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GOP lawmakers hated Big Beautiful Bill — until Trump bullied them with morning call (supercut)

3 July 2025 @ 11:39 pm

Image: King Trump; Boing Boing / MidjourneyJust because the Big Beautiful Bill passed does not mean it's big, nor beautiful. Just ask the Republican lawmakers who hated it, said they would not support it, and then, after a call from their boss, snapped into submission with a panic-stricken "aye!" —

Japan's 4.5% obesity rate vs America's 40%: What's their secret?

3 July 2025 @ 7:11 pm

What I've Learned - Joseph Everett / YouTubeAmerica's obesity rate has gone from 12% to over 40% since 1960. Japan's remains at just 4.5%. Why? The latest episode of Joseph Everett's "What I've Learned" YouTube series examines why the Japanese population, as a whole, has remained significantly thinner than the American population. —

745 km from civilization: Exploring North America's most isolated road

3 July 2025 @ 6:48 pm

By Axel Drainville - Flickr: Réservoir Caniapiscau vu de la route Transtaïga, CC BY 2.0, LinkImagine breaking down on a gravel road where the nearest help is 475 miles away — and winter temperatures hit 40 below zero. Quebec's Trans-Taiga Road ends at a point so remote that a broken tire might require an emergency plane landing to deliver a replacement. —

AI note-takers are flooding virtual meetings

3 July 2025 @ 6:30 pm

Automaton (fotopanorama360 / Shutterstock.com)When a Washington Post reporter logged into a Zoom interview recently, the only other attendee was an AI bot. After nine awkward minutes of talking to the silent digital note taker, she gave up and left. These AI assistants are invading virtual workspaces in such numbers that they sometimes outnumber humans. —

Manhattan-sized comet becomes third confirmed interstellar object

3 July 2025 @ 4:37 pm

Projected trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (NASA/JPL-Caltech)At 152,000 miles per hour — fast enough to circle Earth six times in one minute — a massive interstellar comet is passing through our solar system, offering astronomers the first good look at a chunk of another star's leftovers. "This thing is coming in at such an incredible speed that absolutely nothing in the Solar System could have caused this," said astronomer Jonti Horner. —

You'll never believe how precious baby condors are!

3 July 2025 @ 4:06 pm

California Condor (Barbara Ash/shutterstock)This adorable chick is one of ten baby condors who has successfully hatched this year as part of Los Angeles Zoo's California condor breeding program, whose goal is to help grow the population of North America's largest land bird. L.A. Zoo states that all of the new chicks are eligible for release int

Happy World Porcupine Day!

3 July 2025 @ 4:05 pm

Fox and the Hedgehog (Porcupine), by Samuel Howitt, (1805) Public DomainHappy World Porcupine Day! July 2nd is a day to appreciate and celebrate our quill-covered friends! International Days explains that there is great diversity among the roughly two dozen species of porcupines that are scattered all around the world — some spend most of their time in trees munching on bark and stems, while others are primarily ground-dwellers, living in deserts, grasslands, and forests and chowing down on

Microsoft Office is just $20 right now — own it for life, no MSO 365 fees

3 July 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for WindowsTL;DR: For a limited time, grab Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 f

View moon phases as ASCII art

3 July 2025 @ 1:55 pm

ASCII Moon PhaseSean Rooney's Moon Phase Tracker displays the current phase of the moon as beautiful, animated ASCII art. Note that it's wristwatch-style phases (like a lunar eclipse) not natural ones. ASCIIMoon is a small web app that tracks the moon's phases and uses ASCII art to create a basic visual r