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"An incredibly rare find": This ancient amphibian almost ended up forgotten inside a sandstone slab wall. Almost 30 years after a chicken farmer found an almost perfectly preserved fossil in a slab of sandstone, scientists have identified the skeleton as a prehistoric amphibian.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 9:47 PM PST - 5 comments

Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person. (Seth Simons, Longreads; content warning for sexual assault)
posted by dismas at 4:38 PM PST - 161 comments

Lawyer behind hundreds of food lawsuits faces sanctions in Starbucks, Walmart cases [Reuters, July 2023] [more inside]
posted by readinghippo at 3:16 PM PST - 46 comments

You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault [more inside]
posted by aniola at 2:25 PM PST - 89 comments

Follow along as Jason Hibbs of Bourbon Moth Woodworking turns his riding lawnmower into a tank.
posted by bondcliff at 12:19 PM PST - 9 comments

Philip K Dick Speaks in Metz, France in 1977 [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 11:00 AM PST - 8 comments

Most US Millennials Finally Own Their Own Homes
posted by Selena777 at 10:49 AM PST - 116 comments

On August 15, 1998, Apple introduced the iMac. It's very easy to go all fanboy/fangirl when discussing anything Apple, but it's no exaggeration to say that this 15" Bondi blue, all-in-one computer saved Apple from bankruptcy. The Verge looks back. [more inside]
posted by zooropa at 9:46 AM PST - 57 comments

Don Martin, host of Head on Fire pod, wishes to unite us under the banner of BimboLunch (slTikTok) [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 9:22 AM PST - 7 comments

Yellowknife, the largest settlement, capital, and only city in Canada's Northwest Territories, is being totally evacuated by land and air due to an encroaching fire. [more inside]
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:30 AM PST - 55 comments

Satrapi spoke to PW while on vacation in Stockholm about her shift from comics to film, the banning of books in America, and her pride in Iran's young revolutionaries.
posted by Etrigan at 5:58 AM PST - 2 comments

South Scrimshaw, Part One (free gog.com) is a beautifully hand drawn visual novel/documentary about a whale calf in an alien ocean three million light years away. PCgamer. Youtube walkthrough.
posted by adept256 at 4:22 AM PST - 2 comments