Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France Durov was naturalized as French in August 2021. […] He lives in Dubai. In April 2021, he received United Arab Emirates citizenship. Since 2010 he has fathered over 100 children via sperm donation in 12 nations
110K domains targeted in ’sophisticated’ AWS cloud extortion campaign
Belisa Pang has an important new paper out about repeat filers, “The Bankruptcy Revolving Door.” Using new techniques and as well as a database of credit reports, she estimates the percentage of bankruptcy filers who are repeat filers is 36%. In 2023, she estimates the figure was 46%.
Regulations implemented in 2020 by the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) significantly reduced sulfur pollution from ships by over 80%, improving air quality globally. However, this reduction has also diminished the formation of low-lying, reflective clouds that follow in ships’ wakes and play a crucial role in cooling the planet. Studies have shown that by drastically reducing the number of ship tracks, the planet has warmed at a faster rate, particularly in the Atlantic, where maritime traffic is dense.
Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show — Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight
How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse
Owning a crocodile as a pet becomes election issue in Northern Territory (Australia)
Time is another paradoxical component of the monotype process. While painting and drawing are mediums that depend on an accumulation of marks made over time, a monotype is printed at a particular moment in the development of the image on the plate, therefore endowing the work with a distinctive sense of immediacy. The artist must work relatively quickly, before the medium dries, and, as the plate can be wiped clean at any time in the drawing process, the artist may make wholesale changes right up until the paper goes through the press.
M&Ms on checkerboard trick your brain
Starting in 2008, Norman Bates has been hanging around the motel and can sometimes be seen by tourists on the Studio Tour tram passing by. More: The Psycho House
Women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025. That’s according to a futurologist, who also thinks robot sex will be more common than human intercourse by 2050
Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain’s auditory regions similarly to heard speech
AI Cheating is getting worse. Colleges still don’t have a plan.
The citation black market: schemes selling fake references alarm scientists. The ways in which researchers can artificially inflate their reference counts are growing.
Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia
Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller
In 2016, British artist Stuart Semple created the fluorescent pink paint pigment earlier this year, in retaliation to “rotter” Kapoor buying the exclusive rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black ever created. The cerise pink shade is available to all artists except Kapoor, who is legally banned from purchasing it. […] despite the ban, Kapoor has got his hands on Semple’s Pink shade and posted a picture of his middle finger dipped in the paint.
Our case report provides the first clinical evaluation of autopsy practices for a patient death that occurs on the cloud — The patient was a British man in his 50s, who came to the attention of the medical team via an alert on the cloud-based platform that monitored his implanted cardioverter defibrillator
In seven studies, including an in-person real gifting study, we find that receiving a small material gift, such as a candy bar or flowers, improves receivers’ affect more than a supportive conversation with a close other does.
AI poses no existential threat to humanity – new study finds — Large language models like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills
The Transportation Department is releasing the deployment plan for vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology across U.S. roads and highways. V2X allows cars and trucks to exchange location information with each other, and potentially cyclists and pedestrians, as well as with the roadway infrastructure itself. “The roadway system is safer when all the vehicles are connected, and all the road users are connected”
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the world’s largest emergency supply of crude oil. In huge underground salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico, the American federal government can store up to 714 million barrels, more than what the country uses in one month. Historically, the SPR has been tapped at the discretion of the president when natural disasters or crises cause the price of oil for consumers to spike. […] what if the SPR wasn’t just used as a stockpile of a commodity? If it used its ability to acquire oil strategically, could it support American industry and calm oil markets? […] A fixed-price futures contract for the SPR is the vanilla idea. I will also add that we had more creative ideas. That level of complexity may have spooked some folks at the DOE.
A phenomenon referred to as “population stereotypes” helps explain how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy. […] In a test of telepathy, a “sender” would take each card from a shuffled deck in turn and attempt to telepathically transmit the image on the card to a “receiver.” The receiver would record their guess of which card the sender was looking at. By chance alone, we would expect around five of the receiver’s guesses to be correct. If the receiver scores significantly more than five, this might be taken as evidence of ESP. However, it has been known for over eight decades that people are more likely to guess certain symbols compared to others.
Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures
“Rules for the direction of the mind,” from an unfinished treatise by René Descartes
Waymo self-driving cars honking at each other at 4 a.m. in parking lot
Five-second breaks can help defuse couples’ arguments, study shows
The brain creates three copies for a single memory
Seeking the roots of the placebo effect, neuroscientists find the brain circuit that delivers relief
Research and lived experience indicate that many people who begin a new exercise program see little if any improvement in their health and fitness even after weeks of studiously sticking with their new routine. Among fitness scientists, these people are known as “nonresponders.” Their bodies simply don’t respond to the exercise they are doing. But an inspiring and timely new study suggests that nonresponders to one form of exercise can probably switch to another exercise regimen to which their body will respond.
Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync
The asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter
Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators
Kangaroo escapes from prison in Czech Republic. The prison is home to other animals including rabbits, llamas and roosters. They are part of a prison program that allows prisoners nearing the ends of their terms to learn skills including farming and animal husbandry as a form of therapy.
Attorneys for Disney World are seeking to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a husband over the death of his wife last year because of the terms and conditions he agreed to when signing up for Disney+ streaming service several years earlier.
GLP-1 receptor agonist medications like Ozempic are already FDA-approved to treat diabetes and obesity. But an increasing body of research finds they’re also effective against stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and drug addiction. GLP-1 drugs are starting to feel more like the magic herb. Why?
Scientists Have Finally Identified Where Gluten Intolerance Begins
Research suggests that rather than being a slow and steady process, aging occurs in at least two accelerated bursts. The study, which tracked thousands of different molecules in people aged 25 to 75, detected two major waves of age-related changes at around ages 44 and again at 60.
Science denial “memes” are a viral form of communication that attempt to undermine complex scientific ideas using memorable soundbites. These memes misrepresent the scientific content they are “debunking”, making responding to them challenging: how do you argue with a meme? […] Meme-ing a rebuttal can be a counter-productive strategy for science communication.
The girls are using ChatGPT to see if men are lying about their height on dating apps. Upload 4 pictures, it uses proportions and surroundings to estimate height.
Chart made in Germany in the 18th century describing the characters of European nations
Low resale values for electric cars have pushed the leasing firms that drive Europe’s auto market to double prices over the last three years, some are threatening to quit the business altogether if regulators force them to go electric too fast.
Inside Silicon Valley’s Grand Ambitions To Control Our Planet’s Thermostat Firms are flocking to invest in geoengineering projects. Could they turn a profit by preventing peril?
Brands should avoid the “AI” label on products. It’s turning off customers.
The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them
Hacking the Largest Airline and Hotel Rewards Platform — Between March 2023 and May 2023, we identified multiple security vulnerabilities within points.com, the backend provider for a significant portion of airline and hotel rewards programs. These vulnerabilities would have enabled an attacker to access sensitive customer account information, including names, billing addresses, redacted credit card details, emails, phone numbers, and transaction records. Moreover, the attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to perform actions such as transferring points from customer accounts and gaining unauthorized access to a global administrator website. This unauthorized access would grant the attacker full permissions to issue reward points, manage rewards programs, oversee customer accounts, and execute various administrative functions.
Scientists find oceans of water on Mars: It’s just too deep to tap
Just how kinky are you? Take the quiz
YouTube ban streamer for attempting to break world record for number of days without sleep […] Norme was over 250 hours into his “no sleep” attempt when the platform removed his stream.
Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep. In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours). Gardner’s record was then broken multiple times until 1997, when Guinness World Records ceased accepting new attempts for safety reasons. At that point, the record was held by Robert McDonald at 18 days and 21 hours (453 hours and 40 minutes).
