“The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.” The CEO of the center: “That reminds me of Anne Frank.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Highguard game director Chad Grenier says a horse-racing mode could be on the horizon
Its old-timey twisting of pop tracks is one of my favourite ways a videogame has made use of licensed music.
Clive Davis confirmed the Oscar-winning actress' long-rumored casting during the record exec's annual pre-Grammys bash Saturday
When it comes to global warming and climate change, we often hear news stories about tipping points where Earth's systems shift into a new and dangerous state. One such may have been reached in the year 2000 that caused tropical weather cycles to have a greater effect on autumn
The attacks hitting a miners's bus in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia come as Ukraine's President announced trilateral peace talks in the UAE next week.
The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images from a ceiling surveillance camera of the basketball star Brittney Griner approaching the screening machinery in the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow and, a short time
KYIV, Feb 1 - Fifteen people were killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, energy firm DTEK and government officials said on Sunday.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said the 5-year-old detained in Minnesota alongside his father did not apply for asylum, bucking their attorney’s claims of legal residency in the United States. When asked if the two had a pending asylum case, Blanch said, “That
Last night, Cardi B made her return to SNL . The Bronx rapper was previously the musical guest was in 2018, performing the same week that her debut studio album Invasion Of Privacy was released. This time, there was no grand pregnancy announcement . But she did open with a
Ifunanya Nwangene, a former contestant in The Voice Nigeria, died after not getting the antivenom she needed.
In a study conducted by Dr. Mahdi Alirezazadeh and Dr. Hanan Bahranipoor, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, two exceptionally well-preserved fetal burials from Chaparabad, Iran, dating to the mid-5th millennium BC, were analyzed including burial L522.1, one of the
Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region in Southern Australia is experiencing a nine-month toxic algae bloom that spans thousands of miles and has caused thousands of deaths across marine
The blaze, likely from sparklers igniting foam, killed 41 and injured 116, mostly teenagers.
“Melania,” a documentary that shadows the first lady of the United States in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, is eclipsing box office expectations. The film has generated $7.04 million from 1,778 North American theaters, a huge start for a
Grounded 2's Toxic Tangle update adds a garter snake for transport, but it's a bit too realistic and would benefit from an accessibility toggle
More than 3 million Americans with pacemakers depend on these chemicals to live.
Death to the Gildan tees, I say.
It can always be tricky trying to figure out the perfect date for Valentine's Day. Luckily, OpenTable has found the answers for you, having officially named the 100 most romantic restaurants across the U.S.
Kaley Cuoco seems to have caught the international thriller bug. The actress followed up her decade-plus stint on “The Big Bang Theory” with two seasons of “The Flight Attendant,” the globe-trotting tale of an alcoholic aviation worker in over her head. Now, she stars in and
Seven others were reported injured in the strike on Sunday, according to preliminary information.
Ditches and canals are the underdog of the freshwater world. These human-made waterways are often forgotten, devalued, and perceived negatively—think "dull as ditchwater." But these unsung heroes have a hidden potential for climate change mitigation, if they're managed correctly.
A new study finds that Canada could remove at least five times its annual carbon emissions with strategic planting of more than six million trees along the northern edge of the boreal forest. The paper, "Substantial carbon removal capacity of Taiga reforestation and
In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons. So far, the Wigner crystal state remains sensitive to various experimental
A new full moon brings the second single from the singer's upcoming LP o/i
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that federal investigators are unable to investigate various tips the FBI received about President Trump’s alleged involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Blanche told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” that some tips were
Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his “Fuck ICE”/”No Kings” pieces available for free, high-res download . Print them out and use them for protest signs. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
When the brain rests, it usually replays recent experiences to strengthen memory. Scientists found that in Alzheimer’s-like mice, this replay still occurs — but the signals are jumbled and poorly coordinated. As a result, memory-supporting brain cells lose their stability, and
