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  • Ukraine hunting drones with a shotgun and an airplane

    It’s such a simple idea: fly a two seater single engine plane, give the passenger a shotgun, and go drone hunting. Click through for a crazy picture of one setup.

  • Publishing newspapers at 15

    A group of teenagers are publishing their own weekly newspaper in Montauk, NY. Billy Stern, the paper’s 15-year-old top editor, kept tabs on their progress in a planning document on his laptop. According to his color-coding system, reporters had already filed articles about nearby summer camps and the construction of a new hospital on the…

  • Play Doom anywhere

    First person shooter Doom has earned a meme-like reputation for practically being able to be played anywhere. This stems from decisions made during its creation, enabling portability.

  • Exporting the Irish Pub

    There’s an entire business devoted to exporting the Irish pub vibe. But founder Mel McNally is not in the business of just shipping pub-in-a-box packages around the world. Each one is custom-designed to fit a specific space in collaboration with the local owner, who has creative control over the many, many, many details involved. The…

  • I Don’t Have Spotify

    I Don’t Have Spotify is a clever, one trick web app that takes Spotify links and finds music on other services. It works well for songs and albums.

  • How the Trump Administration is breaking the government

    A collective of writers have put together a website documenting how the Trump Administration is breaking the government. It’s detailed, concise, and well sourced.

  • Infrared enabled contact lenses

    Every day we get a little closer to the future, and recently, Chinese scientists have created contact lenses that can see infrared light. The team screened various biocompatible polymeric materials (used to make commercial contact lenses) to find just the right refractive index and optical and mechanical properties, and integrated them with the aforementioned nanoparticles…

  • Growing Sequoias in Detroit

    An effort started in 2020, seeks to grow an urban forest of sequoias in Detroit. Giant sequoias are not native to Michigan. And, yet, they’re somehow thriving in the state, which has a much cooler and wetter climate than their native California. The biggest giant sequoia east of the Rockies is a 77-year-old specimen, called…

  • Whac-a-mole movie

    No, it’s not The Onion. A Whac-a-mole movie is in development.

  • DoorDash driver sparks security alert at major airport after entering ‘unauthorized’ area

    DoorDash driver sparks security alert at major airport after entering ‘unauthorized’ area. Despite the strict rules at the Chicago airport pickup and drop-off areas, the delivery person entered the secured areas before a worker realized he wasn’t supposed to be there. According to the outlet, a source noted that the driver drove miles along the…