The scariest scene from the movie Contagion. Three days ago, NPR reported that 45 cats were confirmed sick with H7N2, a rare form of avian flu making the leap from birds to felines. Poor kitties. But Thursday morning, the NYC Department of Health confirmed H7N2 has spread from cats to humans, infecting a veterinarian caring for the cats who had tested positive for bird flu. Read more…
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Veterinarian Catches Rare Form of Bird Flu From a Sick Cat Who Maybe Ate a Pigeon
By now the Amazon boxes are piling up in your house before the holidays. Before you toss them in the recycling, Give Back Box wants them. The service, in partnership with Amazon, will give you free shipping labels to send donations to Goodwill. Read more…
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Use Your Old Amazon Boxes to Ship Donations to Goodwill For Free
A large fire has engulfed scores of houses, shops, and other buildings in the Japanese coastal city of Itoigawa. The blaze, which started mid-morning local time, shows no sign of slowing, and fire crews are frantically working to put out the flames. Read more…
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Huge Fire Torches 140 Buildings in Japanese City
Image: De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Beneath eighteen hundred miles of crust and mantle flows a molten iron hell river whose satanic secrets the European Space Agency has unleashed. Cool! Read more…
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An Iron Hell River Is Flowing Beneath The Earth
There’s something a little inelegant about covering your gifts with odd bits of tape. It’s quite literally the rough duct tape solution to wrapping presents. If you don’t have any tape or ribbon want to avoid a tacky aesthetic, this Japanese method can keep your presents wrapped sans sticky tape. Read more…
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Wrap Gifts Without Any Tape or Ribbon Using This Japanese Method
We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends… and it turns out a former Time Lord and Marvel villain is lending his brogue to Scrooge McDuck himself. Read more…
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David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are coming together to form the fifth largest U.S. carrier, and if you fly either airline often their merger means a few changes for you. Here’s what you can expect. Read more…
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Alaska Airlines and Virgin America Are Merging, Here’s What It Means for You
The U.S. Department Of Transportation and automakers have been testing the concept of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication for years. Today the agency said it’s getting serious about having cars talk to each other for safety, and has proposed specific rules and methods that would force automakers to load vehicles with this tech on all new vehicles by 2023. Read more…
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The Feds Want All New Cars To Talk To Each Other By 2023
Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death. The moray eel looks like it has the clear advantage because, well, it’s a big ass bully with the octopus in its jaws but after a few whips around, the octopus grapples the eels with its tentacles and then unleashes an ink bomb in time to confuse the eel and escape. Phew. Read more…
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I’m Not Sure Who Won This Octopus vs Eel vs Human Fight
Image: Gizmodo Who doesn’t hate carrying around their laptop? Even the lightest ones weigh a couple of pounds and can be a huge burden to lug around the city. That’s where portable apps, ones stored on a USB drive, come in. Read more…
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How to Turn a USB Stick into an Ultra Portable PC