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Wizards of the Coast sends Pinkerton agents after YouTuber who unboxed a leaked Magic: The Gathering card set – Boing Boing
- Wizards of the Coast sends Pinkerton agents after YouTuber who unboxed a leaked Magic: The Gathering card set Boing Boing
- Magic ‘Raid’ Wasn’t the First Time Wizards of the Coast Hired Pinkertons Gizmodo
- Wizards Of The Coast Has Reportedly Used Pinkertons Multiple Times TheGamer
- Magic: The Gathering Fan: Pinkertons Threatened Jail Over Cards Kotaku
- Wizards Of The Coast Reportedly Threatens Jail Time Against Player Who Was Accidentally But Legally Sold Upcoming Magic: The Gathering Set Ahead Of Official Street Date Bounding Into Comics
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Scientists discover that fungi can effectively break down plastic – Boing Boing
- Scientists discover that fungi can effectively break down plastic Boing Boing
- Australian scientists discover plastic-eating fungi Insider
- Plastic-eating backyard fungi discovery boosts hopes for a solution to the recycling crisis ABC News
- Australian scientists say they have discovered a backyard mold that can break down plastic in 140 days — giving hope to the recycling crisis Yahoo News
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Crypto scammer shifts to scamming insurance in the struggle to pay for his legal defense – Boing Boing
- Crypto scammer shifts to scamming insurance in the struggle to pay for his legal defense Boing Boing
- Sam Bankman-Fried using millions sent to Stanford dad to pay for lawyers: report The Mercury News
- FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to New Charges, Including Bribery of Chinese Officials: Report The Daily Hodl
- SBF Bribery Charge Brings New Legal Headaches to FTX Bloomberg
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a bizarre brain condition where your perception of the world is wayyyy off – Boing Boing
- Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a bizarre brain condition where your perception of the world is wayyyy off Boing Boing
- Alice in Wonderland syndrome: From seeing people with dragon faces to objects moving too slow or too fast, here’s all about it | The Times of India timesofindia.com
- Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: A Not so Popular Disorder The Epoch Times
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Scientists invent first “Vagina-on-a-Chip” | Boing Boing
Harvard bioengineers have invented the first “Vagina-on-a-Chip.” The inch-long device contains living human vaginal tissue and a microfluidic system to deliver a flow of “estrogen-carrying material.” The aim is to test new drugs for treating bacterial vaginosis, a common infection caused by an imbalance of certain bacteria in the vagina. The condition can increase the chance of getting a sexually transmitted disease and cause pregnant people to deliver prematurely. “From Scientific American:
Vaginal health is difficult to study in a laboratory setting partly because laboratory animals have “totally different microbiomes” than humans do, says Don Ingber, a bioengineer at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering[…]
So-called organs-on-a-chip mimic real bodily function, making it easier to study diseases and test drugs. Previous examples include models of the lungs and the intestines. In this case, the tissue acts like that of a real vagina in some important ways. It even responds to changes in estrogen by adjusting the expression of certain genes. And it can grow a humanlike microbiome dominated by “good” or “bad” bacteria.
“Vaginal microbiome-host interactions modeled in a human vagina-on-a-chip” (Microbiome)
New dinosaur species identified thanks to its giant nose
We can’t choose how we’ll be remembered long after we’re gone. This is as apparently true for dinosaurs as it is for humans if we go by the recent discovery of a new species of prehistoric beast whose legacy is a bunch of hairless apes giggling over the fact that it had an absolutely enormous nose.
Brighstoneus simmondsi was an herbivore that weighed roughly 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) and was around eight meters (26 feet) long. These details, however, are uninteresting in comparison to its distinguishing feature: A face that The Guardian describes as being defined by its “extremely large nose.”
The dinosaur was discovered by Jeremy Lockwood, a retired GP who’s currently working toward a PhD at the University Of Portsmouth. Lockwood was cataloguing iguanodon bones excavated on the Isle Of Wight when “he discovered a specimen with a unique ‘bulbous’ nasal bone.”
Intrigued by this big old honker, Lockwood got to work reconstructing its owner’s skull and found that the animal was not a previously identified species but a new one altogether.
“The number of teeth was a sign,” Lockwood said. “It also had a bulbous nose, whereas the other species have very straight noses.”
A video from the BBC centers on this anatomical feature, too, introducing Brighstoneus by showing a sketch of its goofy face and narrating: “Gnarled, knobbly, and what a nose. This is how the not-very-dainty dino would’ve looked like. And the USP of this VIP? Its bulbous snout.”
In a show of incredible restraint, Lockwood and his colleagues named the species Brighstoneus simmondsi in tribute to the village it was found near (Brighstone) and Keith Simmonds, “an amateur collector” who helped excavate its bones back in the ‘70s. This may not be a very exciting name for the long-extinct dinosaur but it’s far more dignified than just calling the creature Schnozosaurus justlookatthatthingacus.
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Bask in the natural glory of a deer running into a garage door
With the arrival of spring, the world is beginning to wake up once again. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and deer are tearing ass into driveways in order to slam headfirst into garage doors.
This last, wondrous demonstration of the season’s general feeling of optimism and joy was captured on video by YouTube channel ssnapier through footage so breathtaking we can almost hear David Attenborough’s narration as it plays. For a few seconds we just see a driveway and some motion in the sun-bleached stretch of road at the edge of the camera’s frame. Then a deer comes barreling into view on an apparent mission to throw itself into the garage door as hard as possible. The natural majesty of the herd animal is in full effect as it whacks against the door with a distorted crash just before a few more deer follow, skidding on the pavement, flopping all over each other, then taking back off to who-knows-where, their objective complete.
There’s silence for a moment before a man’s voice is heard from inside the house shouting at a dog to calm down then exclaiming, with perfect comedic timing: “What the fuck?”
Clearly, he’s overcome with the beauty of what he’s just been lucky enough to witness: A ballet choreographed by nature and performed with mysterious grace by planet Earth’s beautiful children.
Some people in the video’s comments suggest that the deer couldn’t see where they were going because the sun was too bright and the garage door was painted a light color. This seems very possible, but we also know that it’s just as important to take the natural world’s unpredictable artistry on its own terms as it is to try to explain it with scientific rationale. What weight does a description of a rainbow hold next to seeing one with your own eyes? Does knowing the evolutionary reasons for a cardinal’s bright red feathers help the bird appear any more stunning? No. And the same applies to this other remarkable display of an animal’s spectacular, soul-stirring drive to crash against a stationary object at full speed.
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