In 1973 a French journalist named Anne-France Dautheville became the first known woman to complete a motorcycle trip around the world all by herself. She was born in Paris in 1944 and began riding motorcycles in the late 1960s.

She rode over 20,000 miles through three different continents on a 125 cc Kawasaki. — Read the rest

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This cheat sheet shows you ways to store your fruit and vegetables that you might not have known about, and it is life-changing once you do. If you want your fruit and vegetables to last longer, then this is for you. — Read the rest

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This aluminum can compactor looks like a giant red robot monster, and I'm obsessed with it. Recycling is way more fun when you can feed it into the mouth of a giant creature that chomps it down. Art like this is awesome because it is interactive, fun to look at, and it helps the environment. — Read the rest

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How Many People Are In Space Right Now doesn't have a question mark, but it does give the answer: 10 humans, as of Friday, September 18, 2026, all on the International Space Station and Tiangong space station.

Aboard the ISS are Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Anil Menon of the U.S., — Read the rest

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My RTX 3090 is at a board-level repair shop, and I'm not going to spend the kind of money a modern, already two-year-old video card costs to replace it if it's dead. I threw GeForce Now on my 2017 Linux/Windows laptop, and it seems to work better than my 24Gb Nvidia monster card, even when it was working. — Read the rest

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Douglas Yao, a man claiming to have a degree in computational biology from Harvard, claims that he made a new schizophrenia drug that ChatGPT designed.

He said that he made it in a chemistry lab that he set up in his garage. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get the power of 50+ AI models in one app with AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan for just $39.99 (Reg. $499).

You've been told countless times how efficient your AI stack is supposed to make you. But if you feel like you spend too much time toggling through tools or plugging queries into multiple AI dashboards, then you need to rethink your stack. — Read the rest

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Here's a cool Kickstarter project featuring the comic book art of Denis Kitchen, an underground comics publishing legend, founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and agent for both Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. Kitchen is best known as the publisher of Kitchen Sink Press, but he is also a great cartoonist. — Read the rest

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As a Slow Horses fan, I know the series is based on a book series, but I didn't realize the producers were about to catch up with the existing library.

I keep meaning to borrow the first one and start reading Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House series. — Read the rest

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What will climate feel like in 60 years? shows the anticipated climate change for your town in 2086. Zoom into the world map, click a city, and it'll give you the weather report and link it to a place that has such a climate today, in 2026. — Read the rest

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This photo of a classic glass maple syrup bottle was posted on the Things for Ants subreddit. This page shares ant-sized objects. The creepy idea here is that the tiny glass handle is just the right size for some little ants to sit inside of and eat the sugar (ew!). — Read the rest

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Every time I think of this photo I saw on Reddit today, I start laughing. The photo shows an expectation vs. reality of a sleeping bag from Amazon. The photo in the advertisement shows a lifelike cat-themed sleeping bag that looks giant, fluffy and incredibly realistic. — Read the rest

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These photos show the stunning beauty of Saturn's north pole, which is shaped like a massive blue, swirling hexagon. This is definitely Saturn's fanciest detail. This six-sided jet stream pattern is called the Saturn Hexagon.

It is not a solid structure even though it looks like one from afar. — Read the rest

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This tasty cookie is made from plastic soda bottles and farm waste, like corn stalks and leaves. And it is 3D printed.

It's part of a NASA project to learn how to grow food in deep space, where there aren't many convenience stores, at least that we can tell. — Read the rest

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The very handsy congressperson is accused of conducting at least one multi-year affair and two other sexual relationships inside her office.

American Muckrakers accuses Boebert of having relationships with three senior employees, paying one of them a taxpayer-funded bonus allegedly tied to the relationship. — Read the rest

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Watermarking was supposed to make AI easier to identify; instead, it has made it easier for AI to jump the rails and escape its little box.

The system du jour intended to make AI safer and its use more accountable can apparently make it less safe. — Read the rest

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For over a hundred years, Denali's huskies have patrolled 1,000s of miles of wilderness. Hauling supplies through desperate conditions, these dogs are government employees who receive no paycheck. The Trump Administration doesn't want to pay for their caretakers.

The kennel program can't simply be paused during a funding shortfall and restarted when money becomes available, he said.

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A new species of wild cat has been identified in a Bolivian forest: The Tilcayo cat is in the genus Leopardus, a group of small cats native to the Americas, and is smaller than a domestic cat.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is fifteen years old. While it's undoubtedly one of the best games ever made, anything will start to wear thin after a decade and a half, except perhaps true love and/or illegal narcotics. With the sequel still nowhere to be seen outside of vague promises from Bethesda that it is a real game that's still being worked on, we swear, Skyrim's fans have had to get… creative to squeeze more enjoyment out of their favorite game. — Read the rest

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In 2019, Durham, North Carolina's Can Opener Bridge, formerly with 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance, was raised to 12 feet, 4 inches, reducing but not eliminating the entertaining and completely preventable shearing off of roofs and air conditioning units. — Read the rest

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M-Vave's FM-1, a tiny ~$70 clone of the legendary Yamaha DX7, is the "synth of the summer". It even has a built-in speaker, so you can play it on the go with its tiny rubbery keys. While it doesn't come with the original patch banks, they're easy to copy over, and it has superpowers that weren't around in the 1980s such as MIDI over USB-C and Bluetooth. — Read the rest

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Valve is said to be selling 12,000 Steam Machines a week (previously at Boing Boing), despite an indefinite waitlist and a much higher price than originally anticipated (not their fault). If you've got one, then, you'll be pleased to see iFixit's comprehensive repair guide—also interesting if you just want to see inside one. — Read the rest

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The Trump Administration has done an excellent job of hiding the damage Iranian drones and missiles have wrought on US bases across the Middle East.

The Pentagon's inspector general now says Iranian attacks damaged or destroyed hundreds of structures across eight countries. — Read the rest

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A dad named Dave said he got called into a meeting with his boss to explain the $118,000 bill on his company credit card.

The culprit was his 9-year-old son, who bought ads on YouTube to promote his Minecraft and Roblox videos. — Read the rest

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A 30-year-old Polish programmer, Pawel Szydlowski, built an app that sends an alert if someone nearby is using Meta's perv glasses.

Szydlowski bought several pairs of the stealth video glasses, which are a favorite tool for incels who like to record women they harass and then post to Meta's Instagram site. — Read the rest

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Long derided for putting just about anything on a pizza, California has two pizzerias in the world's top 5, according to the Italian culinary guide "Top 50 Pizza."

BBQ chicken pizza ain't so funny now, is it?

On Tuesday, Italy-based culinary guide 50 Top Pizza released its global rankings for 2026 — and three pizzerias with California ties scored spots in the top five.

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Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk ranted and raved that Grok would make a better, more "historically accurate" Odyssey than Christopher Nolan ever could, and held a contest to get others to do the work for him. His $100k grand prize winner has a three-eyed cyclops. — Read the rest

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I kind of like magic shows, but I really like finding out how magician's tricks are done. For me, it's almost all the fun. It's not in the magician's best interest to have their tricks revealed, and they have a code (among themselves) to keep their secrets secret. — Read the rest

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Maybe you learned that thousands of years ago, a now-extinct species of cheetah sped across the plains of North America. New genetic evidence shows that these animals weren't cheetahs, but were more closely related to American pumas. Paleontologists had been fooled by the animal's morphological similarity to African cheetahs, but it turns out that similarity was just an instance of convergent evolution. — Read the rest

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