NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.
Engineers are currently trying to solve the issue as the aging spacecraft explores uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the solar system.
Ironically for a technology that’s designed to bring people closer together, spending too much time engaging with social media can actually make you feel more lonely and isolated—and exacerbate mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
Suspend a line of hammocks high above a canyon and rent them out to sleepy daredevils? Sure, why not? No way, fuck that noise. You couldn’t pay me enough in this lifetime or the next! Apparently, this is like a waystation and all these people are on their way higher and higher… 😂
« After 50 years of bloodshed it seems apparent that Hamas has learned nothing. Both the international community and the state of Israel will now respond to your terror – potentially in kind – only we prefer to call it termination. You WILL die. »
In an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the star of The Terminator franchise said, “I kind of smile because every day I do look in a mirror and I say, ‘Yep, you suck.
Look at this body. Look at the [pectoral] muscles that used to be firm and perky and really powerful. Now they’re just hanging there.’ I mean, what the hell is going on here?”
Sleeping next to your phone can have an impact on your health. (Photo Getty Images)
We know that there can be impacts on your mental health if you scroll through your phone too much during the day. But could where you lay your phone to rest at night affect your health too?
It couldn’t come at a better time, as COVID infection rates have been sharply on the rise since August thanks to the new Eris variant. While immunologists agree that it’s important to get the new COVID-19 booster, it shouldn’t be your only means of protection from the virus, especially with the rates spiking at the beginning of autumn and ahead of the holidays.
I’m an Apple whore. Head over heels with the fact all my shit just works automatically. Woke up to a “sleep report” for the first time. Apparently alcohol works!
Guns are deeply ingrained in American society and that nation’s political debates.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives Americans the right to bear arms, and about a third of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun. At the same time, President Joe Biden and other policymakers earlier this year proposed new restrictions on firearm access in an effort to address gun violence ranging from rising murder rates in some major cities to mass shootings.
Archaeologists are too scared to open up the 2,200-year-old tomb of China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang because they fear it might harbor deadly booby traps.
Archaeologists worry that the tomb of China’s first emperor contains deadly booby traps.
An ancient Chinese historian wrote that the tomb is filled with mercury and crossbows ready to fire.
A 2020 study found that mercury concentrations around the tomb are higher than to be expected.
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered ( moved, seconded carried and minuted ) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices"
-- C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
from The Screwtape Letters
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-- Oscar Wilde
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-CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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-- Steve Jobs
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-- Edgar Cayce
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-- Mahatma Gandhi
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On 06/25/71 she was found with a bullet in her head.
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-- Charles C. Noble
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