“Adventure photographer Mike Mezeul II captured something truly extraordinary a couple of weeks ago. While hiking around Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii one night in September, he managed to capture the moon, the Milky Way, a meteor, and flowing lava in a single frame. It’s one of those photos that comes around once in a lifetime, something that Mezeul recognized as soon as he pressed the shutter. ‘I was literally in shock,’ he told HuffPo UK. ‘It was my third frame to shoot after the sun had set, and after I saw the meteor, I knew I couldn’t beat that image, so I packed it up and headed back.’” | | Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 support in October 2025, which means no more security updates, no more patches, and a growing list of reasons for bad actors to throw a party on your hard drive. Windows 11 Pro fixes that — and then some. You get Copilot AI baked right into the taskbar, Snap Layouts for people who have 47 tabs open at all times, BitLocker encryption, and DirectX 12 Ultimate for gaming that actually looks like it was made this decade. Lifetime access is now under $15, but only on the link below. [Ad] | | “A message from the future sounds like science fiction, until someone starts asking how many bits it could actually carry. That is the question three physicists have now answered, using a setup inspired by Interstellar, where a father stranded near a black hole reaches back to his daughter across time. In the film, the scene plays as emotion and spectacle. In the new work, it becomes a communication problem with a hard limit, a noisy channel, and a precise mathematical answer. … Their paper … asks what happens if information does not move forward in time as it normally does, but backward, through what physicists call a retrocausal channel. The twist is that the channel is not assumed to be perfect. It can lose information, scramble it, or distort it, just as real communication channels do.” | | “Today, we’re going to talk about a candy store in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. And about how candy stores have always played a big role in the town’s history. Back in the 1840s, a German immigrant named Frederick Roeder set up a little sweet shop in Harpers Ferry. … And today, the connection between candy and history is still going strong in Harpers Ferry. There’s a plaque marking the site of Roeder’s old store. And just a few steps away, down a street called Hog’s Alley, is a place called True Treats. It’s a candy shop, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. It’s also sort of an edible timeline of the history of candy.” | | This hi-def radar app is what happens when someone looks at every other weather app and says “this isn’t enough.” Real-time and future-animated radar on an interactive satellite map. Wildfire overlays. Earthquake tracking. Lightning alerts. Icy road conditions. Ten-day forecasts. It does basically everything except hold an umbrella over you — and honestly, that’s your job. $40 to never wonder again whether you should pack one. [Ad] | | “If you’ve ever cracked a birding book, you’ll know it’s filled with onomatopoetic descriptions of bird songs (chirrups, coos, squawks, and so on). What you might not find in those books is the curious noise produced by the South American scissor-tailed nightjar. It’s a soft, snapping noise that’s puzzled ornithologists for some time, but according to new research published in the Journal of Avian Biology, it’s the sound of the nightjar clapping.” | |
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