FCC Finally Stops Prison Telecom Monopolies From Ripping Off Inmates And Their Families

“Under the new rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to $0.90 from as much as $11.35 in large jails and, in small jails, to $1.35 from $12.10,” the FCC said.

Really should be $0, but progress.

Indian vultures: Decline of scavenger birds caused 500,000 human deaths

By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population had plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle that is fatal to vultures. Birds that fed on carcasses of livestock treated with the drug suffered from kidney failure and died.

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650,000,000 checks

Scaling rapidly in real time is fun! Try it.

A Eulogy for DevOps

Recreating Schotter by Georg Nees

Schotter (“Gravel”, aka “Cubic Disarray”).

NASA Warns Space Hawk Has Swooped In And Picked Up Earth For Nest

“We are on high alert after our satellite imaging confirmed that a quite sizable space hawk has in fact descended on Earth and carried it off with the intention of feeding our planet to its interstellar hatchlings,”

Are These Really ‘the ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’?

The spiraling, metastasizing length of these meals seems designed to convince you that there’s just no way a mere 10 or 15 courses could contain all the genius in the kitchen.

One well-traveled diner told me about a recent, four-hour meal at Disfrutar, in Barcelona — No. 1 this year. He said he was “blown away” and at the same time he never wants to go back. “It was an assault, and not fun,”

Ancient Maya Genomes Sequenced for First Time

What Is the Best Way to Cut an Onion?

the ideal point to be exactly .557 onion radiuses below the surface of the cutting board

First ‘Time Crystal’ Built Using Google’s Quantum Computer