Category: Weird
A Reading List for Kids on Their Very Long Summer Break
So your normal, too-short summer vacation has suddenly become a hyper-extended, undifferentiated snake-dragon thing. You have a lot of time to read. (And play Minecraft…
How To Switch iPhones & Transfer Data Without Losing a Thing
Losing all the stuff on your phone used to be no big deal a decade ago. These days, it’s practically a Netflix horror movie plot….
How Does a Virus Spread in Cities? It’s a Problem of Scale
The people who design and build cities have a saying, or they used to: The mistakes of the planners are inherited by the health department….
Today’s Cartoon: Alien Algorithm
Wednesday, May 20, 2020. By Lars Kenseth, with cartooncollections.com. The Department of Defense isn’t admitting that aliens exist, but apparently they don’t mind if you…
Covid-19’s Toll on Prison Labor Doesn’t Just Hurt Inmates
While millions of Americans shelter in their homes, America’s prisoners are at work. In at least 20 states, from Florida to Michigan to Texas to…
Right to Repair Groups Fire Shots at Medical Device Manufacturers
“It all crystallized for me when we were seeing ventilators in Italy fail, and a [startup group] was 3D-printing valves for them,” Wiens says. “And…
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have Dropped 17 Percent During the Pandemic
If you can rely on humanity to do anything consistently, it’s to spew more and more CO2 into the atmosphere. Even after the world’s nations…
Microsoft Build Looks Very Different in 2020
This morning, Microsoft kicks off the first ever virtual iteration of Build, its annual conference for the developers who make software for Microsoft’s platforms. As…
Netflix’s ‘Have a Good Trip’ Celebrates Psychedelics
Carrie Fisher had a psychedelic-induced encounter with a talking acorn. Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann recalls the time he dropped too much acid and his…
‘Crucible’, Amazon’s First Big-Budget Game, Arrives Wednesday
Amazon enters the crowded games industry in full force Wednesday with its release of Crucible, the first big-budget PC game to come from Amazon Game…