Britain’s largest ‘sea dragon’ fossil longer than a double decker bus found in Rutland reservoir
The remains are the biggest and most complete Ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK The fossilised remains of a ten metre long ichthyosaur – also known as a ‘sea dragon’ – have been found in a reservoir owned by Anglian Water in Rutland. Dating back 180 million years, it is the largest and most […]
Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse plan, saying it’s dystopian
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, made fun of the metaverse on Tuesday. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, said he wants Facebook to become a “metaverse company.” Dorsey agreed with a tweet that said the metaverse could be “a dystopian corporate dictatorship.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made fun of the “metaverse,” a concept Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]
Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims
Hundreds of thousands of Uighur have been detained without trial in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Internment camps with up to a million prisoners. Empty neighborhoods. Students, musicians, athletes, and peaceful academics jailed. A massive high-tech surveillance state that monitors and judges every movement. The future of more than 10 million Uighurs, the members of China’s Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, is looking increasingly grim. As […]
The Guggenheim’s First Robotic Artwork Is Out of Control
Talking to artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, the ghosts inside the machine. An enormous robotic arm, brandishing a giant squeegee, is poised over a pool of dark liquid which ceaselessly oozes outwards. With quick, smooth, aggressive movements, the machine performs a calculated dance, pivoting and dragging its squeegee across the surface in a perpetual […]
Does Elon Musk have a twin he’s not telling us about? Fans confused by Chinese doppelgänger
In a video published to Facebook, which was initially found on a TikTok-style app called Douyin, the man could be seen standing next to a black car wearing all-black while talking and looking at the camera. The similarities between the man and the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is quite remarkable. Although the man hasn’t been named, he’s been revered as […]
Chernobyl power plant scares again. The risk of another explosion is “probable”.
Radioactive waste in the basement of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant is making its presence known. The increasing number of neutrons in that area indicates that nuclear reactions are occurring again, which in an extreme scenario could lead to an explosion. Recently, there have been signs of nuclear reactions between particles of uranium fuel […]
How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees
If you were online during January 2020 you likely saw the barrage of video clips that were supposedly coming out of China depicting ghastly “Coronavirus” scenes. Most of those videos have been quietly wiped off the internet, but back in January and February those grisly videos were a viral sensation and they scared the sense […]
The Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993
Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we’re going to write it. — Eric HughesThe Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993 In 1992, three Bay Area computer scientists launched a new mailing list for discussing cryptography, mathematics, politics, and philosophy. They called the members of this mailing list the cypherpunks: a […]
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25. An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, […]
The Rolling Stones Team Up With Boston Dynamics For ‘Start Me Up’ Video
The Rolling Stones and Boston Dynamics have dropped a special collaboration video, as Boston Dynamics robots imitate Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood to recreate a new eye-catching version of the band’s iconic “Start Me Up” video from 1981. The track celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. In a first of its kind […]