China will have nearly twice as many pets as young children by 2030 — China’s cat ownership will surpass that of dogs
Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia
Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless
Inside the company that gathers ‘human data’ for every major AI firm
A primer on the current state of longevity research
YouTuber ‘Norme’ has been Awake on Livestream For 228 Hours Trying To Break The Record For No Sleep
The Rise of the Kidney-Shaped Pool and Its Unexpected Impact on Skate Culture
More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland — More than every tenth train from Germany was stopped at the Swiss border in the first quarter of this year. If Deutsche Bahn trains are late, they have to stop at the Swiss border. [Switzerland] wants to ensure punctuality in its own network with this measure.
World’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas
Meta Allows Drug Ads Selling Everything from Opioids to Cocaine
FDA rejects MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD
How Long Does Music Stardom Last? A Statistical Analysis
In the early days of TV and movies, people reported dreaming in black and white more than they do now, he said. In a 1942 study, around 70 percent of people said that they dreamed this way. When that same study was replicated nearly 60 years later, the number had dropped to under 18 percent.
We have known for some time that touch sensations from the genital region pass through four different nerves on their way to the spinal cord and, ultimately, the brain. Of these, the pudendal nerve is the most important for sexual sensation, carrying signals from the clitoris in cisgendered women and the penis in cisgendered men. In women, the pelvic nerve conveys touch signals from the labia minora, the vaginal walls, the anus and the rectum. In men, the pudendal nerve carries information from the anus and the scrotum as well as the penis. In women, sensations from the cervix and the uterus can also be conveyed by the hypogastric nerve as well as the vagus nerve, which travels directly to the brain stem, thereby bypassing the spinal cord entirely. Touch signals from the pelvis ultimately arrive at the outer rind of the brain, a region called the neocortex, where they are represented in a distorted and fragmented body map in the primary somatosensory region.
Seismic advances in generative AI algorithms for imagery, text, and other data types have led to the temptation to use AI-synthesized data to train next-generation models. Repeating this process creates an autophagous (“self-consuming”) loop whose properties are poorly understood. […] Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease. We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD), by analogy to mad cow disease, and show that appreciable MADness arises in just a few generations.
Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers
Engineering the world’s highest cited cat — A couple of weeks ago, Nick Wise showed me an advertisement from a paper mill offering to boost the buyer’s citation count and h-index on their Google Scholar profile. […] First, we generated 12 papers (using Mathgen) with Larry Richardson as the sole author. We then generated an additional 12 papers not authored by Larry, editing the LaTeX document of each paper so that each cited every one of Larry’s 12 papers (12 papers with 12 citations each = 144 citations with an h-index of 12).
You can find gibberish AI recipes on YouTube as well. One channel, SuperRecipess, has 1.19 million subscribers despite being driven by AI and despite its videos being called things like “I never bought ice-cream again, I only make it like this now” […] the recipes are often extraordinarily disgusting. […] publishers might want 10 books on air fryer recipes generated quickly. Rather than paying an author between £30,000 and £100,000 to do so, they might simply use AI and pay a popular food writer a £10,000 endorsement fee.
Five years ago, Brian Frye set an elaborate trap. Now the law professor is teaming up with a singer-songwriter to finally spring it on the SEC in a novel lawsuit —- and in the process, prevent the regulator from ever coming after NFT art projects again. Earlier this week, Frye and musician Jonathan Mann filed a federal lawsuit against the SEC […] The offbeat saga of this week’s lawsuit begins in 2019, when Frye, an expert in securities law and a fan of novel technologies, minted an NFT of a letter he sent to the SEC in which he declared his art project to constitute an illegal, unregistered security. If the conceptual art project wasn’t a security, Frye challenged the agency, then it needed to say so. The SEC never responded to Frye.
Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign
Cellular senescence was discovered four decades ago, but scientists still don’t fully understand why it happens. One of the most widely accepted explanations is that the ends of each cell’s chromosomes—called telomeres—shorten a little during each replication and at some point signal the cell to stop dividing in order to protect itself from potential damage. The cells don’t necessarily die as a result, but they can no longer divide and function like younger, healthy cells.
Zugzwang (from German ‘compulsion to move’) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be “in zugzwang” when any legal move will worsen their position.
