For years, prairie dogs have been the bane of cattle ranchers, whose livestock are routinely injured when stepping in prairie dog holes. In response, ranchers have gassed, poisoned, drowned, or buried entire colonies alive. But one enterprising pest control company has devised a more humane method of removing the rodents—with a modified sewer cleaning truck. Read more…
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This Giant Vacuum Sucks Prairie Dogs Right Out of Their Holes
Facebook is getting some long overdue functionality to help you find not just people and pages, but also specific posts from the past. So as in the example above, if you search for your friend Jessica’s wedding, it’ll search full posts for keywords “Jessica” and “wedding” and hopefully return the result you were looking for. It’s hard to believe this is new. Read more…
On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences, postcards, and notes detailing the life of one of the world’s greatest thinkers. As The New York Times reports , these are The Dead Sea Scrolls of physics and you can read them today for free. Read more…
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Tons of Albert Einstein Documents Are Now Online for Free
The CarPlay interface is undoubtedly better for using while driving than the regular ‘ole screen. But unless you’ve got a shiny new car (or one of the expensive aftermarket dashes), chances are you don’t have anything to pair your iPhone with. But this tweak gives you an idea of what CarPlay would look like running on just your handset. Read more…
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This Tweak Puts CarPlay On Your iPhone Without An External Screen
There’s residential design, and then there’s jigsaw puzzle design. This elegant project by the San Francisco architect Christi Azevedo , who wedged a full guest house into a laundry and boiler room from 1916, f alls somewhere in between the two. Read more…
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There’s an Entire House Crammed Into This Tiny 98-Year-Old Boiler Room
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be? Read more…
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Could You Launch Someone Into the Sun With a Big Enough Cannon?
When I saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens , it felt instantly familiar. That’s very probably because anything Star Wars feels nostalgic but also because, well, we’ve seen all those scenes from the trailer before! Here is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens remade shot-by-shot with original footage. Read more…
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New Star Wars trailer perfectly remade with original Star Wars footage
What most often gives away a CG character as fake is their dead, lifeless eyes. It’s a common contributing factor to the uncanny valley effect, but now researchers at Disney have developed a system to perfectly capture a performer’s eyes that promises to make CG characters finally appear more lifelike and convincing. Read more…
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Disney’s Super-Realistic CG Eyeballs Are an Uncanny Valley Airlift
The Centers for Disease Control has some dubious competition in the mishandling deadly pathogens business. A investigation by the Guardian reveals dozens of serious safety lapses in UK labs. In one case, a government lab shipped out live anthrax because someone had grabbed the wrong tubes. Read more…
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A UK Government Lab Accidentally Mailed Out Live Anthrax
During a court hearing in Oakland, California, it’s come to light that, between 2007 and 2009, Apple deleted tracks downloaded from rival music services off of iPods. Read more…
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Apple Deleted Competitors’ Songs From Your iPod