In a world still recovering from a global pandemic, the news that scientists have uncovered 1,700 new viruses might sound like the last thing we need. But before you start stockpiling toilet paper again, rest assured these viruses are ancient, frozen for tens of thousands of years in a Tibetan glacier. And no, they’re not here to cause the next pandemic. Instead, they offer a fascinating glimpse into the distant past of our planet. Let’s dive into this icy adventure!

What is it about this dark, bitter, hot beverage that I love so much? And believe me, I really do love my coffee! If I had my way, I’d drink nothing but coffee all day. Actually, come to think of it, it *is* up to me, and that’s exactly what I do—I drink about 7 cups a day! I recently cut back on making every single one of those with a double shot of espresso. If you’re worried about my health, don’t be. I’ve Googled “How much coffee is too much coffee?” more times than I care to admit, and the…

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It feels like personal house robots are just around the corner. Tesla is working on its own robot servant , along with several other companies that are making leaps in a field that was long considered a pipe dream, thanks to advances in image recognition and AI. But what if we told you that 40 years ago, you could have purchased a home robot that could do much more than you would expect from a robot of the 1980s? In 1984, Hubot emerged as a pioneer in the world of personal robotics, offering a…

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I'm just going to say it: I'm really glad to be out of school . And it's not that I don't love learning new things—on the contrary, it's still one of my favorite things to do. It's just that the entire school system feels outdated and obsolete to me. Not just the idea of putting children in a closed room for hours and expecting them to memorize irrelevant information, but also the textbooks those kids are supposed to learn from. These textbooks are almost always out of date, badly written, and…

Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

Sure, anyone can do their job properly, but where's the fun in that? In this hilarious listicle , people from various different professions share some awkward and down-right ridicules stock photos of their jobs. For some reason, it seems like stock photo photographers are obsessed with representing every profession out there as wrongly as possible. Is your subject an environmental scientist? have him sit in the mud in a full hazmat suit next to a house plant. Is je a biologist? Show him injecti…

import random import internet def fetch_r andom_meme (): # Grab a random meme from the vast depths of the internet meme_sources = [ "Stack Overflow", "Random Reddit Threads", "GitHub Comments Section", "Twitter Developer Rants", "Ancient Programming Forums", "Mysterious Hacker Chatrooms", " The Deep Web (where all true memes are born)", ] # Search the internet for a meme source = random.choice(meme_sources) meme = f"Fetching a hilarious meme from {source}... Success!" return meme def generate_m…

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32 Nostalgic Magic Eye Images from Our Childhood

What is it about this black, bitter, hot beverage that I love so much? And I do love my coffee! I am dead serious when I say that if it were up to me, I would only drink coffee. Come to think of it, it IS up to me, and I DO only drink coffee. I drink about 7 cups of coffee a day and only recently stopped making EVERY one of those with a double shot of espresso . If you are worried about my health - don't. I have asked Google several times, "How much coffee is too much coffee?" and as it turns o…

Normal people are the worst!

It's funny because it's peer reviewed!

What is it about this black, bitter, hot beverage that I love so much? And I do love my coffee! I am dead serious when I say that if it were up to me, I would only drink coffee. Come to think of it, it IS up to me, and I DO only drink coffee. I drink about 7 cups of coffee a day and only recently stopped making EVERY one of those with a double shot of espresso . If you are worried about my health - don't. I have asked Google several times, "How much coffee is too much coffee?" and as it turns o…

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