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
The AI boyfriend business is booming A growing number of women are seeking connection and comfort in relationships with chatbots
Friend.com, video, it doesn’t help you be more productive, it just keeps you company
Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is an “Enlightened and miraculous being” with a Google Scholar page, an h-index of 62, and 12,031 citations of his work. Most of these are self-citations from a tangled collection of predatory journals that publish questionable papers without proper peer review. Guruji Trivedi claims to have the ability to harness his own “biofield energy to change the behaviour and characteristics of living organisms including soil, seeds, plants, trees, animals, microbes, and humans, along with non-living materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, chemicals, pharmaceutical compounds and nutraceuticals, etc.”
The h-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. […] Hirsch estimated that after 20 years a “successful scientist” would have an h-index of 20, an “outstanding scientist” would have an h-index of 40, and a “truly unique” individual would have an h-index of 60
How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood […] The rule seems to be that any brain region that changes size during pregnancy shrinks. Numerous brain structures are affected, including the ventral striatum, which is involved in reward processing, and the hypothalamus, which is instrumental in controlling instinctive behaviours. The hippocampus, a structure essential for memory, also transiently shrinks during gestation. […] After birth, most changes quickly and fully reverse — except in the default mode network. […] the default mode network is involved in social processes such as theory of mind and empathy; in thinking about and understanding others and yourself.
This is the story of the various histories of the Internet, where they came from and which ones are real. Was the Internet designed to withstand a nuclear attack?
New study finds people alter their appearance to suit their names
Boxers who failed gender tests at world championships cleared to compete at Olympics
OnlyFans is a porn-saturated website that offers its subscribers a chance to forge “authentic relationships” with content creators. But many OnlyFans porn stars rely on “chatters” to impersonate them in messages designed to pry dollars from randy subscribers. And, increasingly, some of those chatters aren’t even human – they’re AI bots.
AI is complicating plagiarism.
A veteran investigator of video-game leaks reveals the tricks of the trade
Cancer Risk From Pesticides Comparable To Smoking For Some Cancers
Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact
I kind of date like a man. I know what I want. Recently, I met somebody I really liked, and my head whipped around and I was like, “Oh my God. Now that’s the guy I’d like to… you know.” It turns out he’s married, but it doesn’t matter. The point is that I think you know when somebody walks in the room. I know from my first marriage to the Count. We met, got married two weeks later. Five days [into the marriage] he goes, “You’re going to be the mother of my children.” I said, “I already know that.”
Brain-Invading Parasite Could Be Hacked to Deliver Meds in Your Head
Ford is trying to patent a way for its cars to report speeding drivers to the police. The patent said vehicles would monitor other vehicles using onboard cameras. Related: Ford has lost $2.5 billion on electric vehicles so far in 2024
Tesla’s Cybertrucks are being mistaken for garbage cans by dumpster-diving raccoons
Burglars are jamming Wi-Fi security cameras […] homeowners should use old-fashioned, wired sets of security cameras that require more elaborate installations and extra hardware
In 2023, Tinder’s base of 10 million subscription-paying users decreased by 8 percent following three consecutive quarters of declines. By the end of 2023, the stock price of Match Group, which operates the largest portfolio of online dating services, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge, had tumbled to about a fifth of its peak in 2021. Bumble’s stock, too, has fallen as much as 85 percent since its February 2021 IPO. To say that mainstream dating apps are in their flop era is not a controversial statement in 2024. Online and off, daters bemoan the user experience
We analyze the economic consequences of rising health care prices in the US. […] A 1% increase in health care prices lowers both payroll and employment at firms outside the health sector by approximately 0.4%. […] we estimate that a 1% increase in health care prices leads to a 1 per 100,000 population (2.7%) increase in deaths from suicides and overdoses.
