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A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (325+ words) Pompous scholars were a standard joke on the Italian stage through the 16th century. Arnoud Visser writes in The Public Domain Review that Francesco Belo, a playwright from Rome, published the first play to put one at the center. In El…...
A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (214+ words) first T. rex novel — Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (1916) / public domain, via The Public Domain Review Louis Pope Gratacap was the curator of mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History from 1880 until his death in 1917. He usually…...
DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (367+ words) Reading this story made me so damn tired: as part of their effort to replace human employees with delivery robots, DoorDash has come up with a cunning plan: they're gonna use the human employees they want to replace to load…...
Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (425+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 helps turn workflows, networks, floor plans, and other complicated ideas into polished diagrams. Get a lifetime Windows license for $44.97 (reg. $579.99). Some…...
This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (497+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Ask questions about PDFs, generate summaries, edit documents, and convert files without juggling multiple apps. PDNob Pro is $49.99 for life (reg. $349.95). AI has finally…...
From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (494+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Save big on tools you'll actually use with this Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows license, now only $19.97 (MSRP $229). From building a budget to…...
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (332+ words) A metal that has never been recorded before turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay. Writing in Science Advances, Luca Bindi, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Mario Wannier, and Teresa Salvatici report the discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by…...
Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (357+ words) A medevac flight that should have taken half an hour ended on the side of a mountain in New Mexico, killing all four aboard. Jeff Wise reports for Wired that a military GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away is part of…...
The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (271+ words) This churning is what produces the Sun's biggest outbursts. "These twisting motions are creating magnetic energy, which can build up to produce those large-scale explosions," NSO astronomer Dr David Kuridze told BBC News. His colleague Dr Friedrich Woeger said the…...
Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (335+ words) NASA created a Martian Dust Limit Working Group this year to figure out how much Mars dust a person can safely breathe, and Leonard David reports for Space.com on the dust hazard and how future astronauts might deal with…...