-8 p.m. each day in your local time. As part of the event, music composed by Junichi Masuda will be playing during the shor…
    - 19 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 9:29am -
  • newAll right, that’s plenty of Soulslikes
    Next week sees the release of the very cool-looking Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, an action game where you play as a badass pirate warrior with amnesia. While figuring out what’s up with your memories (hell yeah), you spend your time fighting giant mon…
    - 19 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 9:00am -

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Wired

The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
- 7 Jun 20, 9:00am -
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
- 1 Jun 20, 9:00am -
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
- 31 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
- 30 May 20, 9:00am -
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
- 26 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
- 23 May 20, 9:00am -

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Geekologie

  • A longboarder's closest calls over 10 years of filming
    Lonboarder Josh Neuman put together this compilation of his ten closest calls while filming his longboarding over ten years. What he says about his number one closest call:What Happened: While on a production shoot we had one of the crew members…
    - 25 Aug 21, 2:57am -
  • Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
    This is incredible (chilling?) video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour.Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-bo…
    - 19 Aug 21, 5:27am -
  • Absolutely stunning and hypnotic stop-motion animation using matches
    This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn't impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made f…
    - 11 Aug 21, 2:22am -
  • This is a snownado
    Apparently snownados exist and if you guessed that they're dust devils but with snow you'd be correct. They're not nearly as interesting as Sharknados or firenados, but those are impossibly high bars for a 'nado. Keep going for another video of…
    - 10 Aug 21, 3:41am -
  • Surreal phone booth videos
    This is a series of surreal phone booth videos by TikToker solopsist. You may be wondering what a "surreal phone booth video" even is and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried, so I'll just let you experience them as I did. @solopsist There are…
    - 5 Aug 21, 2:59am -

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Geeks are Sexy - Technology News

Geeks of Doom

  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir Of Strahd
    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of StrahdHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy Delilah S. DawsonPublisher: Random House WorldsRelease Date: May 13, 2025 All things come full circle. This was a saying when I was younger and I ca…
    - 68 days ago 13 May 25, 3:39pm -
  • Kickstarter Spotlight: Glow #1-7: A Post-Apocalyptic Techno-Fantasy Odyssey
    I had to look through the GoD archives to see how long it had been since I first discovered Ray Chou and the wonders he and his teams create. It all started with a little project from his company Mythopoeia (now called Mythworks) called Skies of…
    - 69 days ago 12 May 25, 8:00am -
  • Book Review: Dragonlance Chronicles
    Dragonlance ChroniclesBooks 1-3: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring DawningHardcoverBy Margaret Weis & Tracy HickmanForeword by Joe ManganielloPublisher: Random House WorldsRelease Date: Februar…
    - 99 days ago 12 Apr 25, 11:17am -
  • Book Review: Just Beyond The Light by D. Randall Blythe
    Just Beyond The LightMaking Peace with the Wars Inside Our HeadHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy D. Randall BlythePublisher: Da CapoRelease Date: February 18, 2025A decade after D. Randall Blythe bared his soul in Dark Days,…
    - 5 Mar 25, 10:27am -
  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Monster Manual
    Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Monster ManualHardcoverD&D AccessoryWizards Of The CoastRelease Date: February 18, 2025Welcome, friends, to the third and final installment of the "Big 3" books for the 2024 refresh on your D&D books. The Dung…
    - 18 Feb 25, 4:03pm -
  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana: A Visual History (50th Anniversary Edition)
    Dungeons & Dragons: Art & Arcana: A Visual History (50th Anniversary Edition)Hardcover | KindleBy Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam WitwerForeword by Joe ManganielloPublisher: Ten Speed PressRelease Date: November 5, 20…
    - 17 Feb 25, 3:53pm -
  • Book Review: Stranger Things: The Dustin Experiment by J.L. D’Amato
    Stranger Things: The Dustin ExperimentHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy J.L. D'AmatoPublisher: Random House Books for Young ReadersRelease Date: October 29, 2024Geeky high school freshman Dustin Henderson finds an unlikely ally…
    - 10 Feb 25, 5:37pm -
  • Book Review: Gate To Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki
    Gate To KagoshimaBook 1: Ancestor Memories FantasyPaperback | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy Poppy KurokiPublisher: Harper PerennialRelease Date: January 28, 2025In Gate To Kagoshima, a new historical romance-fantasy that begins in ea…
    - 3 Feb 25, 9:52am -
  • Book Review: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
    Witchcraft for Wayward GirlsHardcover | Paperback Large Print | Kindle | AudiobookBy Grady HendrixPublisher: BerkleyRelease Date: January 14, 2025After being secreted away at a home for wayward girls, a desperate pregnant teen turns t…
    - 14 Jan 25, 11:28am -
  • Book Review: Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
    Wake Up and Open Your EyesHardcover | Kindle | AudiobookBy Clay McLeod ChapmanPublisher: Quirk BooksRelease Date: January 7, 2025An obsession with social media and far-right news programs sends an average American family into a downwa…
    - 7 Jan 25, 8:59am -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Dungeons & Dragons
    Hey there, folks! Welcome to another year of our Dungeons & Dragons Gift Guide!But wait, it is not just any other year; this is D&D's 50th Anniversary year! Half a century of what is arguably the greatest tabletop game ever. Holy moly, can yo…
    - 25 Nov 24, 8:13pm -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Books, Games, Collectibles & More!
    Greetings, Doomers! It's that time of year again -- time to start your holiday shopping!My favorite gifts to give and receive are BOOKS, which is why my Holiday Gift Guides are always book-centric. Over the years, I've found that it's great t…
    - 19 Nov 24, 7:30am -
  • Book Review: Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde
    Red Side Story Book 2: Shades of Grey Hardcover | Kindle Edition | Audiobook By Jasper Fforde Publisher: Soho Press Release Date: May 7, 2024 Jasper Fforde‘s Red Side Story, the long-awaited sequel to Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, dives…
