Where Are They Now? Can you guess which former game industry personalities ended up on Law & Order, 30 Rock, and the Food Network? By Ray Barnholt Video games are an interesting field for a ton of reasons. One would be that we sometimes remember people associated with games even more than the people who ...
Scientists at a Chinese university said Monday they can use rice to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shock and liver disease. When extracted from rice seeds, the protein is “physically and chemically equivalent to blood-derived human serum albumin (HSA),” said the research in the ...
Have Google watchers been overestimating the number of servers in the company’s data center network? Recent guesstimates have placed Google’s server count at more than 1 million. But new data on Google’s energy use suggests that the company is probably running about 900,000 servers. Google never says how many servers are running in its data ...
Long Read, but worth it if you into whales n shit. -AC On a routine expedition in 1987, oceanographers in the submersible Alvin were mapping the typically barren, nutrient-poor seafloor in the Santa Catalina Basin, off the shore of southern California. On the final dive of the trip, the scanning sonar detected a large object ...
A garlanded picture of a young woman stares out into the emptiness of an abandoned house. The small building in India’s south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh was once home to a family of four. But everything changed the evening that Laxmi Narayan found his 20-year-old daughter, Monica, on fire. Unable to cope with the grief, ...
EAGLE RIVER – Police say a man wearing a “Jason” mask is causing problems in Eagle River Thursday, forcing a school lockdown at Northland Pines and scaring people around town. Hospital workers called the Vilas County Sheriff’s Department shortly after 11:30 a.m. to report a man wearing torn blue jeans and a torn shirt, with ...
Dope New Singer Michael Francis shout out to ThisisRnB.com for the heads up. Artist Website
A Westmoreland County boy whose lungs were damaged after smoking artificial marijuana died this morning. Tonya Rice of Tarrs said her son, Brandon, was a “fighter, a real fighter.” The 13-year-old Southmoreland eighth-grader lost the fight for his life at 8:21 a.m. today in UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, his mother said. Brandon had a ...
The tree grows at 2,900–3,000 m (9,500–9,800 ft) above sea level in the “Methuselah Grove” in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest within the Inyo National Forest. Methuselah’s exact location is undisclosed as a protection against vandalism. PRODUCT PAGE
..A Toronto man went for a bathroom break and ended up with a bathroom snake on Tuesday night. Ramdat Punwassie lifted his toilet lid at about 10 p.m. Tuesday to find a one-metre-long python coiled up inside the bowl and looking back at him. A native of Guyana, Punwassie has seen his share of big ...
Five Yorkshire terriers, including four puppies offered for sale, were dognapped at gunpoint from a Koreatown home. The home-invasion robbery was captured on video by the family’s home security system. Detectives released the tapein hopes of apprehending the two robbers, who got away with puppies valued at $2,500 each and the family’s grown Yorkie, Tang-ja, ...
#6. Aokigahara Forest Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to [rip]. How many ...
New 60 Minutes explains how Jobs Delayed Cancer treatment hoping to be cured by “Magical Thinking”