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Recent headlines from BoingBoing include: "A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only $70 for life"; "The glowing light bulb discovered by accident in 1675"; "Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live"; "RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground"; "Turkmenistan's "Gates of Hell" crater is finally going out after 54 years". We track 277 articles from this source.

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A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only $70 for life — TL;DR: Headway is a mobile app that condenses fiction and non-fiction books into quick summaries, and it's only 70 for life.
The glowing light bulb discovered by accident in 1675 — Long before Edison, a working light source turned up by accident.
Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live — When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank.
RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground — RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground that nobody walking across them had noticed: two long ston...
Turkmenistan's "Gates of Hell" crater is finally going out after 54 years — The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert — 60 to 70 meters across, 30 meters deep, and burning since 1971 — earned the nickname Door to Hell t...

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A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only $70 for life

TL;DR: Headway is a mobile app that condenses fiction and non-fiction books into quick summaries, and it's only 70 for life. There just isn't enough time in the day to sit down for hours at a time and read a book, only to find out you didn't even get anything out of it. — Read the rest The post A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only 70 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The glowing light bulb discovered by accident in 1675

Long before Edison, a working light source turned up by accident. In 1675, the French astronomer Jean Picard noticed that the mercury in his barometer glowed as he carried it across a dark room. The faint light, later called barometric light, drew the interest of some of the era's biggest scientific names before the trick faded into obscurity. — Read the rest The post The glowing light bulb discovered by accident in 1675 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live

When you open a credit card, you probably expect your home address expecting it to stay with your bank. According to 404 Media, it doesn't — the address travels through a chain of data brokers and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which can search it without a warrant. — Read the rest The post Open a credit card, and ICE learns where you live appeared first on Boing Boing.

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RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground

RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground that nobody walking across them had noticed: two long stone walls converging into an enclosure, with a tail. Group Captain Lionel Rees said they looked like toy kites, and the name stuck. — Read the rest The post RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Turkmenistan's "Gates of Hell" crater is finally going out after 54 years

The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert — 60 to 70 meters across, 30 meters deep, and burning since 1971 — earned the nickname Door to Hell thanks to its hundreds of natural gas fires covering its floor and rim, visible for miles across the desert night. — Read the rest The post Turkmenistan's Gates of Hell crater is finally going out after 54 years appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Why walking poles held behind you burn 20% more calories

Michael Ham, retired in British Columbia, listed his walking poles in the Cool Tools newsletter What's in my NOW? and he wants you to know they are nothing like trekking poles. You hold a trekking pole out in front with a bent arm, and they mostly help you keep your balance on a steep climb. — Read the rest The post Why walking poles held behind you burn 20 more calories appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The person who'd use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag

Some people would happily wreck your 1,000 suit to mop up a spill, because the small amount of utility it beats the hurt it causes you. Writing on the blog Atoms vs Bits, Uri uses that as the bottom of a scale — how much weight a person gives your wellbeing next to their own. — Read the rest The post The person who'd use your 1,000 suit as a floor rag appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen

Neal Stephenson writes his novels the way people did in 1850. The science-fiction author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the thousand-page Baroque Cycle has composed nearly every book since about 2001 with a fountain pen on paper. On his Substack, Graphomane, he says the handwritten manuscript for The Baroque Cycle stood 42 inches high and was displayed at the Science Fiction museum in Seattle. — Read the rest The post Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen appeared first on Boing Boing.

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U.S. Army finds out unlimited isn't

The Uncle Sam's Army handed millions of employees unlimited AI tokens, urged them to use more, and was shocked when they did. Reportedly, the Big Green Machine bought an annual package containing 100 million tokens and encouraged workers to lean into generative AI, even sending out reminders to use the service. — Read the rest The post U.S. Army finds out unlimited isn't appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Grandpa Pudding Brains tells grieving parents they can ride on his cool plane

The Orange Menace offered a fallen service member's grieving family a ride on his special Air Force One, and proudly reported their response: They said wow. What Trump remembers about a family in mourning is that they like his plane. There is no human tragedy so large that Trump cannot crawl inside it and find a flattering anecdote about himself. — Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains tells grieving parents they can ride on his cool plane appeared first on Boing Boing.

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