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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 into the wild as p

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

Family hikes on closed Arizona trail — until their kids collapse from heat and need stretchers (video)

2 July 2025 @ 11:26 pm

Image: Arizona hiking trail at at Camelback Mountain; Jason Finn / shutterstock.comWith Phoenix temperatures already over 100 degrees at 10am last Sunday, officials closed down a popular hiking trail for obvious safety reasons. One Arizona family, however, somehow took the trail-closure signs to be a welcoming invitation, and set off on a late morning hike — only to call for an emergency rescue team once heat exhaustion set in. —

Be ready to party with the Nintendo Switch 2 Charging Dock

2 July 2025 @ 9:00 pm

Charging Dock for Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con ControllersTL;DR: The Switch 2 Charging Dock is available for $18.99 (regular $29.99). The Nintendo Switch 2 means new games, better graphi

Research finds sex dolls exceed natural human proportions by up to 52%

2 July 2025 @ 8:09 pm

Image: Chatty G"The design of sex dolls—unconstrained by biological limitations—offers a unique window into human mate preferences," writes Dr. William Costello in the abstract to his study analyzing sex dolls to understand human attraction. Costello's research, published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, examined the measurements of 793 sex dolls. —

Tesla reports two years of falling sales numbers

2 July 2025 @ 7:11 pm

Image: Rokas Tenys / shutterstock.comNo one is surprised to see another bad quarter of sales for Tesla; the only question is how Musk will spin it. Tesla delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter of this year, wrapping up another weak quarter for the compan

White House staff shocked as Zuckerberg strolls into classified meeting

2 July 2025 @ 6:42 pm

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Phil Pasquini / Shutterstock.com)"Who invited the stooge?!" I wonder who had Meta CEO and meat-smoking enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg casually strolling into a classified meeting about secret war planes on their bingo card. Nothing is sacred anymore, and access is clearly for sale. Easter, Birthday parades, whatever — sponsor it and you too can walk around the White House unfettered. —

Now that it's "finished," the Star Wars High Republic project has something for everyone

2 July 2025 @ 6:23 pm

credit: hafizi / Shutterstock.comI just finished Charles Soule's Trials of the Jedi, which serves as a wonderful "finale" to Disney's High Republic