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Keyboardist Dressed as Michael Myers Plays the ‘Halloween’ Theme in New York City Subway Station

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An Alabama man has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s social media account on X in a bid to juice Bitcoin’s worth. While the exact evidence that led the Feds to his door isn’t clear, it’s possible Eric Council, Jr., suspected their eventual arrival—prior to his capture, the 25-year-old reportedly searched the internet on his personal computer for phrases including “SECGOV hack,” “how can I know for sure if I am being investigated by the FBI,” and “what are the signs that you are under investigation by law enforcement or the FBI even if you have not been contacted by them.”

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The car was built by students at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick and will run off a byproduct of wastewater from the utilities company Severn Trent Water.

The Waste2Race Le Mans Prototype race car (LMP3) has been built from a selection of spare and unused parts to further its sustainable street cred in a world little-regarded for its sustainability—motorsport.

The car itself will be used to try to break one of several land speed records depending on how it performs, including the fastest standing and flying starts for both a mile and a kilometer. Its creators hope to have the car fully up and running in the next 6 to 12 months.

The parts themselves come from Ginetta, a British specialist builder of racing and sports cars based in Leeds. Among its green bits and bobs are materials made from recycled carbon fiber and a wing mirror made from beetroot waste.

The steering wheel is also 100% natural, while the firm ENRG Motorsport contributed a battery recovered from a crashed road car.

“These sorts of collaborations are a great example of how businesses, universities, and the endless curiosity of our students can break barriers and push the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Head of the Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Group at WMG, Professor Kerry Kirwan.

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A young Utah resident has had her classroom civics lessons suddenly explode into life after some crayon drawings she made of a better playground became reality.

Olson, now 12, had made the drawings to sketch out what she thought would be the best playground for her and her younger sisters to play on.

“Rosili realized the playground by her house was suited for ages 5-12 and was not geared toward her younger sister,” Clearfield County officials wrote in the caption of a Facebook video showing off the creation process. “After seeing her initiative and detail, we knew we had to make her dream happen.”

Olson’s mother called city hall and asked if it were possible to bring them in. They agreed, and soon were in the office of Eric Howes, the city’s head of parks and recreation, to make the pitch.

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An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry. The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire withdrew more than two dozen lots from an upcoming auction titled “The Curious Collector Sale,” including an 18th-century Tsantsa shrunken head, which was expected to fetch £20,000-£25,000 (US$26,000-US$33,000) and was previously owned by Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine. Other withdrawn lots include an ancestral skull from the Solomon Islands, another from the Fon tribe in Benin and a double ancestor skull from Congo.

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I'm fucking dying someone please make a Pink Panther-style crime comedy about this

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The guitar sold on eBay this week for a final bid price of $6,550, which is more than $2,500 higher than the original price it was purchased at.

Author: Ryan Osborne

Published: 9:33 AM CDT October 10, 2024

Updated: 9:39 AM CDT October 10, 2024

ENNIS, Texas — This one might give credence to the old saying, "All publicity is good publicity."

The viral North Texas hammer-smashing of an autographed Taylor Swift guitar – which was met by backlash from many, celebrated by others but nonetheless was seen by millions – apparently increased the value of the acoustic instrument.

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A case of road rage on Interstate 93 ended with an alleged attack with a hockey stick, police said. The Salem Police Department said they responded to the Salem Icenter for an assault report on Sept. 13.

One driver allegedly recognized another. The two started arguing, and one driver struck the other with a hockey stick.

The alleged victim fell down and hit his head on a metal pipe.A Salem police officer put out an arrest warrant for the suspect.No names have been released.

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So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn't work well and I'm sorry but it's the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.

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In this context, we’re defining ‘habitability’ as having conditions necessary to life to arrive and survive. Jupiter’s icy moons are particularly exciting prospects for life considering the oceans that hide beneath their surfaces.

During the Earth flyby, SWI 'listened' for the signals from hundreds of molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, including water and the so-called ‘CHNOPS’ elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulphur). The CHNOPS elements are the most common ingredients of living organisms.

MAJIS also measured the composition of the atmosphere, detecting important molecules such as oxygen, ozone, carbon dioxide and water. Furthermore, the instrument imaged Earth’s surface in infrared light, resulting in information-rich temperature maps.

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Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike biohybrid humanoid robots in the future.

The scientists, led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo’s Biohybrid Systems Laboratory, attached cultured skin to a 3D facial mold using perforation-type anchors, which mimic the natural structure of human skin ligaments.

“The ultimate aim of this project is to create robots with fully-functional, lifelike skin that can heal itself, sense its surroundings and perform tasks that closely mimic human behavior,” Takeuchi told ABC News.

