The Morning News

Based on findings from a medieval map, researchers think a legendary pair of underwater Welsh islands may be real.

↩︎ Motherboard 5h

Another reason to avoid human extinction: It's unlikely another technologically capable species would take our place.

↩︎ WIRED 5h

An artist who duct-taped a banana to a wall in 2019 is being sued by another artist who created a very similar work 20 years ago.

↩︎ The Guardian 5h

By translating astronomical data into audible sound, NASA lets us hear the sound of a black hole.

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A study of sedentary behavior finds watching TV—compared to using a computer—is associated with an increased risk of dementia.

↩︎ Ars Technica 6h

From 2008 but still worth revisiting: Footage of David Lynch calmly reading Maxim in the morning while wearing gloves.

And yeah, he's still delivering a weather report most mornings.

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A reading of all 19,000-plus tweets by Elon Musk finds a person who often feels betrayed, but still won't give up on his mission.

↩︎ New York Magazine 1d

One treatment for gout involves stuffing a puppy with snails and sage and roasting him over a fire: the rendered fat was then used to make a salve.

Researchers are reviewing “8,000 unedited medical recipes” to study how medieval physicians helped people with their ailments.

↩︎ Cambridge University Library

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People are so anxious that they are willing to buy a secondhand AC that hasn't yet been fully refurbished. We double the price of every AC during heatwaves.

Who’s profiting off web-bulb misery in places like Pakistan? Small repair shops that fix and sell secondhand air conditioners.

↩︎ Dawn

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In the UK, heatwaves and drought have pushed trees into survival mode, giving the appearance that we're already in autumn.

↩︎ BBC News 1d

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet. That means "more vegetation is marching toward the pole."

↩︎ WIRED 1d

Footage of a firenado coming together in northwestern Los Angeles County. The fire was about 80 percent contained Thursday.

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We’ve never seen a Black man this powerful this bent on harming other Black folks. He’s alien to me because I love my people and I can see in his hardened heart he’s against us.

Mitchell S. Jackson tries to understand Clarence Thomas by visiting where he grew up and where he lives now.

↩︎ Esquire

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The trials of operating the country's first Black-owned outdoor retailer. “Why leave Texas to live an outdoor lifestyle?"

↩︎ Texas Monthly 1w

From Caustic Cover Critic: comics "reliably attributed to" Patricia Highsmith, who worked as a comic book writer in the 1940s.

↩︎ Google Drive 1w

What are the brand values of Fancy Feast? I would say that it is fancy. But it is also surprisingly hard to find at the Petco in Union Square, which is where I went after my own fancy feast, because the event’s parting gift bag, while immense, somehow did not actually include cat food.

Choire Sicha eats at the Fancy Feast restaurant: “I figured I might as well get a jump on the trend.”

↩︎ Grub Street

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Data is sparse, people with Locked-in syndrome often report being happy and fulfilled—the difference is often down to caregivers.

↩︎ Undark 1w

An August 1977 *Amazing Spider-Man* comic inspired a New Mexico judge to create the first prisoner ankle monitor.

↩︎ Gizmodo 1w

Machine learning in science is riddled with errors—which is especially bad considering AI's tendency to grab headlines.

↩︎ WIRED 1w

"It’s a rare retail store... to appear on a US driver’s license." How the Bass Pro Shops pyramid became a Memphis icon.

↩︎ Outside 1w