Posted at 02:02PM on October 10, 2022 by \tRob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Drug cartels switching to synthetic drugs
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Posted at 12:41PM on August 21, 2021 by Rob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Website to explore and share UFO sightings
UFO Discovery is a site where you can share your sightings of unidentified flying objectsin the U.S., at leastand browse those of others. It looks like someone's plugged in classics all the way back to the 1960s!...
Posted at 11:45AM on October 03, 2020 by Rusty Blazenhoff @ Boing Boing
Squee alert: A hummingbird feeds its teeny-tiny chicks
Oh my goodness, baby hummingbirds are so incredibly small and darling. I had no idea. EverythingBirds.com:How small is a baby hummingbird?…Their eggs are only about the size of a coffee bean, while the nest of a ruby-throated hummingbird is about the size of half a walnut sh...
Posted at 05:02PM on October 08, 2019 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
Man gets treated in hospital for infected knee – gets a bill for $618,967.78
On Reddit, u/xplodingboy07 said he got a nasty knee infection and had to spend a month in the hospital. He posted a photo of the bill, which was for $618,967.78.That's $20,000 a day. And here I was thinking that the $106,911.93 bill my elderly relative got for spending 8 day...
Posted at 06:53PM on October 03, 2019 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
26-year-old Americans are now more likely to live with parents than a spouse
In 1968 78% of 26-year-olds in the U.S. lived with a spouse, and 12% lived with their parents. By 2018 30% lived with parents and only 24% lived with a spouse.From Apartment List:Starting with 2007
the year before the collapse of the housing market bubble
we see the beginnin...