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The female deep-sea anglerfish is very large compared with the male deep-sea anglerfish. In some species, he sniffs her out (using his giant nostrils) and upon finding his mate, he bites into her, his teeth and lips then dissolving into her flesh. His little fishy body dangling off hers like a limp appendage, he loses himself utterly, including the use of his eyes – what is the point of them, when he has hers? Some males “become little more than blobs or skin tags”, says James Maclaine, senior curator of fish at the Natural History Museum. The two fuse together so completely as to become one physiological entity, with one combined bloodstream, living one life and, eventually, dying one death.

I mention this because I do not think it only applies to deep-sea anglerfish. There is a particular way of being in a relationship in which two people allow themselves to be – perhaps crave being, as well as fear being – totally fused together, losing their own sense of identity completely, so that they are no longer two separate individuals together but one seamless entity. Not seeing with two sets of eyes, but with one. In fact, I think it is quite common.

This does not happen as dramatically in humans as it does with anglerfish. There is no permanent physical fusing, of course – it is all taking place in a psychological dimension, deep in the unconscious, so it can be more subtle to spot.

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Researchers say the preservation of the animal - and of the small, unfortunate creatures it ate - shines new light on how these predators lived.

It is "solid evidence that tyrannosaurs drastically changed their diet as they grew up," said Dr Darla Zelenitsky, from the University of Calgary.

The specimen is a juvenile gorgosaurus - a close cousin of the giant T. rex.

This particular gorgosaur was about seven years old - equivalent to a teenager in terms of its development. It weighed about 330kg when it died - about a tenth of the weight of a fully-grown adult.

The hind limbs of two, small bird-like dinosaurs called citipes are visible beneath its ribcage.

"We now know that these teenage [tyrannosaurs] hunted small, young dinosaurs," said Dr Zelenitsky, one of the lead scientists in this study, which is published in the journal Science Advances.

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According to Britain’s Times, attendees of previous showings of the work have questioned “whether there really was a hole in the floor or whether it was simply a circle painted with an extremely dark black paint.” Presumably there will be no doubts going forward.

Though the Descent Into Limbo installation was reportedly surrounded with warning signs and staffers warning visitors not to get too close, there was no barrier around it. How the museumgoer, whom Portugal’s Publico reports was an Italian man in his 60s, was able to step into the hole isn’t known, but he was briefly hospitalized for the eight-foot fall. The museum closed the exhibit to assess what happened, but says it plans to reopen it soon.

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New York is a beautiful city

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Update Feb 2, 2016: Eric Tereshinski’s ex-friends and business partners have issued a statement saying his video is “completely false.”

Two sides, of course, to every story. Tyler Monce and Devon Staley, the two men accused by Eric Tereshinski of spending Ant Simulator’s crowdfunding money on ‘liquor and strippers’, have been speaking to Game Informer about what they think of the developer’s video. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re not pleased, issuing a series of denials and a completely different story of what happened towards the end of last year and into this one.

If only they’d known about the best adult games on PC, they could have just spent the budget on copies of The Witcher instead.

Here’s what Monce, who was in charge of financing, has to say about the video itself:

“It’s completely false. I don’t know why he’s painting that picture, but the reality is that anything that was spent in a bar or restaurant was very reasonable in nature when you look at any business, including video game companies. It was part of our operating budget, it’s not anything that was excessive. It was all reported to the IRS. The picture he’s painting about that is 100 percent bull****.”

Some interesting stuff to note in there. He says it’s completely false, but does at least imply that they spent company money in bars and resteraunts. He doesn’t even mention the strippers, either because he finds the notion so ridiculous as to not be worth legitimising with a denial, or because he doesn’t think he can pass it off as “very reasonable.” It’s also a bit odd to see him talking about this sort of spending being the nature of business – I’ve no doubt it is, for the big publishers and developers who can afford it, but maybe not for indie games about ants, eh?

I fucking love the indie games industry

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Unsurprisingly, the crabs’ habitat has changed significantly over the last 2,000 years. The area on which the Colosseum and Roman Forum now stand was once a marshy valley fed by the Tiber River’s waters, explains naturalist Gianluca Damiani. The crabs’ ancestors likely used the river as an aquatic highway to move around the area. During the construction of the ancient Roman Forum between the first century B.C. and the second century A.D., the Romans built the Cloaca Maxima, a drainpipe system still in use, to drain the area and funnel its waters into the Tiber.

The timing of these construction efforts is one reason why researchers believe the crabs have inhabited Rome’s sewers for centuries. Urbanization cut the crabs off from the Tiber, isolating them from other members of their species and trapping them in the middle of the developing city. “They have been stuck in the center of Rome since antiquity. What we see today is a relic of an ancient population that once lived there,” explains Damiani.  

All roads lead to Rome, all lineages evolve to CRAB 🦀🦀