You can slow a rapid heart rate, caused by anxiety and even cardiac arrhythmias, using a classic technique called vagal maneuvers. These are simple actions that engage the vagus nerve — the major nerve connecting the brain to your internal organs. The straw trick: Place a straw in your mouth and pinch the other end closed. Blow for about 15-20 seconds. If you don’t have a straw, place your finger in your mouth and blow against it as if it were a straw. The technique is one example of a “Valsalva maneuver” — named after the Italian physician who discovered it. […] The easiest places to find a pulse are either the brachial artery (in your wrist) or the carotid artery (in your neck). Personally, I tend to find the carotid more readily palpable — that’s the one TV detectives check when they walk in on a murder scene, right before sadly shaking their heads. Use the pads of your index and middle finger — not your thumb, which has its own pulse and can confuse you. Slide two fingers to either side of your windpipe around the level of your Adam’s apple. Count your heartbeats for 15 seconds and then multiply by four to get a rough estimate. […] It’s normal for your heart to race when you’re frightened or stressed […] Panic attacks are common: At least 11 percent of American adults experience one each year. […] But sometimes people’s hearts start to race for no apparent reason. This is never normal.
In 1876 the Belgian Society for the Elevation of the Domestic Cat transported 37 cats from Liège to the surrounding countryside. Released at 2 p.m., the first had found its way home by 6:48, and the rest followed within a day. ”It is proposed to establish a regular system of cat communication between Liège and the neighboring villages. […] Messages are to be fastened in water-proof bags around the necks of the animals.”
An Australian field hockey player has opted to amputate part of his finger to compete at the Paris Olympics. Matt Dawson badly broke a digit on his right hand during team training in Perth two weeks ago, and recovery from surgery to repair it would have taken months.
Valeria was studying engineering in Venezuela before she arrived in Cúcuta at the start of 2023 to be what she called a camgirl. With her family struggling to eat, she said she made the decision to leave for Colombia […] A 2022 study estimated that in the border cities of Cúcuta and Villa Rosario alone, there were between 800 and 1,000 webcam houses hosting an estimated 11,700 migrants across them, the majority of whom are Venezuelan. The number of these houses could now be as high as 3,000.
In the film’s final scene, after deciding to leave Barbieland for the real world, Barbie enthusiastically tells a receptionist, “I’m here to see my gynecologist”[…] We hypothesized that this final line may have spurred public interest in gynecologic care. […] In the week following Barbie’s release, there were large increases in the national online search volume for terms referring to gynecologists and gynecologist definition. Meanwhile, there were no changes in searches for gynecologist appointments.
A 2022 study, using a sample of 953 people in the US who meditated regularly, showed that over 10 percent of participants experienced adverse effects […] According to a review of over 40 years of research that was published in 2020, the most common adverse effects are anxiety and depression.
More than one-third of the planet’s land is used to produce food, and 70 percent of all fresh water is used to irrigate farmland. […] the equivalent of South America is now used to grow crops, and the equivalent of Africa is used to graze animals. […] And according to the World Resources Institute, we may need to add almost two Indias to the world’s existing farmland to meet food needs in the second half of this century. — but adding that farmland means cutting down forests, which store carbon, in order to graze more animals, which produce carbon. […] agriculture is responsible for one-third of the global total of emissions [NY Times]
Death Valley heat melts skin off a man’s feet after he lost his flip-flops in the dunes. To make matters worse, the temperatures made the air too thin for a helicopter to fly in and help him.
A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow The trend toward ad-free cities poses a risk to the outdoor advertising industry, worth an estimated 400 million Swiss francs ($450 million) and contributing almost twice as much per year to the country’s $885 billion GDP. Markus Ehrle, the industry association’s president, said that money would instead “flow to big internet companies like Google or Meta,” adding that “ads online are much more energy-intensive than billboards.”
We bought everything needed to make fentanyl - for $3,600. At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills.
water triggers our parasympathetic nervous system, helping our body rest and digest […] explains why so many people find joy and solace in water-related activities. […] Whether you’re planning a refreshing dip, a leisurely stroll along the coastline or a run along a canal, it’s crucial to know how to stay safe. following these five simple steps are highly effective
Across languages, the species–typical vocalization by domestic cats (Felis catus silvestris) is transcribed similarly, typically corresponding to [miau:] or [wau:]. Such consistent and ubiquitous cross-linguistic transcription is apparently onomatopoetic. However, in humans, these qualities make unique use of the tongue; in comparison, most nonhuman mammals do not appear to employ their tongues while vocalizing.
