Scientists taught these adorable rats to play hide and seek – Los Angeles Times
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Great… I’ve already seen tumbleweeds the size of a car rolling down the street, back …
Great… I’ve already seen tumbleweeds the size of a car rolling down the street, back when I lived closer to more open space.
California’s Meddlesome Tumbleweeds Could Grow Even More Menacing
One of those headlines that makes you go, “Wait, what?” until you switch to …
One of those headlines that makes you go, “Wait, what?” until you switch to the right context.
“To Stop Transformers From Exploding, Make Their Tanks Flexible”
I mean, alternatively you could get someone other than Michael Bay to direct them….
An interesting read comparing the rhetoric of the “reasonable” right to the rhetoric of the pre-Civil War South.
An interesting read comparing the rhetoric of the “reasonable” right to the rhetoric of the pre-Civil War South.
“Despite substantial improvements in mobile UX over the past decade, people still tend to do …
“Despite substantial improvements in mobile UX over the past decade, people still tend to do their most important online activities on larger screens.”
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/large-devices-important-tasks/
– via @NNgroup
Link: Electric Boats Could Be Floating Batteries for Island Microgrids
Electric Boats Could Be Floating Batteries for Island Microgrids
Researchers in Australia have developed a control algorithm that allows electric boats equipped with solar panels to sell power to a microgrid
Sooner or later, the shark gets jumped
Link: Column: CEOs say they care about customers and workers. Propaganda experts are unimpressed
Link: Column: CEOs say they care about customers and workers. Propaganda experts are unimpressed.
Link: Editorial: Trump’s new plan to incarcerate migrant families isn’t just cruel, it’s unjustifiable
Link: Editorial: Trump’s new plan to incarcerate migrant families isn’t just cruel, it’s unjustifiable
Link: New plastic pollution formed by fire looks like rocks
Link: New plastic pollution formed by fire looks like rocks
Virologists have reconstructed the genome of an HIV sample preserved since 1966…
Virologists have reconstructed the genome of an HIV sample preserved since 1966, long before the virus was discovered. Comparing it to modern strains has helped fill in the history of the virus, which appears to have jumped to humans around 1900-1920.
I’m guessing these California wine growers being hurt by Trump’s trade war aren’t going to get the same government handout that midwest farmers are to make up for the damage. Link: The latest casualty of Trump’s trade war with China? California wine
I’m guessing these California wine growers being hurt by Trump’s trade war aren’t going to get the same government handout that midwest farmers are to make up for the damage.
Link: The latest casualty of Trump’s trade war with China? California wine
Gee, you think?
Gee, you think?
Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations
Man wearing TV on head caught on camera leaving old TVs on Virginia front porches
I think the headline says it all: “Dropbox had to evacuate its headquarters when an …
I think the headline says it all: “Dropbox had to evacuate its headquarters when an electric scooter caught fire”
Link: Court upholds ruling that children held at border have adequate food, bedding, sanitation
Link: Court upholds ruling that children held at border have adequate food, bedding, sanitation
Well-titled article on the incredibly cryptic (and still unexplained) VoynichManuscript: “Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this?”
Well-titled article on the incredibly cryptic (and still unexplained) #VoynichManuscript:
“Why do people keep convincing themselves they’ve solved this medieval mystery?”
Damn. “We have our own mass murder problem, and we can ill afford to indulge in wistful or lurid looks back to a time when senseless mass killing was so rare that we could remember the names of the killers.”
Damn. “We have our own mass murder problem, and we can ill afford to indulge in wistful or lurid looks back to a time when senseless mass killing was so rare that we could remember the names of the killers.”
Apparently their neighbors reported them for renting it out as Airbnb or similar (which the …
Apparently their neighbors reported them for renting it out as Airbnb or similar (which the city doesn’t allow). Then they painted the house bright pink with giant 😜 and 🤐 emoji on it. Now the neighbors are complaining about the mural, but the city says it’s on private property 🤷♂️
Honestly I’m surprised – it sounds like the kind of area that would mandate specific shades of beige paint.
(LA Times, paywall)
‘Emoji house’ feud erupts as frustrated residents urge Manhattan Beach to take action.
#EmojiHouse #weird #LosAngeles #California
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(conversation includes link to The Guardian article) It made international headlines?
@OldBrushNewPaper It made international headlines?
Oh, of course it did. It’s a weird story with emoji. 🤦♂️ 😂
@OldBrushNewPaper It’s not really the kind of area where people would respond with better murals, though. I could see that happening in neighboring Hermosa Beach, but Manhattan Beach is…how should I say this…stuffier?
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Wow, I should have gone looking for the Easy Reader to begin with. (It’s one of the two local papers in the area.) The owner comes off a *lot* worse with the additional background of how she allegedly treated the last long-term tenants.
The Emoji House war: A neighborhood feud erupts in El Porto
Susan Wieland had been away for a work conference since the end of May, but neighbors sent her the photo. Even so, upon returning to her home in the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach on the night of June 8, she wept when she actually saw her neighbor’s house. The house, a two-level…– Easy Reader News
