If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn’t apply to you. Don’t eat gluten. But if you don’t have Celiac—and that’s 99% of the human population, mind you—there’s no reason to be gluten free. You’re wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it’s useless to be gluten free . Seriously. People, the father of gluten free think it’s bullshit. Read more…
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Being gluten free is dumb because gluten intolerance may not even exist
Agents from the Agencia Tributaria— the Spanish IRS—announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting “Cypr ess, sky and field” was discovered in a safe deposit box that belonged to a Spanish fraudster. Read more…
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Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault
Mat Ames found some negatives in a thrift store in Roanoke, Virginia. After digitizing them, a lot of the photos seemed to belong to a couple’s vacation in Naples, Italy, in 1938. Among all the scenic Italian vignettes there was a creepy surprise—a sinister figure sitting in a car under the sun. It was Adolf Hitler. Read more…
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Hitler materializes in lost family trip photos found at thrift store
How did Beethoven, Mozart, Freud, Dickens, Darwin, Le Corbusier or Benjamin Franklin managed to be so productive and create some of the most important work in the history of art and science? Check out this great visualization by Info We Trust and find solace in the fact that some of them didn’t actually work that much. Read more…
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The daily schedules of the world’s greatest geniuses
Surprise! NASA just issued a last minute asteroid notice: Today, a 100-foot (30 meter) asteroid called 2014 DX110 is going to fly by Earth closer than the Moon. The closest point will be 217, 000 miles (about 350, 000 kilometers) at around 4PM Eastern Standard Time. Read more…
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NASA announces asteroid will fly by Earth today closer than the Moon
aloniv writes “The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau has reached another milestone. ‘The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch has recently acquired everything that’s necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware. Together with a current version of libdrm and the Nouveau 3D driver in Mesa 3D 9.0, this allows Linux applications to use 3D acceleration even with the most recent GeForce graphics cards.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs
An anonymous reader writes with news that Valve has updated its Hardware & Software Survey for December 2012, which reflects the first month of the platform being available for Linux. Even though the project is still in a beta test, players on Ubuntu already account for 0.8% of Steam usage. The 64-bit clients for Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04.1 showed about double the share of the 32-bit versions. MacOS use also showed growth, rising to about 3.7%. Windows 7’s usage share dropped by over 2%, but balanced by the growth of Windows 8, which is now at just under 7%. The total share for Windows is still about 95%. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains