Better get this lot posted before somebody pops up expecting me to work 
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- The Diabolical World of Phone Scams - Sarah Trevelyan investigates a long-running fraud targeted at Canadians: ”Since the scam began a decade ago, police say the criminals behind it have contacted—by phone, email and other means—every single adult Canadian. Tens of thousands of people have fallen victim to the operation, collectively losing at least $34 million, and possibly much more.”
- Ping, You’ve Got Whale - ”A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.” Seems like a more useful application of AI than making up vaguely convincing nonsense
- The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ - ”Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.” And to think it's only thirty-odd years since the first confirmed identification of an exoplanet
- The math behind the 'fractal' shape of cauliflower explained - HT to Paddy for this one: ”Have you ever stared at a cauliflower before preparing it and got lost in its stunningly beautiful pattern? Probably not, if you are in your right mind, but I reassure you it's worth a try.”
- Blue Ghost Mission 1: Live Updates - Cool news from the Moon as the Blue Ghost mission winds down, including images of a lunar eclipse from the other end: ”Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth.”
- Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf™ - HT to DoctorStrangelove for this useful project: ”I've been collecting ‘robots’ for a while now, and realized I didn't have ‘Talkie Toaster’ from the TV series Red Dwarf in my collection. I decided to make one; it should talk, but not be capable of toasting bread.”
- The Most Common Hiking Injuries and How To Prevent and Treat Them - Some useful tips should the coming of spring in a few days tempt you to go ambling around the countryside: ”I have been hiking for so many years now which means I have learnt a lot of lessons. Some of them painful. Some of them silly, with the crazy, looking back now, excuse of youthful invincibility… In doing those things that we love we add a little risk into our day to day lives. A sudden twist of the ankle on a rock, being in the sun too long unprepared, blisters from ill fitting footwear. There are many injuries and accidents that can stop you doing what you love for long periods of time.”
- Think your train trip is by second class? The railways abolished it a century ago - ”When you squeeze onto a train today, you probably think you’re travelling second (standard) class — in fact, you’re travelling third class because of a weird legacy of a law passed in 1844.” This is why I only go first class
- A Better World ? - ”Alternate History Simulation.” Game in which you selectively change history and see the ramifications. Try not to wipe out the human race!
- Lumon Industries WoeMeter - Make3 made the woemeter for the Apple TV show Severance in just six weeks: ”Project: Severance Season 2 Requirements: The story needed we build a machine that measured Woe in a person.”
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