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Deer sniffing a compost pile to get high. [more inside]
posted by blue shadows at 11:02 PM PST - 13 comments

Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same? - "In Boston labs, old, blind mice have regained their eyesight, developed smarter, younger brains and built healthier muscle and kidney tissue. On the flip side, young mice have prematurely aged, with devastating results to nearly every tissue in their bodies." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 10:56 PM PST - 47 comments

The trailer for Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret has dropped. Get your hankies Gen-xers!
posted by St. Peepsburg at 3:39 PM PST - 67 comments

Find That Meme, by Matthew Bryant provides full text search for memes.
How it’s made
h/t Today in Tabs, by rusty
posted by Going To Maine at 1:35 PM PST - 9 comments

.. but in Antarctica! This is the premise of brr.fyi ⛄, a cool little blog written by an IT worker who is currently at the South Pole. [more inside]
posted by Superilla at 12:45 PM PST - 26 comments

Woodworker Olivier Gomis builds a wormhole-themed coffee table.
posted by cortex at 11:06 AM PST - 37 comments

Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson [Huffington Post] CW: what it says on the tin. Feel free to look away if you like, but it provides deep insight into the making of a sausage most foul
posted by chavenet at 10:46 AM PST - 31 comments

Explore the Missing Profits of Nations map to see how much profit and tax revenue your country loses (or attracts) in this shell game for profits. Shifting reduces corporate income tax revenue by more than $200 billion, or 10% of global corporate tax receipts.
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:33 AM PST - 10 comments

Regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, he was 78. [more inside]
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 9:10 AM PST - 64 comments

Seven vulnerabilities in Threema found by Kenneth Paterson, Matteo Scarlata, and Kien Tuong Truong at ETH Zurich, including "a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between different subprotocols" and "a compression-based side-channel attack that recovers users’ long-term private keys through observation of the size of Threema encrypted backups". [more inside]
posted by jeffburdges at 7:12 AM PST - 21 comments