Off the coast of Chile, a kayaker was swallowed (briefly) by a whale,
“My guess is that the whale was just as surprised as the kayaker,” Dr. Jooke Robbins, director of the Humpback Whale Studies Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Massachusetts, wrote in an email.
Humpback whales feed by quickly lunging through a school of fish with their mouths wide open, then straining the water out through their baleen, the fringed plates they have inside their mouths instead of teeth.
Off the coast of Chile, a kayaker was swallowed (briefly) by a whale, “My guess is that the whale was just as surprised as the kayaker,” Dr. Jooke Robbins, director of the Humpback Whale Studies Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Massachusetts, wrote in an email. Humpback whales feed by quickly lunging through…
How Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show came together. For Lamar’s video game-themed show that meant more than 50 carts of staging and equipment—each weighing between 1,500 and 3,500 pounds—to be rolled out in the center of the stadium. To protect the field, the carts rode on specially designed wheels (“turf tires” is their nontechnical name), so…
WikiTok infinitely scrolls Wikipedia, randomly loading articles. From the developer, Isaac Gemel, Ars Technia describes WikiTok as … a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app. Although to be fair, WikiTok is addictive in its own…
Two Redditors collaborated and put together a Project 2025 Tracker dashboard. Objectives are link to sources, marked for status, subject, and affected agency. As of 2/12/2025, fascism in America is over a quarter of the way done.
A project that I worked on in 2023 — composing a song each weekend. This amounted to 52 tracks that dabbled across a variety of genres: lo-fi, dance, techno, rock, post rock, experimental, and a mixed mash of notes that sounded interesting. Only one of them contains vocals (Shakespeare fans should recognize it). I uploaded…
It’s been of the 20 years since I’ve watched Kill Bill vol 1 and 2, Quentin Tarantino’s homage to 70s era kung fu action movies and Japanese cinema. That’s a long enough time that upon rewatch, it was like experiencing them for the first time again – only this time in 4K with surround sound,…
Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep. Scientists think sleep is the brain’s rinse cycle, when fluid percolating through the organ flushes out chemical waste that accumulated while we were awake. But what propels this circulation has been uncertain. A study of mice, reported today in Cell, suggests regular contractions of blood vessels…
Three articles regarding the ongoing Elon Musk coup. The newsy bits from the Verge, Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government, particularly the GSA: The GSA, an agency most of us have never had to think about, is in charge of buildings, sure. But also it runs an awful lot of the technical…
If you watched Superbowl 59 yesterday, you most likely saw Tom Brady’s wrist shine brighter than the sun.Turns out it’s a $740,000 piece with 338 yellow sapphires, 338 diamonds, and an 18k yellow gold case.
The evil housekeeper problem refers to a concept in computer security where once somebody is in the room where your computer is, security of that device can no longer be guaranteed. And right now, we are seeing this play out in real time with Elon Musk and DOGE. You might think that there would be…