    - 18 Nov 24, 7:30am -
  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms: Adventures from Greyhawk to Faerûn and Beyond
    Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms: Adventures from Greyhawk to Faerûn and BeyondHardcover | KindleBy Adam LeePublisher: Ten Speed PressRelease Date: October 29, 2024Good day, friends. I want to preface this review with the knowledg…
    - 14 Nov 24, 7:40am -
  • Book Review: Heroes’ Feast: The Deck of Many Morsels: 50 Cards for Conjuring Snacks, Libations, and Sweets
    Heroes' Feast: The Deck of Many Morsels50 Cards for Conjuring Snacks, Libations, and Sweets (Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes' Feast Series)Boxed Card SetBy Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Michael Witwer, Sam WitwerPublisher: Clarkson PotterReleas…
    - 13 Nov 24, 10:23am -
  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide
    Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Dungeon Master's GuideHardcoverD&D AccessoryPublisher: Wizards Of The CoastRelease Date: November 12, 2024And away we go, folks! The day has finally arrived for the much-needed revamp of the Dungeon Master's G…
    - 12 Nov 24, 7:30am -
  • Book Review: The Young Adventurer’s Collection Box Set 2 (Dungeons & Dragons 4-Book Boxed Set)
    The Young Adventurer's Collection Box Set 2Dungeons & Dragons 4-Book Boxed Set: Beasts & Behemoths, Dragons & Treasures, Places & Portals, Artificers & AlchemyPaperback Box SetBy Jim Zub, Stacy King, Andrew WheelerPublisher: Ten Speed Pre…
    - 7 Nov 24, 10:16am -
  • Book Review: A Haunting In The Arctic by C. J. Cooke
    A Haunting in the ArcticHardcover | Paperback | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy C. J. CookePublisher: BerkleyPaperback Release Date: February 27, 2024The mysteries of a shipwreck off the coast of Iceland are at the center of A Haunting i…
    - 29 Oct 24, 4:43pm -
  • Book Review: Wednesday: A Novelization Of Season One
    Wednesday: A Novelization of Season OneHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy Tehlor Kay MejiaPublisher: Random House Books for Young ReadersRelease Date: September 3, 2024Wednesday: A Novelization of Season One by Tehlor Kay Mejia…
    - 21 Oct 24, 5:59pm -
  • Book Review: The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
    The Hitchcock HotelHardcover | Kindle | AudiobookBy Stephanie WrobelPublisher: BerkleyRelease Date: September 24, 2024An imitate reunion of former college friends at a secluded Hitchcock-themed hotel leads to a deadly weekend in The H…
    - 17 Oct 24, 4:08pm -
  • Book Review: Puncheons & Flagons: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cocktail Book
    Puncheons & Flagons: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cocktail BookHardcover | KindleBy Andrew Wheeler (author) and Ashley Stoyanov (recipes)Publisher: Ten Speed PressRelease Date: August 27, 2024I am sure you've discovered something y…
    - 16 Oct 24, 10:16am -
  • Book Review: Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller
    Batman: ResurrectionHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy John Jackson MillerPublisher: Random House WorldsRelease Date: October 15, 2024In Batman: Resurrection, author John Jackson Miller returns us to the universe of director Tim…
    - 15 Oct 24, 2:28pm -
  • Fall 2024 Book Recommendations
    Fall is here! It's my favorite season and time for reading. There's always great titles being released for the spooky season that are perfect for Halloween, as well as with other books, accessories, and more! Putting together this list of Fall re…
    - 25 Sep 24, 10:41am -
  • Book Review: Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Player’s Handbook
    Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook 2024HardcoverD&D AccessoryWizards Of The CoastRelease Date: September 17, 2024Good day, fellow tabletop gaming enthusiasts! I am stunned by the fact that it has been 10 years since the original Du…
    - 17 Sep 24, 7:45am -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Dungeons & Dragons
    Another year, another chance to gift your favorite beloved tabletop gamer more Dungeons & Dragons goodies for the holiday season. Because, as usual, Wizards of the Coast and other publishers working alongside of them, has delivered. I am so pleas…
    - 24 Nov 23, 4:06pm -

