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🤦 AchievementFor 35 years, Jim Woodring's character Frank has wandered the hallucinatory landscape of the Unifactor without saying a word. Readers interpreted the allegories on their own. Now Frank has a voice. Quacky , out August 11 from Fantagraphics , is a prose-and-pictures story built…
🐾 AnimalsWriter decks usually have e-ink displays, which are nice to read and easy on batteries. But they're mostly monochrome and sometimes sluggish. Enter Bee Write Back , a distraction-free writing machiner with an OLED display. Colors! Rich, deep blacks! And a cute bee logo. Read the…
🔬 ScienceSwap one letter in a girl mouse's DNA and she grows testes. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel edited a small stretch of what scientists used to call "junk DNA," the vast majority of the genome that doesn't build proteins but tells other genes when to turn on or off.…
🤦 AchievementAnyone who went through a John Deere dealer for major equipment repairs since January 2018 is in line to collect. The company will put $99 million into a class action settlement fund, with plaintiffs recovering 26% to 53% of overcharge damages — well above the typical 5% to 15%…
🔬 ScienceJohn Carreyrou — the journalist who broke the Theranos story — spent 18 months trying to identify Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator. His conclusion, published in the New York Times this week: Adam Back, 55, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the…
🤦 AchievementA.J. Jacobs has a revision of the old thousand-mile proverb. The journey doesn't start with a step — it starts, he writes, with "putting on your left sock." When it comes to outwitting procrastination, I try to make that first action as easy as possible. Read the rest The post…
The Princess Mishawaka statue and plaque in Mishawaka, Indiana is a tribute to the legend of a Shawnee Indian maiden, Mishawaka, daughter of Chief Elkhart. There are different versions of Mishawaka's life and a question of whether she was even real. The plaque tells the story…