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LIDAR Mayans

This is a BFD: Turns out Mayans had tens of thousands more structures than we thought, with millions more people living in the Yucatan a thousand years ago than originally...

iPhone XS

I'm not excited about getting a new iPhone, but then the new XS camera seems amazing. This brief video, shot by "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu with a...

Dropped Letters

Proving that English is a mashed up amalgam of many languages, it turns out there's a few letters that have been dropped from the alphabet over the centuries. Here's a...

Sperm Donor

One (kinda) anonymous sperm donor is responsible for 44 children. One of those children is trying to meet all of her biological siblings. A beautiful story.

Cessna O’Hare

These two amateur Cessna pilots decided to fly into O'Hare Airport and record it. Their diligence and attention to detail is a tribute to amateurism. It doesn't have to be...

Just A Shell

[caption id="attachment_200" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Lou Fourcher, at Loyola Beach in Chicago, June 2012.[/caption] It begins one of two ways, either a call to your cell marked “No Caller ID”, or...

VV Closes

The grandaddy of them all, the Village Voice alt-newspaper, is closing. Anyone paying attention to media, except alt-paper owners apparently, would have seen this coming.