“Hello Kitty is not a cat” (Jill Cook, Director of retail business development at Sanrio) Previously: alternative facts are not facts
Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models. […] We refer to this effect as ‘model collapse’ […] the value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be increasingly valuable in the presence of LLM-generated content in data crawled from the Internet.
Watches account for around 30% of all counterfeit goods.
Global enterprises are grappling with the complexities of AI adoption. While enthusiasm for AI remains high, the path from pilot projects to full-scale implementation is proving slower than anticipated.
Some venomous snakes can bite even when they’re dead and decapitated
When you ask ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead shortens the text.
Our brain doesn’t perceive time as a clock. Instead, time flows with experiences, study
After spending more than $20 billion to produce original TV shows and movies that not a lot of people watch, Apple is starting to refine its strategy in Hollywood. […] Apple TV+ generates less viewing in one month than Netflix does in one day.
US Gen Z shopping habits & retail trends for 2024 — 56% of US Gen Z prefer to shop online than in-store […] Year-on-year, purchases of pet accessories (+20%) and grooming supplies (+19%) are also up. […] The number of US Gen Z who are willing to sacrifice other spending to buy a product sooner has dropped 13% YoY.
Change in global value variation, study
Do you want to hear how a Flemish illuminator, Lieven van Lathem dazzled readers in 1464 with the manuscript, Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies?
A significant correlation was identified between increased sleep duration and cognitive decline
Human parasites in the Roman World — Despite their large multi-seat public latrines with washing facilities, sewer systems, sanitation legislation, fountains and piped drinking water from aqueducts, we see the widespread presence of whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica that causes dysentery. This would suggest that the public sanitation measures were insufficient to protect the population from parasites spread by fecal contamination. Ectoparasites such as fleas, head lice, body lice, pubic lice and bed bugs were also present, and delousing combs have been found. The evidence fails to demonstrate that the Roman culture of regular bathing in the public baths reduced the prevalence of these parasites. Fish tapeworm was noted to be widely present, and was more common than in Bronze and Iron Age Europe. It is possible that the Roman enthusiasm for fermented, uncooked fish sauce (garum) may have facilitated the spread of this helminth.
In this paper, I try to add details and credence to a previously suggested, evolution-based model of consciousness. According to this model, the feature started to evolve in early amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) some 320 million years ago. The reason was the introduction of feelings as a strategy for making behavioral decisions.
Designing a fake delivery company seemed to be the most logical, straightforward way of contacting a person. Hence, ”Future Delivers” was born. The company’s concept is that it delivers parcels from the future. This allows your future self in the year 2064 to send a parcel to your past self in the year 2024, filled with good advice, artefacts from the future, and warnings to hopefully improve your life ahead. […] we’re doing serious business here: delivery release documents, uniforms, wax seal, stickers, branded boxes, custom email address with delivery update notifications, blog, brand ambassador and of course, a delivery robot dog off AliExpress.
Every startup in JD Vance’s VC fund, Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview
Robot Dog Cleans Up Beaches With Foot-Mounted Vacuums — Cigarette butts are the second most common undisposed-of litter on Earth—of the six trillion-ish cigarettes inhaled every year, it’s estimated that over 4 trillion of the butts are just tossed onto the ground, each one leeching over 700 different toxic chemicals into the environment.
Each winter, a team of Tasmania Parks and Wildlife staff take on the task of cleaning the state’s show caves. The crew removes clothing fibres, microplastics, and dirt and spores brought in on visitors’ shoes.
Rare photos of uncontacted Amazon tribes, video
“I got a salmon sperm facial with salmon sperm injected into my face.” […] salmon sperm facials have enchanted Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston
