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"Lost species" De Winton's golden mole found after 86 years
Boing Boing,
A sand-swimming golden was located in South Africa after not being detected for a whopping 86 years. The adorable creature, called "De Winton's golden mole," was declared a "lost species" after having last been spotted way back in 1937, but a group of scientists from the Endangered Wildlife Trust, Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria, didn't give up hope that one day the it might be rediscovered. — Read the rest
Watch Yeti, an adorable rescued leucistic opossum, happily slurping up food
Have you ever seen a leucistic opossum? If not, meet Yeti, a gorgeous all-white opossum who was rescued by the Second Chances Wildlife Center in Mount Washington, Kentucky, after she got hit by a car. She suffered neurological damage and has only one working eye. — Read the rest
A gorgeous and intricate model of Howl's Moving Castle made out of trash
Back in August 2021, Gareth Branwyn here at Boing Boing shared this video documenting the creation of a replica model of Howl's Moving Castle by crafter and miniature model maker Studson, of Studson Studios. The model, which is made mostly out of trash and found objects, is simply amazing. — Read the rest
Elon Musk's AI is too woke for its target audience
If you've had the misfortune of being on X (formerly Twitter) recently, I'm so sorry. But you've also probably seen lots of posts about Grok, Elon Musk's in-house AI chatbot currently only accessible to those forking over money to him on a monthly basis. — Read the rest
Every famous last meal ranked
The last meal of the condemned is a tradition going back centuries, although it's now closely associated with the death penalty as we understand it in modern-day America. While the last requests of infamous inmates like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are now the stuff of folk legend, has anyone actually bothered to sit down and rate their final orders? — Read the rest
Artist creates adorable creatures with simple line drawings on photos of clouds
I just love these simple yet utterly charming drawings by Dublin, Ireland-based artist, illustrator, and author Chris Judge. For his series "A Daily Cloud," Judge adds simple line drawings to photographs of clouds to create sweet and funny characters, like these two adorable dogs talking, a disgruntled "King Kat," this silly squiggly legged jellyfish-like creature, and the cutest winter bird. — Read the rest
The worst tech you can buy in 2023
Brian Merchant hails the worst tech of 2023, an anti-gift guide for the holiday season that "sits atop an intersection of so many discouraging trendlines that I can't help but get depressed by them." The authority-friendly Amazon Ring doorbell, which looks out but sees within, is a solid pick—as is well-hacked ethnicity-testing site 23andMe, also authority-friendly. — Read the rest
Zone out watching and configuring hyperdimensional cubes
ncube is a single-serving site with a hypercube in it, smoothly prolapsing in the three dimensions that your screen can display. There's a panel with sliders that let you set the number of dimensions the cube has and warp it into other shapes. — Read the rest