Neatorama

  • newFefe the Cockatoo and Her Forever Home
    Fefe is a strange-looking Goffin's cockatoo. But she's not a fledgling bird just getting her feathers- she's twenty years old! Nor is she molting. Her lack of feathers is from stress and boredom, which causes birds to pluck out their own feathers. At…
    - 7 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 9:15pm -
  • newThe Legend Behind the Codex Gigas, or the Devil's Bible
    Embed from Getty ImagesThe Codex Gigas is the biggest medieval manuscript in the world. This Bible is 36 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds. And it's not just a Bible- it also contains medical text, some apocryphal works, a confession, and some spells…
    - 11 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 5:04pm -
  • newThe Hidden, Yet Dramatic, Lives of Nails
    Even the most mundane objects, like plain old nails, can be imbued with personality in the hands of a patient and talented animator. There's no need for dialogue in this film, because the movement and the music tell a story. Or several stories.  Na…
    - 21 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 7:21am -
  • The Space-Out Competition Determines Who is Best at Doing Nothing
    Humans are so competitive they will design a contest around anything -or nothing. In 2014, Korean artist Woopsyang launched the Space-Out competition. The contestants do nothing at all. You can be disqualified for talking, looking at your phone, or f…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 25, 8:18pm -
  • Silly Machines by Jakob Grosse-Ophoff
    Jakob Grosse-Ophoff is an artist in Rostock, Germany who uses a variety of media, including paint, but has become famous on the internet for his kinetic sculptures. These mixed media pieces amuse audiences while simultaneously commenting about human…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:12am -
  • What Helen Keller Thought of the New York Symphony Orchestra
    Music is much more than just sound. The proof of that is in the time Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, experienced Beethoven's Ninth Symphony performed by the New York Symphony Orchestra and broadcast on radio. It was in February of 1924. Sh…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 8:46am -
  • Arena for Dancing Dinosaurs Discovered in Colorado
    Many species of birds perform elaborate mating dances to impress females. Some species have dedicated places where they gather to perform such dances, so that many females watch as the males compete for their attention. These "arenas" are called leks…
    - 2 days ago 17 Jul 25, 7:02pm -
  • An Honest Trailer for <i>The Naked Gun</i> (2025)
    What? An Honest Trailer for The Naked Gun? How did I miss the movie at my local theater? I'm not losing it; this movie doesn't open until August first. It appears that Screen Junkies has really arrived, because the producers of The Naked Gun approac…
    - 3 days ago 17 Jul 25, 12:40pm -
  • For Sale: Post-Apocalyptic Bunker
    The premise of Zillow Gone Wild is that there will always be eccentrically-designed homes for sale. That's why it keeps browsing for gems like this 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom home in central Tennessee.No, it's not a leftover from the Cold War or the Y2K s…
    - 3 days ago 17 Jul 25, 7:21am -
  • Not a McMansion, Just a Modernist Mess
    Kate Wagner at McMansion Hell has found a house that she couldn't help but deconstruct. It isn't a McMansion in the style she normally focuses on (although the interior certainly is), but once it was brought to her attention, the architectural choice…
    - 3 days ago 17 Jul 25, 6:25am -
  • The QWERTY Keyboard is Anything But Efficient
    More people use the QWERTY keyboard today than ever before, whether you learned to type with ten fingers on a typewriter, two thumbs on an iPhone, or even if you type in anagrams on a bluetooth keyboard like I do. It's what we are all used to. But it…
    - 3 days ago 16 Jul 25, 7:39pm -
  • How Carpathian Copper Miners Invented the Wheel
    To be honest, we still don't know exactly when and where the wheel was invented. But the oldest archaeological evidence of a wheel used for transportation was uncovered in Budakalász, Hungary, at the edge of the Carpathian Basin. A bunch of miniatur…
    - 3 days ago 16 Jul 25, 7:17pm -
  • Chaos in a Factory: the <i>Drunken Master II</i> Final Fight
    Drunken Master II was a 1994 Hong Kong film that was released in the US in 2000 under the name The Legend of Drunken Master (and that's when you say, "Oh yeah, I've seen that!"). The action/comedy starring Jackie Chan was critically acclaimed and ma…
    - 4 days ago 16 Jul 25, 3:08pm -
  • Darth Vader's Lightsaber Could Be Yours -If You Are a Millionaire
    Propstore is gearing up for their Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction coming in September. The item that's been headlining the sale so far is the whip, belt, and whip holster that Indiana Jones wore in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Cru…
    - 4 days ago 15 Jul 25, 8:39pm -
  • When a Dentist Tried to Bomb Tokyo with Bats
    In early 1942, the United States has just entered into World War II by way of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt was ready to entertain any ideas for winning the war, no matter how crazy, from dazzle camouflage to building a nuclear w…
    - 5 days ago 15 Jul 25, 2:22pm -

GeekDad

Longform

  • Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
    John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American Hi…
    - 26 Jun 24, 10:19am -
  • Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message.“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding thi…
    - 19 Jun 24, 6:53am -
  • Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang
    Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye.“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is m…
    - 12 Jun 24, 12:37pm -
  • Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox
    Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to…
    - 5 Jun 24, 7:10am -
  • Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson
    Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually un…
    - 29 May 24, 7:18am -
  • Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong
    Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so int…
    - 22 May 24, 8:45am -
  • Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney
    Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.“I was always very interested in how you stra…
    - 15 May 24, 7:54am -
  • Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep
    Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-pro…
    - 8 May 24, 6:29am -
  • Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt
    PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversatio…
    - 1 May 24, 7:57am -
  • Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples
    Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have t…
    - 24 Apr 24, 7:25am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
    Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Hait…
    - 19 Apr 24, 7:00am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
    Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a grad…
    - 18 Apr 24, 7:01am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
    Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee c…
    - 17 Apr 24, 8:43am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
    Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates.“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s…
    - 16 Apr 24, 7:11am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
    Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best ta…
    - 15 Apr 24, 9:20am -
  • Longform Podcast #575: Megan Kimble
    Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.“I have neve…
    - 3 Apr 24, 9:46am -
  • Longform Podcast #574: Zach Harris
    Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that…
    - 27 Mar 24, 10:12am -
  • Longform Podcast #573: Rozina Ali
    Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”“I think it’s very, very important to spea…
    - 20 Mar 24, 12:01pm -
  • Longform Podcast #572: Derek Thompson
    Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English.“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. A…
    - 13 Mar 24, 8:31am -
  • Longform Podcast #571: Tessa Hulls
    Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts.“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I wa…
    - 6 Mar 24, 6:44am -

