Singapore's National Library Board wants to pay people to read.

The goal is to help people build a daily reading habit by giving them 20 virtual coins if they read 15 minutes a day and log the session on a government website. — Read the rest

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Last week, we shared news of allegations that Colorado's hands-on congressperson Lauren Boebert was involved in yet another scandal. Both she and one of the three named staffers she was supposedly involved with have denied it.

Boebert calls the accusations "filthy garbage," and she is the expert. — Read the rest

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Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco say that recent experiments with mice reveal that their brains are actually two different organs. They extended this finding to human brains. One brain consists of the midbrain and forebrain, which control language and reasoning and are the seat of consciousness, while the hindbrain runs sleep, breathing, hunger, and heartbeat. — Read the rest

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Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco say that recent experiments with mice reveal that their brains are actually two different organs. They extended this finding to human brains. One brain consists of the midbrain and forebrain, which control language and reasoning and are the seat of consciousness, while the hindbrain runs sleep, breathing, hunger, and heartbeat. — Read the rest

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Rarely is a "trivia about a movie you love" video worth the watch, but this one is packed with awesome stories about Dino De Laurentiis' Flash Gordon.

Brian Blessed's Hawkman remains one of the best characters ever to take to the skies. — Read the rest

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SquachWatch is an open-source ESP32 firmware project that turns a cheap touchscreen board into a portable detector for trackers, cameras, Flock readers, and other wireless devices that plague us.

The CheapYellow Display is already a ridiculously cool piece of hardware that makes you wonder how a cheap handheld device like this can cost under $20 shipped. — Read the rest

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Two sea lions have been found decapitated, roughly 100 miles apart. One in San Francisco and the other in Pacific Grove.

It appears someone took home the head of a dead sea lion that washed up on San Francisco's Ocean Beach; they left the rest. — Read the rest

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A couple of years ago, the Pokémon Company clarified that Poké Balls are not tiny pocket monster prisons, but rather like a "high-end suite room in a fancy hotel." Japanese company NOT A HOTEL is a sort of high-end timeshare/fractional ownership company specializing in unique architecture and picturesque locations. — Read the rest

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A month ago, a "Time Warp" parody would have been an easy tribute to Tim Curry. However, Britain's new Patriot Platform has been sending groups of masked, black-clad anti-immigration "activists" into the streets. Hundreds of these bigots blockaded Dover, demonstrators confronted the RNLI in Portsmouth, and the group's leader later marched masked followers into the Daily Mail's offices. — Read the rest

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I am certain I was not the only person disappointed to find out that one of the largest and most dangerous animals on earth had not actually developed a taste for cocaine.

This fantastic video on Colombia's troubling case of cocaine hippopotami is well worth the watch. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Edit PDFs with ease for 60% off with IndyPDF Editor & Converter for just $19.99 (Reg. $49.99).

When people say "AI is the new PDF," I respond: I hope not. For all the convenience of a PDF, navigating these tricky files also comes with a monumental amount of stress. — Read the rest

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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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TL;DR: Make your ChatGPT copy sound like you, not AI, with a lifetime subscription to UmanWrite All-in-One AI Writing Platform's unlimited plan for $79.00, a 95% discount on the $1,799 regular price.

Most AI models are great at generating text, but text that sounds like a human wrote it? — 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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