Planning a grocery shopping list seems like a thing technology could solve. But the complex the needs of meal ingredients, family budgets, how grocery stores are set up differently everywhere… It’s a recipe for insanity.
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The perfect grocery store shopping list app does not exist
Planning a grocery shopping list seems like a thing technology could solve. But the complex the needs of meal ingredients, family budgets, how grocery stores are set up differently everywhere… It’s a recipe for insanity.
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Setlist.FM changing concerts
Setlist.FM has been around quite a while. For music in concert nerds, it’s an awesome way to follow an artist as they tour. And it’s changing how artist put together their setlists. For musicians who regularly change their set list, it allows them to check what they last played the last time they were in…
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Axolotls are nifty
Axoltls are weird, alien and fascinating creatures that can regrow limbs. Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat—by activating stem cells throughout the body, not just at the injury site. In a paper…
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Father Pete leads the masses at Notre Dame
Thirty seconds into the video, the camera shows Father Pete — to call him anything else is to barely know him — striding into the Basilica. He’s as identifiable by his buzz cut and black-rimmed glasses as he is by his perpetual smile. Sunlight follows him through the doors. That’s when the student section loses…
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Teens start banned book club
After books were banned, what better way for teenagers to rebel than to start a banned book club? “It was really difficult for our first year,” Gooblar-Perovic added. “We couldn’t be like an official club with our school, because it would be, legally, iffy.” The group persisted. After the part of the law that affects…
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The rise of chatfishing
ChatGPT and its contemporaries are becoming dating tools, or at worse, crutches to mask social conversational deficiencies, aka chatfishing. Soon, Rachel and her match were speaking daily, their conversations running the gamut from the ridiculous (favourite memes, ketchup v mayonnaise) to the sublime (expectations in love, childhood traumas). Often they’d have late-night exchanges that left…
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Mexico City’s zombie walk
Every year, Mexico City hosts a zombie walk. Quite festive with a lot of different interpretations.
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Sam Adams has a new beer that’s so strong it’s illegal in 15 states
Sam Adams has a new beer that’s so strong it’s illegal in 15 states. Utopias — the white whale of the brewer’s lineup — is back for 2025 and it’s stronger than ever. Released every other year, the 2025 Utopias clocks in with a jaw-dropping 30% ABV, higher than most liqueurs and as much as…
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Settlers of Catan movie
Netflix purchased screen rights to Settlers of Catan. Hmmmm. Netflix has won the rights to the Asmodee board game and plans an array of projects — scripted and unscripted, live-action and animated. The streamer describes the TV and film projects as set in “a place where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances…