Unlucky Round-up
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- Cleveland is giving away a free trip to witness the 2024 solar eclipse. Second prize? Two trips to Cleveland.
Stories
- This $11.8M Scottish Estate Will Turn You Into a Baron or Baroness.
- California landslide halts rail service, homes evacuated.
- Willie Nelson 90th birthday concert stars Snoop Dogg, Chris Stapleton.
Science
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- NASA Hacks Voyager 2 to Keep The 45-Year-Old Probe Studying Interstellar Space.
- Psychological Body Armor.
- Cats Get the Point of Pointing.
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Media
- Michael J. Fox on Parkinson's, and maintaining optimism. Thanks RedEye9.
- Harlan Ellison - Pay the Writer. Thanks The Flying Penguin.
- That Was Extremely Dodgy!- - Lucky People #6 (NSFW). Thanks VideoSift.
Creature Features
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KOMODO, international games publisher and distributor of the Steam Deck in Asia, is proud to announce bringing back the Golden Week Sale on Steam on April 29 with the help of partners across the gaming industry.
Working with many of the biggest names in Japanese video games, KOMODO has organized a massive sale to celebrate the series of four Japanese holidays that are known as Golden Week with the Golden Week Japanese Game Fest!
This second entry in the Pixel Pulps Anthology following paranormal investigator Lou Hill, Varney Lake finds him investigating the story of a supposed vampire encounter in 1954. Jimmy and Christine have murky memories of their childhood vacation where they claim to have met a vampire. Their friend Doug, who was with them, has long since gone missing. Lou Hill must follow the tracks of aged recollections to deduce macabre truths and discover Doug’s fate.Continue here to read the full story.
Get to the bottom of these mysteries by setting up camp and navigating the surrounding wilderness via choice-based gameplay seamlessly affecting a branching interactive fiction. Meet a neighboring vampire with a mysterious wound and carefully handle tense scenarios by solving accessible puzzles. Uncover the paranormal investigator’s veiled past in a dual-timeline story inspired by books with choices and branching narratives. Sink into a gripping tale of time and terror as the reality behind Doug’s disappearance comes to light.
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Celebratory Round-up
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- On the Road to Failure. "Presentations and pitch decks by the largest business failures and corporate frauds." Thanks Boing Boing.
- Diagnosing deception: How doctors solved a woman’s dramatically faked condition.
- 2023 hurricane season predictions released.
Story
- This NYC vegan dinner party requires you to have dinner naked. I don't want your meat anywhere near my veggies. Thanks Boing Boing.
Science
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- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in clouds- study. Abe Simpson was right!
- Cognitive flexibility is essential to navigating a changing world – new research in mice shows how your brain learns new rules.
- New nanoparticle source generates high-frequency light.
- Neuroeconomic framework provides insight into success and failure in smoking cessation.
Media
- How these impossibly thin cuts are made. Thanks RedEye9.
- Schoolboy steers school bus to safety after driver passes out. That's the kid you want next to you in the foxhole. Thanks Acleacius.
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