Posts tagged “Wirecutter”

• Evidence is accumulating that the shingles vaccine also protects against Alzheimer’s disease and can slow biological aging. – via The Progress Network
• Mr. Math Blog is a great tool to keep in your back pocket if you have an elementary school student learning algebra.
• Reasons To Watch The Martian For The 47th Time, Ranked – via Lauren
• I highly recommend Night Thoughts, the new stand-up special from Kumail Nanjiani on Hulu.
• The Wirecutter published a quick and easy overview about keeping your text messages secure.
• Wil Wheaton on losing Rob Reiner
• Oh, man. RIP to one of my favorites: Catherine O’Hara – via TMZ
• For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish:

• America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
• An unidentified man dressed as Batman angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials for allowing ICE to operate at the upcoming Super Bowl in the city. – via What a Day
• He reached to grab a toddler he said he thought was falling. Then he spent weeks in jail before the case was thrown out.
• ICE Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker. – via @gregsargent

• On The (Apocryphal?) Rules of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Cartoons – via kottke, natch
• With the possible – possible – exception of Sonny Corleone‘s toll booth scene, I cannot think of anything in the universe that wouldn’t be dramatically improved by adding a college marching band.
• Netflix is developing a reality television series based on the classic board game Monopoly. Fingers crossed that the producers convey that the only realistic way to win the game is to hoard all the money and property, causing everyone else to eventually quit in despair and destitution, and that unfettered capitalism is actually terrible for any species. – via The Dailies
• Good news! AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
• A federal judge ruled former Florida QB signee Jaden Rashada can proceed with his lawsuit against Gators football coach Billy Napier over a $13M NIL deal gone wrong.
• There are actually a few cool items in this Wirecutter article: 18 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do
• Instagram users under 16 will no longer be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages without parental approval. This seems like something that should have already been the policy, but I guess I’ll take the win. – via me
• Why don’t we remember being a baby? Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem.
• When Is This Going to Stop?
  • POTUS signs executive orders to… boost coal production.
  • China slams Vance for ‘peasants’ slur as tariff war intensifies – via thebasement.nz
  • WTF? Administration orders half of national forests open for logging – via moudhy.bsky.social
  • 20 Rude Questions the Media Should Ask – via markjacob.bsky.social
  • Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Looms