The Hollywood Reporter - Heat Vision

Safe Cycle Lengths for Anabolic Steroids: Avoiding Risks
Safe Cycle Lengths for Anabolic Steroids: Avoiding Risks
- 26 Jul 24, 12:28am -
Steroid Cycle Lengths: How Long Should You Use Steroids?
Steroid Cycle Lengths: How Long Should You Use Steroids?
- 25 Jul 24, 11:13pm -
Recommended Dosages for Popular Anabolic Steroids
Recommended Dosages for Popular Anabolic Steroids
- 25 Jul 24, 9:58pm -
Anabolic Steroids Dosage: A Complete Guide
Anabolic Steroids Dosage: A Complete Guide
- 25 Jul 24, 9:06pm -
How Anabolic Steroids Affect Your Mood and Behavior
How Anabolic Steroids Affect Your Mood and Behavior
- 25 Jul 24, 7:34pm -
The Psychological Effects of Anabolic Steroids
The Psychological Effects of Anabolic Steroids
- 25 Jul 24, 6:52pm -

BoingBoing

  • newLearn 56 languages for less than one month of Duolingo Plus
    TL;DR: Get a lifetime access to 56 languages with the Qlango Language Learning app for just $34.97 (reg. $119.99). Deal ends July 20 at 11:45 p.m. PT.Language learning apps want your money and your commitment. But what if one app could just take a…
    - 18 hours ago 19 Jul 25, 10:00am -
  • Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over alleged Epstein birthday card
    President Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its parent company News Corp, alleging they falsely claimed he sent a lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.The lawsuit, filed in Florida federal court, cente…
    - 1 day ago 18 Jul 25, 7:06pm -
  • The AI space race may have a winner
    TL;DR: 1min.AI combines all your favorite AI models like GPT and Gemini in one platform, and it's only $80 for life.The AI space race we've got going on has left us all with an AI junk drawer full of subscriptions that are leaving wallets wheezing…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 4:00pm -
  • FBI deployed 1,000 agents to search Epstein files for Trump mentions, whistleblower says
    A thousand FBI agents were tasked with a peculiar mission: comb through Jeffrey Epstein's files specifically looking for mentions of President Donald Trump, according to whistleblower claims revealed in a Senate oversight letter.Senate Judiciary Cha…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 3:12pm -
  • Trump pours salt in Elon's wounds
    While Elon starts up his branch of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, Trump is hanging out with his "arch enemy," Sam Altman. Apparently, Donald knows how to get under Elon's skin. As if screwing with the subsidies that fuel Pedo Guy's empire…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 2:04pm -
  • JD Vance explodes over Trump-Epstein revelation (looks like someone needs his couch!)
    JD Vance blasted journalists for not asking about the Epstein files, saying they should be "ashamed" of themselves. But when journalists did exactly what he asked them to do and uncovered part of the Epstein files, the hollow vice president flew into…
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  • Bondi and Burgum tour a crumbling prison with dreams of shark-infested justice
    Decades of salt, the sea, and neglect have left Alcatraz kinda safe as a tourist destination. People get hurt in our National Parks all the time. Billions of dollars are needed to convert the physical plant into something useable as a prison, unless…
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  • "Enigmas never age" — Was Trump's alleged note to Epstein hiding an anagram for "gamines?"
    Jeffrey Epstein's past is filled with dark secrets, but his early career as a math teacher at the Dalton School is sometimes overshadowed by his legacy as a sexual predator convicted of sex crimes involving underage girls. As a mathematics instructor…
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  • Tick tock goes the clock on Alina Habba's new job
    Having failed thus far to receive confirmation of Donald Trump's appointment to the job of US Attorney in the New Jersey District from the Senate, massive loser Alina Habba is hoping a panel of justices will elect to keep her around. — Read the re…
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  • Remembering the Cisco AGS
    This video by David Bombel is a walk down memory lane for anyone who worked with TCP/IP networks in the past. Bombel works with two routers that were foundational during the DotCom Boom. The first border router at the internet datacenter startu…
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  • A guide to protecting your privacy at U.S. borders
    ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler doesn't take chances when he goes through a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint: "I try to be very careful about what I bring," the deputy director with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Pro…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 12:17pm -
  • Trump's impossible Unabomber story about deceased MIT uncle debunked
    Trump went to Pennsylvania earlier this week and told a crowd that his late uncle John, a legendary MIT professor, once said to him that the Unabomber "was seriously good at correcting people." The only problem: John Trump died in 1985, Kaczynski was…
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  • A look inside Walt's Disneyland apartment (video)
    Just as you walk into the park, situated above the firehouse and City Hall restrooms, is a small apartment that Walt Disney built for himself and his family.When I took the tour of Walt's in-park apartment a year or so ago, I got to sit on the same…
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  • Trump Always Chickens Out: Donald tries to appease angry base
    After a couple of days of posturing that he no longer needs his rabid conspiracy theorist supporters, convicted felon and OG Birther Donald Trump is telling his Attorney General Pam Bondi to offer up something that sounds important but isn't. Looks l…
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  • Inventor in China creates off-road, self-driving bed that could save lives
    This  39-year-old man in southwestern China's Yunnan province built a motorized bed to realize his childhood dream of going to school while staying cozy in his bed. This bed does a lot more than just roll around while you lay in it, though. — Read…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:56am -
  • North Korea "proudly" opens mega resort — then immediately bans tourists after bad review
    On July 1, North Korea's Kim Jong Un announced "the proud first step" towards expanding tourism when he opened a gargantuan beachside resort fit for 20,000 international visitors. But just two weeks later, the massive complex — which the dictator…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:55am -
  • Jury dings Mike Lindell $2.3m for defaming voting machine worker
    Mike Lindell, the MyPillow entrepreneur who burned his empire down for Trump, repeatedly lied about voting machine workers and eventually lost a defamation lawsuit as a result. Today jurors handed him the bill: he must pay his victim, Eric Coomer, $2…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:38am -
  • Nails come to life in this expressive stop motion short
    I clicked "play" on a dusty 1972 Estonian short called Nail because the thumbnail looked intriguing: a nail bent like an inch worm. One minute later I'd restarted it, amazed by the stop-motion wizardry.From the YouTube description:A nail is genera…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:38am -
  • This talented dancing dog nails the iconic "Maniac" scene from Flashdance!
    This video of a very talented doggo doing his best four-legged version of the famous "Maniac" dance from the 1983 movie Flashdance is giving me joy (and much needed laughs!) today. Behold Jax, a precious Labrador Retriever who's got a bad case of…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:19am -
  • This parrot sounds exactly like a crying baby
    This parrot sounds just like a baby throwing a temper tantrum. Nico the parrot has gone viral for being able to perfectly mimic a crying baby. He even says "I'm a good boy" over and over through his crocodile tears, as if he's trying to convince his…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:15am -
  • JD Vance memes are still going strong and are better than ever
    One of my coping strategies for surviving the current administration is exchanging JD Vance memes with my friends. Surely you know the images and videos I'm talking about — one iteration of the meme might have even recently played a part in last mo…
    - 2 days ago 18 Jul 25, 10:09am -
  • Office drama? Not when your software lasts forever
    TL;DR: Ditch the monthly bills — this Office and Windows 11 Pro bundle gives you the tools you need to work, create, and procrastinate like a pro, all for one low price of $44.97 through July 20.Microsoft Office Pro 2021Microsoft Office Pro 2…
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  • National Geographic photographer captures first underwater image of Great White shark in Maine

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  • Japan's Lawson stores turn parking spots into mini campgrounds for $16 a night
    Taking advantage of rising hotel prices and the boom in shachuhaku (sleeping in your car), the Japanese convenience store chain Lawson has rolled out a new pilot program that lets travelers spend the night in select store parking lots, reports Tokyo…
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  • These Powerbeats Pro are wireless, fearless—and $80 off
    TL;DR: Get a pair of refurbished Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds for $169.99 (reg. $249.99).If your current earbuds have the personality of a soggy tortilla chip, allow us to introduce something with actual drive: the Powerbeats…
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  • Scientists identify gut bacterial trigger for atherosclerosis
    A molecule produced by gut bacteria can trigger heart disease, according to research published in Nature. Scientists at Madrid's National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) identified a specific molecule called imidazole propionate that gut b…
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  • Check out this big, beautiful billboard depicting Trump as "Swamp King"
    A big, beautiful billboard recently went up in Phoenix, Arizona, on Grand Avenue between 10th and 11th Avenues. Feast your eyes on artist Karen Fiorito's "Swamp King," which depicts a hideous swamp creature surrounded by the utter chaos and havoc i…
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  • 1902 photo shows creeper plant that devoured an entire tree
    A 1902 photograph from The Strand Magazine reveals the fate of a poor tree that was straight-up strangled by its supposed BFF — a jungle creeper with apparently zero concept of boundaries.This botanical murderer coiled itself around its host tree…
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  • Man on the street interviews suggest Elon's new political party won't be a success (video)
    The Daily Show asked random folks on the streets of New York what they think about Elon's new America Party.Between the Cybertruck, anti-Semitism, and being a parent, you'd think Elon Musk would realize he's terrible at predicting what people w…
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  • Trump's Los Angeles military deployment bored, bitter and defecating in the humvees
    Both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times report morale problems for Trump's unneeded occupying force. "They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the wildfires," one soldier said. "Nobody's handing out Disneyland tickets now.…
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  • Nerd Rant: The “What if” Arguments
    Any time Hollywood remakes something, and changes a characters skin color to anything not white, white people have complete breakdowns over it. I’ve seen so much outrage recently between The Rings of Power, and now The Little Mermaid, it’s just d…
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  • Watching: DC Animated Shows
    I’ve been on a kick lately, a nostalgia superhero kick. I grew up watching superhero cartoons, and never really stopped. It really hit me though that most of the animated shows I watched were DC. Of course I loved some Marvel stuff to, like X-Men,…
    - 10 Aug 22, 5:35am -
  • That Time At The Library
    Once upon a time, 13 year old me, and my two best friends (one bold & one goofy) were at a public library. We were doing some research for a school project we had to work on, and pretty much minding our own business. Aside from whispering, when we ne…
    - 26 Jun 22, 1:40pm -
  • My Favorite Underrated Movies
    We all have those movies we love, but it feels like no one else likes them. These are a few of mine. One of the great things about the internet is finding out that I was not alone in liking these movies. Josie and the Pussycats (2001) Such cheesy goo…
    - 25 Apr 22, 7:03pm -
  • The Guild
    On July 27th 2007, back when I obsessively payed World of Warcraft, Felicia Day dropped The Guild on YouTube. I’m having trouble processing that this year will mark 15 years since then. It just doesn’t seem that long ago to me, yet, somehow, it d…
    - 28 Feb 22, 12:38pm -
  • “Forgotten” Early 2000s Sci-Fi Shows
    If it wasn’t for the fact that people uploaded things on YouTube, I would have thought I was the only one who remembered some of these shows. I consider them “forgotten” simply because of the fact I never hear any one talk about them, or know w…
    - 19 Jan 22, 12:13pm -
  • The Villains Lair
    I’m not sure how this went unnoticed by me for so long, but recently YouTube decided to make a suggestion to me, and I don’t know why they waited so long. But, now I have discovered The Villain’s Lair. Here are the first two episodes from the p…
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  • Encanto: Mirabel’s Gift
    When we get to the end of Encanto some people felt it wasn’t clear if Mirabel had a gift, or what it was. But, I think I might be on to something with my theory. Let’s start at the beginning, not of the movie, but where the gifts came from. Abuel…
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  • If My Life Were A Disney Soundtrack
    Sometimes I like to put together playlists on Spotifty. Recently I wondered, if my life had a soundtrack, what would it be? Then I went completely blank.  After thinking on it, I figured the best place for me to start would be with songs from Disne…
    - 2 Jan 22, 10:34am -
  • Nerd Nostalgia: BK Commercials
    I’m not sure how I ended up down this rabbit hole, but here we are. This post is an unintentional ad for Burger King, because they saw talent before they were famous. Little “Buffy” at Burger King Before she worked at Double Meat Palace, Buffy…
    - 27 Dec 21, 12:25pm -

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