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Jul 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Blood Recipes

We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses in medieval cuisine. Today we actually make som e recipes using blood. (For the ...

Jul 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Read My husband, his parents and I are on a trip across Europe. We stop at a restaurant, have a wonderful meal, pay and leave. My mother in law asks for the receipt from my husband because she thou...

Jul 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: July 18, 1942

7/18/1942: Justice George Sutherland dies. The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 18, 1942 appeared first on Reason.com.

Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday

Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast

Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted …rea...

Jul 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Textile Fragment from the Iron Age Found at the Submerged Site of the Gran Carro of Bolsena After Sixty Years of Searching

The waters of Lake Bolsena, in the Italian province of Viterbo, continue to yield unprecedented evidence of protohistoric life in southern Etruria. The team led by the Underwater Archaeology Servic...

Jul 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health

“The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you h...

Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Apple Music and Apple One subscription prices rise due to licensing costs

Apple has raised Apple Music subscription prices in the United States and several other countries, citing rising music licensing costs. The Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up by $1, whi...

Jul 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan’s ultracompact kei car taxis are now ready for travelers to ride, if you know where to find them

Shift in government policy allows Japan’s smallest cars to address a big problem for the taxi industy. Though Japan has a famously convenient rail network, there are times when the route and timing...

Jul 18, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVa: Leadership

This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies a...

Jul 18, 2026 from It's FOSS

Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions

Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.

Jul 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026

Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register) Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, b...

Jul 17, 2026 from Above the Law

DOJ Remains Dullest Tools In The Shed — See Also

The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head. House Oversight Caught With Their Pants Down: Alan "Underpants" Dershowitz cancels Monda...

Jul 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Flat Out Confused

Read Flat Out Confused Customer: "Okay, but what would I do with the screwdriver when I'm done with it?" Me: "…Put it away?" Customer: "Could I just rent one from your tool rental center?" Read Fla...

Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday

How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart

A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of o...

Jul 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Site Linking to Abortion-Pill-Selling Websites Likely Protected by First Amendment, Even in States That Generally Ban Abortions

Mayday Health runs a website that provides various information about abortion pills. South Dakota law provides, in relevant part, No… The post Site Linking to Abortion-Pill-Selling Websites Likely ...

Jul 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger

“Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost half of U.S. adults who live with high blood pressure. The new wearable is thicke...

Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google's NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, with expanded code execution & cross-app sync

Google has renamed its AI research and note-taking tool, NotebookLM, to Gemini Notebook. This updated identity marks a shift toward deeper integration across the Google ecosystem. Gemini Notebook r...

Jul 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026

Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware) I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona ap...

Jul 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Broken Bench in Red Hook, Brooklyn

At the request of (or under orders from) a friend, I documented a broken park bench in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Jul 17, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Strategic Snapshot: Russian Oil Woes Reinforce Economic Troubles

Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to come home as Kyiv increases its strikes against Russian oil infrastructure.