Month: May 2025

Electricity powers our homes, but it’s not without its potential hazards. Maintaining electrical safety in your home should never be an afterthought—it’s something you should actively prioritize. Unfortunately, many of us only realize the importance of electrical safety after an incident occurs in our homes. Knowing what goes into electrical safety and using a little
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Brains preserved for hundreds of years can contain intact proteins Alexandra Morton-Hayward It is now possible to obtain proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains. The new method could reveal details of human history and prehistory, and of evolutionary history, that were previously impossible to know. That includes what animals ate, the microbes they had
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Readers Discover AI Prompt in Novel Between that Chicago-Sun Times story and this one about an author who left an AI prompt in her romantasy novel, AI use is getting as messy as we thought
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Love or hate them, leaf blowers are undeniably effective: They have have transformed the chore of clearing leaves off your property from a back-straining misery into a (very noisy) stroll across it. And while it’s true that old-school gas-powered leaf blowers have been maligned as loud, polluting scourges, these days you can get a clean,
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All of these strange-looking dice can produce a desired probability distribution Keenan Crane Gamers everywhere, rejoice: researchers have discovered that it is possible to transform any shape – from dragons to kittens – into a fair die, making it suitable for playing games that rely on random outcomes. “We started from the idea of: ‘If
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To say 9-1-1 Season 8 is a frustrating season of television is an understatement. The second half of the season outpaced the first in quality and consistency, but it wasn’t enough to stick the landing in the finale. The season is full of ideas, and it doesn’t know what to do with them, like Eddie’s
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Ravyn Lenae has announced her second tour in as many years. This autumn, the Chicago R&B artist will perform across the U.S., U.K., and Europe. The run of dates kicks off October 6 at Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre, and will wrap up exactly a month later in Cologne, Germany. Lenae shared her sophomore album Bird’s
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