Be a sketch artist. A little deduction game where “you are a sketch artist. Use clues from witnesses to draw the suspect and catch them!” There are “Case 1 of 68” so you can burn a lot of time here. […]
Humpbacks keep ruining orca hunts. They’ll sometimes physically shield the prey: “The humpback arches its chest out of the water to keep the seal high and dry, above the reach of the frustrated killer whales circling below.” Researchers compiled “115 […]
A 3D archive of restrooms. A growing repository of publicly accessible bathrooms. “There is perhaps no space in society that better captures the creativity and impertinence of humans when they know that nobody else is watching.” ~ learn more
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived. “You’ll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data.” A simple little site that forces you to feel how weird […]
Base launches a 40 kWh home battery. “At ~40 kWh it is 3x the size of most home batteries, providing up to 36 hours of backup for the average home.” Base is also adding a generator port so you can […]
The decline of deviance. “People are less weird than they used to be.” Adam Mastroianni walks through a pile of trendlines that all point the same way: fewer teens drinking or fighting, less crime, fewer cults, and even Americans moving […]
Spiral-cut your hot dogs. A food blogger tried every way they could find online to prepare a hot dog. “The best way to grill hot dogs is to spiralize them.” The corkscrew cut opens up on the grill, giving you […]
Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses. “Internal attention (INT, green) yielded smaller and faster-resolving inflammatory responses than distraction (DIS, pink).” The researchers triggered a standard histamine skin reaction, then had people either focus on the bodily sensations or get distracted […]
Status hand soap era. “That shit was $90!” A $90 Loewe Tomato Leaves hand soap turns out to be a pretty efficient way to broadcast taste from the bathroom sink, even if you end up refilling the bottle later. ~ […]
Why people don’t like Al content. “They generate the appearance of intention, but in reality, there isn’t any.” Tomas Pueyo’s term for the vibe is “AI grime”: lots of texture and detail that promises depth, then collapses when you look […]