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The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters

Today I Found Out about Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when it had a major accident. Violet Jessop enjoyed incredible “luck” from a young age. Born…

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What’s Eating Florida? These Six Voracious Species

Just in case Florida didn’t have enough going against it already (looking at you Florida Man), the state that everybody loves to hate is currently being invaded. No, not by Cuba—by a variety of non-native plants and animals that are wreaking environmental havoc and causing billions of dollars in damage. These are six of the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How Living Infrastructure Will Save Our Cities from Nature’s Wrath

Super-typhoon Haiyan, the single most powerful storm ever recorded, is an unsettling harbinger of troubles to come. Weather systems across the globe have gained terrifying intensity and destructive force over the past few years thanks to our rapidly warming planet. New defenses are needed to protect our metropolitan centers, most of which are located within…

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How to Protect Your Phone From the Police

Police forces around the country have developed the nasty habit of confiscating the phones of citizens who choose to film them, unilaterally deleting images and video of their actions. Whether that’s a Fourth Amendment violation is still being decided by the courts; until that happens, here’s how to protect your phone from the prying eyes…

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Trans Fats: What They Are, and Why the FDA Is Finally Banning Them

Today, just over 100 years after the advent of trans fats, the FDA has announced that it’s taking the first steps toward banning them outright, removing them from the “Generally Recognized As Safe” list and out of the American food supply. It’s about time. Trans fats seemed like such a good idea at the time.…

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How Lethal Injection Works

Virtually all of the 32 American states that allow the death penalty rely on a deadly chemical cocktail to slowly and quietly kill the condemned. But America has found itself running dangerously low on sodium pentothal, the injection’s primary ingredient, after the only US supplier stopped making it. So how are we supposed to kill…

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How the Silver Screen Turned Into a Technicolor Dream

Today’s moviegoers are a jaded bunch—it seems to require 3D visuals and advanced audio systems just to get a rise out of them. But it wasn’t always this tough in Tinseltown; there was once a time when something as basic as color film was sufficient to blow an audience’s collective mind. The Early Days of…

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Russia’s Newest Ballistic Missile Sub Something Something Red October

While Russia’s submarine fleet remains a formidable force in the 21st Century, the country still relies on craft built before the Iron Curtain lifted. Today, a lot of the subs are getting long in the tooth. However, the new SSBN Yury Dolgoruky will provide Mother Russia with a fresh set of nuclear fangs. The SSBN…

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Transect China in Half the Time Aboard the World’s Longest High-Speed Rail Line

High speed rail may be a quixotic public works project here in California but for China, it’s a cornerstone of the country’s transportation infrastructure. Yesterday, Chinese officials expanded that infrastructure by inaugurating the longest such rail line on Earth and announced plans for seven more. While not nearly as fast as the Tokyo-Nagoya mag-lev line…

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The Stoner Channel: Homer’s D’ohrigins, Cypress Squid, and The Character of Physical Law

This Is What Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane Looks Like When Played Through a Squid Finally, science with practical real-world applications! They just haven’t figured out what those are just yet. Greg Gage of Backyard Brains explains how his team achieved these results: During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (loligo…

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The Stoner Channel: Rio Says No to Crack, Growers Say Yes to CO2, and a Boy Searches for His Bunyan

Eclectic Method – Bill Murray Celebrate Bill Murray’s heroic decision turn down the inevitable clusterfuck that will be Ghostbusters 3 with this supercut of his most beloved performances.[Buzzfeed] Rio Drug Dealers Say No to Crack Crack cocaine is more trouble than its worth—for the user, for the larger society, and in Brazil at least, for…

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The Stoner Channel: Banned Doggs, Money Bunnies, and Baby Bongs

Dark Side of the Rainbow So, does this count as the first mash-up in media history? Baby Bong This is the best idea in the history of driving. Either that or the worst. [Flickr via WPD] Snoop Dogg “Can Live With” Two Year Norway Ban Snoop Dogg was visiting Oslo last month ahead of a…

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Anonymous-Leaked Emails Reveal Syrian Presidential Aides’ Disdain for Americans

