Jun 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The Oldest Plague Outbreak in History Discovered in Siberia: Marmots Transmitted the Bacteria to Hunter-Gatherers 5,500 Years Ago An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the genome of ancestral strains of Yersinia pestis from human remains found in four hunter-gatherer cemeteries located in the Lake Ba...
Jun 17, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog From Size Class to Available Space: Is horizontalSizeClass Still Reliable? Starting with WWDC 26, when an iPhone app is mirrored to a Mac through iPhone Mirroring, its window can be freely resized. At the same time, iPhone-only apps running on iPad will also enter a resiz...
Jun 17, 2026 from BEEW Father's Day Is Cringe (A Father's Rant) Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time NBA champion. A Basketball Hall of Famer. An inveterate winner whose high...
Jun 17, 2026 from Kev Quirk đź“ť 2026-06-17 13:56: So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife... So you know how we have the incubator setup? Well, unbeknownst to me, my wife gave one of our broody hens a cluch of Guinea fowl eggs to sit on a month ago. She just sent me this... Thanks for read...
Jun 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Canons on Responsibility, Part 2 The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and eliminating heresy. Part of Church reform was making clear the d...
Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fa...
Jun 17, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist Cancer falsehoods and rumors are killing people False hope, online incentive structures, and broken trust make cancer misinformation so hard to stop.
Jun 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen True Horror Subgenres In the last entry in this series, we defined True Horror genetically. Here we look at its children. Basic genre hybrids like Scifi Horror are out of scope. Something needs to be set down in writing...
Jun 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Padromal Storms Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight ...
Jun 16, 2026 from Above the Law Blanche Is In Hot Water — See Also Cold Truth Coming From The NYT: Their editorial board says Todd Blanche isn't fit for office. Honestly, Nevermind: DOJ lawyer still gets hit with ethics complaint for trying to capitalize off the f...
Jun 16, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Putin’s PRC Visit Failed to Advance Power of Siberia 2 John C. K. Daly
Jun 16, 2026 from Hackaday Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as …read more
Jun 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com This Payment Method Has A Checkered Past Read This Payment Method Has A Checkered Past Cashier: "We don't accept cheques. You can pay with a card or cash, Swiss francs or Euros." Customer: "But why isn't it marked somewhere?" Cashier: "We...
Jun 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy The Coroner "Kept Several Skulls as Trophies from the Deceased He Examined" A very short excerpt from yesterday's Seventh Circuit opinion in Betts v. Boone County, written by Chief Judge Michael Brennan… The post The Coroner "Kept Several Skulls as Trophies from the Deceas...
Jun 16, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Firefox’s free VPN lifts data limit, offers 28 server locations “You can now use1 Firefox’s free built-in VPN without a monthly data limit – but only until August 31, 2026. Mozilla is also temporarily expanding the list of VPN server locations available to prox...
Jun 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 June 2026 Out Like Flynn Edition Top Story The Flynn Effect is a long-observed but unexplained finding in psychology that mean IQ even in developed nations has been rising by around 3 points per decade. That...
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Jun 16, 2026 from It's FOSS Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses This eye-controlled smart glass is a San Francisco-based startup's bet on ambient computing.
