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I always knew that the original Gameboy was remarkably clever, but this video from the Real Engineering YouTube channel shows just how clever it was. The price was low ($89), a set of 4 AA batteries lasted for 30 hours, and, of course, it was fun as hell.

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=BKm45Az02YE

One more month of photos.

A family trip to Belgium, Folkerdey, quite a few things in between, and of course our camper motorway crash false start into the summer holidays.

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I’ll start. I finished the superb Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham and Miranda July’s excellent All Fours within the last few weeks. I’m about halfway through Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. I could not finish Frankenstein — I was so excited and the book was so not my thing.

A friend recommended that I read North Woods by Daniel Mason next but I’ve also got my eye on There There by Tommy Orange and The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn (which I posted about this morning). It’s just over a month until Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo drops…the excerpt piqued my already excited interest.

What’s everyone else reading these days? Or are looking forward to reading?

Tags: books

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The Howtown crew explains how food manufacturers, the USDA, and food label services figure out how many calories are in the foods we eat. Spoiler: it’s not just a matter of burning food to see how much energy is produced — different nutrients are absorbed more or less efficiently by the body so you need to measure the output and compare it to the input.

And don’t forget to check the comments for Joss Fong’s banana oat blobs.

Tags: food · Howtown · Joss Fong · science · video

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Ace drone video by Turkish photographer İbrahim Şimşek. “The wheat is laid out in the sun to dry before being grounded in the mill to make bulgur.”

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Humans are the first and, to our knowledge, only entities on Earth to develop general intelligence, which has allowed us to dominate and alter the planet in a way and at a speed that no other entity has managed. Now, some people are working towards building an artificial g...

A website for taking selfies using NYC traffic cameras. “People can then use the traffic camera like a photo booth by posing for three seconds and tapping on the screen. The webpage will then show the most recent image from the traffic camera.”

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Jamelle Bouie: “If Democrats win control of Washington in November, they should make reforming our democracy a priority” because the Republicans’ “ability to win power without winning votes is a powerful disincentive to change” their extremist ways.

The musician Nick Cave was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week (full interview) and he read a letter from his Red Hand Files, an AMA project where fans write in with questions and he answers them. The question was: Following the last few years I’m feel...

Not a joke: The Onion is bringing back its monthly print newspaper. It’s $60/yr for the print subscription.

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I’d missed that Time magazine is naming a “Kid of the Year” now and this year’s recipient is 15-year-old scientist Heman Bekele, who has developed a soap that could treat and even prevent skin cancer. A few years ago, he read about imiquimod, a drug that, among other use...

Given that we’re all gearing up for the Presidential race, and how gun rights and regulations are almost always centerstage during these times. Today, we’re re-releasing a More Perfect episode that aired just after the October 2017 Las Vegas shooting. It is an episode that a...

Saw this in the bookstore yesterday: The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World. It looks great — the nonfiction equivalent of fiction like Circe and A Thousand Ships that centers women in ancient mythology.

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To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis, it’s being released on vinyl. “A full circle moment to honor the weird little chiptune album that changed my life for the better.”

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Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉 Clear Channel ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier Follow-up: Vista-fication of macOS Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen) What if it’s actually about domestic abuse? The alerts will now be monthly How gas st...

Jonathan Hoefler, who worked on logos for both Obama and Biden, shares how intense the process is for developing political campaign logos, the quick work that the Harris/Walz campaign did over a matter of weeks & days, and the tweaking that continues as time allows. ...

Omer Bartov: “As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.”

This 4K drone video from @liulangCooki‬ takes us on a journey from the base camp at 17,400 feet all the way to the summit of Mount Everest. Along the way, you can see tiny little people hiking up and the paths they take. Very cool.

Tags: Mount Everest · time lapse · video

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