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With Kamala Harris' Vice President pick Tim Walz rapidly becoming everyone's favorite dad and Mr. Rogers substitute, Jason Cosper's Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle -- a rif on Mat Honan's 2008 Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle (yes, you are that old now) -- has collected a singularity's worth of wholesome male role model positivity.Hidden in the source, you can say hi to Cosper...

Three young boys, the most famous dinosaur in history, and a prehistoric discovery that left them speechless. Two young brothers and their cousin made the discovery of a lifetime whilst hiking in North Dakota — a T-rex fossil poking out of the ground.

Spiders of Paradise is an upcoming exhibit of large scale portraits of tiny colorful Peacock Spiders (Genus Maratus) by artist Maria Fernanda Cardosa. Here's a short video about the project.

"You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?" Before coming to the Olympics, Equatorial Guinea's Eric Moussambani had never seen a 50m pool. Aaron Smith tells us an incredible story that starts with 'Eric the Eel' answering a call for volunteers, and ends in a way you might not expect.

"With a Boob Out" is the new music video from Australian folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alana Wilkinson. [Despite the title and the use of the word "boob" this post is entirely SFW]Wilkinson's debut album Half-Time Oranges comes out soon and additional tracks are available for preview on Bandcamp. The internet is loaded with funny social media people making little songs and some of...

Israel Accused of Running "Torture Camps" as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner - Democracy Now covers the days-old story that's still not quite got any significant coverage in Western media: 'The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become "a network of torture camps," where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of...

NYT: Wirecutter takes on the perennial question "Frankly, some people are just monsters. And those monsters are our loved ones."I just found this hilarious. The author suggests finding different ways to store and replace the toilet paper, but in the end (har)... "Investigate why your current dispenser isn't functional for your family: You asked why your family can't manage this simple task. I don't...

YouTube: Democracy Manifest. Jack Karlson (may be an alias) has passed away, aged 82. BBC: A man responsible for one of the most viral clips in Australian history has died at the age of 82. The prison escapee and on-again off-again petty criminal ... shot to fame in 2009, after a clip of his dramatic 1991 arrest outside a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane was...

Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West. Lovely article introducing and situating North Korean science fiction as its own genre

The transformative power of a northern Canadian wrestling tour. Sonya Ballantyne and Stephan Peterson directed The Death Tour, about a Northern Manitoba indie wrestling circuit.

"The Giant by N. C. Wyeth (1882 – 1945) has hung in the Dining Room of Westtown School since 1923, a memorial from members of the Westtown Class of 1910 to their deceased classmate, William Clothier Engle (1891 – 1916). Commissioned by the class, the painting pays tribute to an artistic young man lost in the prime of his life." A short film was...

Why I Finally Quit Spotify The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to listen to. With the latest app updates, I'd had enough. [Kyle Chayka for the New Yorker, ungated]Bonus track: Enshittification by Jack Hewitt, from his newest album Melburn Bitter. Please recommend more tracks about the decay of the internet below.

Criticism is an act of autobiography. The work of making an argument, coming to a judgment, or simply choosing which books or objects to give time and attention to is inevitably, helplessly, an expression of values—and an expression of self. Our tastes tell on us as much as our syntax and tone; that mysterious compound called sensibility is formed by some strange alchemy of...

Only 50 of these tiny frogs are left in the wild, but a drop of thousands of eggs in Kosciuszko National Park may change that. More than 3400 southern corroboree frog eggs have been released into their natural habitat in the NSW Snowy Mountains in the hope of bringing the iconic species back from the brink of extinction.

"I'm working on a list of corporate jargon alternatives." Matt Watson proposes that we replace modern business phrases with "equally swanky alternatives from English of a bygone era." Examples: changing "I will check on that and circle back with you." to "I will investigate the matter and bring thee word again." and switching from "This is our new normal." to "Of such is our...

The once high flying staple of macho swaggering Dad Rock, Aerosmith has called it quits on touring. Last year during a September show on their "Peace Out Farewell Tour", Steven Tyler (75 at the time) damaged his vocal cords to the point of bleeding. He has been unable to recover to the point of performing.Founded in Boston in 1970, Aerosmith scored multiple platinum records...

Whatever your thoughts are about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz becoming the USA Vice-President candidate on the Kamala Harris ticket, you probably have several questions along these lines: What is hotdish, how is it different from a casserole (because it definitely is)and why do Minnesotans call it that?!

This week, Elon Musk has added to his already sizable legal problems with two cases on both sides of the courtroom. On the plaintiff side, he has sued the Global Alliance for Responsible Media over them encouraging advertisers to pull ads from Twitter over hate speech and bigotry on the site. On the defendant side, Michigan AG Dana Nessel has opened a criminal investigation...

Having recently broken a months-long silence on his YouTube channel with another collaboration with Chrystabell, David Lynch reveals in an interview with Sight and Sound that he can no longer direct films in person, due to emphysema contracted after years of cigarette smoking. "I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, and so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. I can't go...

These women want to be sterilised — they have to fight the law, their country, family and history. Women in Japan face a $4800 fine if they have a sterilisation procedure without their spouse's consent, but there is now a fight to have that changed.

Hugo and Nebula-winning sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer was sysop of the Compuserve WordStar forum. Now, he's taken the files of the last released version of seminal word processor WordStar 7.0D for DOS, released in 1992, its company long defunct, and released it, ready to run with two DOS emulators, manuals, and odds and ends from the old Compuserve forum libraries, on his website...

Judge Orders Part of African Art Collection Discovered in Houston Shed Sold to Settle Debt Mysterious smuggled art, evil landlord, embezzlement of civic funds,and bankruptcy.

In December, Night_owl alerted us to Rosemary Hayne, who was sentenced to a job in fast food for throwing a bowl inside a Chipotle in Cleveland. Grub Street has just posted a follow-up, The Empathy Punishment.(archive link)