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Category: Coping with COVID

Passengers left screaming after Tesla detects ‘ghosts’ in graveyard

LadBible A Tesla driver and his passengers were left shaken up after the car started to detect ‘ghosts’ walking through a cemetery near to the real life house from The Conjuring. The bloke claimed to have been driving through a cemetery near to the Arnold Estate, which is the real-life inspiration for the 2013 flick, when figures started […]

Jan 24, 2024

Pediatricians See an Alarming Number of Noodle-Soup Burns

The Atlantic When the weather turns frigid, there is only one thing to do: make a pot of chicken-noodle soup. On the first cold afternoon in early December, I simmered a whole rotisserie chicken with fennel, dill, and orzo, then ladled it into bowls for a cozy family meal. Just as I thought we’d reached […]

Jan 16, 2024

Here are the most notable memes of 2023

NBC News 2023 marked another year of meme-ories. Like in past years, many online turned to memes as a form of escapism. “Memes seemed to be a primary way people dealt with and processed and reacted to news this year,” said Jessica Maddox, assistant professor of digital media at the University of Alabama. They also […]

Jan 2, 2024

Barbie, the Titan submersible and everything else we Googled in 2023

Washington Post A lost submersible, an NFL safety who collapsed on field, the Israel-Gaza war and a ‘Friends’ star who died were some of the most searched terms in the United States on Google in 2023, according to the search engine’s year in review. People also searched for the “Barbie” movie, asked how often people think about the Roman Empire and tried to […]

Dec 26, 2023

Namesake of the poinsettia, enslaver, secret agent and perpetrator of the ‘Trail of Tears’

The Conversation If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of the red and green poinsettia plant. In the late 1820s, while serving as the first ambassador from the U.S. to Mexico, Poinsett clipped samples of the plant known in Spanish as the “flor de nochebuena,” or flower of Christmas Eve, from […]

Dec 19, 2023

The unsung geniuses who uncovered why we sleep and dream

Nature Just 100 years ago, we understood astoundingly little about sleep and dreaming. A tight-knit band of researchers changed things, against sometimes considerable odds. Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep Kenneth Miller Hachette (2023) Sleep and dreaming are human universals. Yet only in the past century has science begun to appreciate […]

Dec 12, 2023

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

MIT Tech Review The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.  A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the […]

Dec 12, 2023

Pandemic Throwback: That time the guy drinking cranberry juice on a skateboard went viral

Nathan Apodaca was on the way to work when his truck broke down, so he skateboarded and made a TikTok. I wish I could be so chill.

Dec 5, 2023

New Jersey’s funny traffic signs are back this holiday season

Fox 29 If you ever drive in New Jersey, you might’ve seen a few signs that have been popping up along major roadways featuring a play on words to remind drivers to obey the rules of the road. Similar signs were taken down by the Federal Highway Administration this time last year after it said […]

Nov 29, 2023

That time Sharon Weiss burned a Marie Calendar pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving

It was Thanksgiving 2021 when Sharon Weiss, a grandma from Georgia, posted a photo to the Marie Calendar Facebook page, bitterly writing, “Thanks Marie Calendar for ruining Thanksgiving dessert.” It was early in the pandemic and people needed to vent. The post went viral, and will probably go down in the meme hall of fame. Start with […]

Nov 22, 2023