An Anonymous-affliliated hacker group has stolen and leaked hundreds of damaging emails from Syria’s Ministry of Presidential Affairs including a damning thread regarding the manipulation of American opinion of President Assad’s dissent-crushing tactics. The talking-points thread, a translation of which can be read here, was sent from Sheherazad Jaafari, a Syrian press attache, to Presidential…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

According to the FDA, Your Stem Cells Are Now Drugs

In recent court filings, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that stem cells—you know, the ones our bodies produce naturally—are in fact drugs and subject to its regulatory oversight. So does that make me a controlled substance? The bizarre controversy revolves around the FDA’s attempt to regulate the Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Colorado that performs…

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The Peavey AT-200 Is the T-Pain of Electric Guitars

Why should Akon have all the fun? This new guitar has a built-in Auto-Tune feature that can change the pitch and tuning of any note played—in real-time—at the press of a button. Sure, Gibson’s been making self-tuning guitars for a while now, but the AT-200 works differently. It’s outfitted with an Auto-Tune for Guitar DSP…

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US Government Nixes Three of Rambus’ Most Prized Patents

Three patents pertaining to memory chip design that were used to successfully sue HP and Nvidia—dubbed the Barth Patents—are among Rambus’ most valuable IP. Excuse me, they were among Rambus’ most valuable until the US patent office invalidated them. According to court documents, the US Patent and Trademark Office invalidated the last of the Barth…

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Google Puts the Hammer Down on Three More Services

Good news everyone! Google announced today that three of its web services will be getting the axe by mid-year. Picnik, a photo-editing company that Google acquired in 2010 with hopes of integrating into Picasa will be shuttered by April 19th, “so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products,” said Dave Girouard,…

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Supreme Court Gives the Go Ahead for Re-Copyrighting Public Domain Works

You’ve got to be kidding me. The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Congress can remove works from the public domain and re-copyright them in order to bring the the pieces into compliance with international copyright schemes. Yeah, because that doesn’t run completely against the spirit of copyright law or anything. For one reason or…

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SOPA Legislation Gets Slightly Less Terrible

Score one for the Internet. One of SOPA’s most controversial provisions—DNS blocking—will be removed, for now at least, according to one of the act’s staunchest supporters, Representative Lamar Smith. The domain name blocking provision, as set forth in SOPA, would effectively censor foreign websites found hosting any amount of pirated content by requiring American ISP’s…

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Nokia Just Sold Hundreds of Its “Essential” Wireless Patents

Sisvel International, the notorious IP management firm that made headlines in 2010 by teaming with Apple and Siemens to call in a police raid at the CeBIT trade show, is rearming itself. The company announced yesterday that it has acquired hundreds of Nokia-owned wireless patents. Who’s ready for some litigation? According to Sisvel, it has…

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The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters

What’s Eating Florida? These Six Voracious Species

How Living Infrastructure Will Save Our Cities from Nature’s Wrath

How to Protect Your Phone From the Police

Trans Fats: What They Are, and Why the FDA Is Finally Banning Them

How Lethal Injection Works

How the Silver Screen Turned Into a Technicolor Dream

Russia’s Newest Ballistic Missile Sub Something Something Red October

Transect China in Half the Time Aboard the World’s Longest High-Speed Rail Line

The Stoner Channel: Homer’s D’ohrigins, Cypress Squid, and The Character of Physical Law

The Stoner Channel: Rio Says No to Crack, Growers Say Yes to CO2, and a Boy Searches for His Bunyan

The Stoner Channel: Banned Doggs, Money Bunnies, and Baby Bongs

Anonymous-Leaked Emails Reveal Syrian Presidential Aides’ Disdain for Americans

According to the FDA, Your Stem Cells Are Now Drugs

The Peavey AT-200 Is the T-Pain of Electric Guitars

US Government Nixes Three of Rambus’ Most Prized Patents

Google Puts the Hammer Down on Three More Services

Supreme Court Gives the Go Ahead for Re-Copyrighting Public Domain Works

SOPA Legislation Gets Slightly Less Terrible

Nokia Just Sold Hundreds of Its “Essential” Wireless Patents

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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