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Thursday, 19 March 2026

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

quote [ As stories of men leaving their dates in ‘sketchy situations’ go viral, experts say these incidents could stem from big egos and poor communication ]

Above alpine peaks
[SFW] [people] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Singing Teachers for Honeyeaters

quote [ Scientists have saved the song of a critically endangered Australian bird by recruiting wild males to tutor zoo-born babies. ]

Honeyeater, where are you?
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Pokémon GO Players Unknowingly Helped Build a 30 Billion AR Image Map of the World

quote [ Niantic Spatial is using "crowdsourced" images of the world as the backbone of its tech, captured unknowingly by Pokémon GO players. ]

I just go for walks and play Pokemon Go
[SFW] [games] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:06amGMT] [3 comments]

Monday, 16 March 2026

On Gout

quote [ What the disease taught me about language, inheritance and pain. ]

Cause I got a bad case of the gout
[SFW] [health] [+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 15 March 2026

Last-Run Syndication

quote [ One of television’s most important business models, first-run syndication to local TV stations looking to fill airtime, might be losing strea … er, steam. ]

It feels like it's in syndication
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 14 March 2026

Astronomers Witnessed the Birth of a Magnetar for the First Time. It Explains the Mysterious Flickering of an Ultrabright Supernova

quote [ New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ]

Magnetar! The math behind celestial wrath
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:57pmGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 13 March 2026

Problem Child

quote [ Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves. ]

Bring light to this like Pixar movies slowly bouncin' by
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+1 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:23amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 12 March 2026

My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

quote [ The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly ]

All on the search for a Faberge Egg
[SFW] [people] [+2 Insightful]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:39pmGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

The Ghost Rockets of Scandinavia

quote [ n the summer of 1946, residents of Sweden and Finland began reporting strange objects in the sky. They were described as rocket, or missile-like, fast-moving, sometimes glowing, and often silent. ]

I'm seeing Ghost for the rocket
[SFW] [history] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [3 comments]

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

The Ballad of Ollie Jackson

quote [ How the Baddest Man in the St. Louis Underworld Failed to Become a Folk Hero ]

Like some kind of crazy folk hero
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:05amGMT] [0 comments]

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