✨ Discover this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Science,Science / Health,Triple G 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Such endorsements abound online. Other Rita boosters also point to its purported ability to reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol. (Some clinical literature has suggested the potential of GLP-1 drugs in treating addiction, due to their ability to rewire dopamine signals in the brain.) Less desirable side effects, in trials and anecdotally, include low energy, dizziness, skin hypersensitivity (a form of extreme sensitivity to touch), and decreased libido.Eli Lilly, the drug's manufacturer, is currently completing phase III trials. If all goes…
💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > Google has removed dozens of new Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the United States. Unlike typical DMCA takedowns, the removals were triggered by a dated court order that was not enforced for several years. This appears to be one of the first times Google has deindexed an entire pirate site in the U.S. based on a 'site blocking' style injunction. In 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading source of academic publications in the…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Musicals,Stephen Sondheim,Bridge theatre,Stage,Culture,Fairytales,Books,Tom Scutt ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: CDoes the always imaginative Brothers Grimm mash-up of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine disappoint, when his book is so clever and driven by the most wonderful (if difficult) music? Jordan Finn's production sparkles and sparkles with all the humor and pathos of these wayward fairytale characters having a misadventure in the woods, their rearranged stories wrapping around each other.The show starts with brisk efficiency, racing along with some early songs, but it packs in the emotion and…
🚀 Read this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Audio,Gear / Products / Headphones,Product Review 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Transparency is very good, and I'm really annoyed that it doesn't work when I'm on a call. If so, these cans would be great for long calls and meetings. Microphones are remarkably adept at keeping background noise invisible to callers. When that noise was particularly loud, my voice faded somewhat, but only the high-pitched wail of a siren managed to break through. When my environment was quieter, the XH1 maintained my…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: This title is an obvious nod toTo encrypt email in 1998 you’d run GnuPG from a terminal, importing the recipient’s public key into your local keyring then copying your email text into a file then encrypting the file for that public key: gpg -e -r alice file. Finally you’d copy the encrypted message into your email client and send it out.In 2025, it’s pretty much the same. In some respects, it’s worse:It feels like fewer people care about email encryption today than they…
💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Dick Van Dyke,Film,Culture,Mary Poppins,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,Television,Julie Andrews ✅ Main takeaway: AAll Hollywood stars grow old and die, except perhaps for one of them - Dick Van Dyke - who turns 100 today. The real world Peter Pan who used to stumble upon the ottoman on The Dick Van Dyke Show is still standing. The man who impersonated the wind-up toy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang hasn't given up yet. He has outlived mentors, co-stars, romantic partners, and many studios. He has outlived the jokes about…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Buying Guide ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: We're talking $80 (or more) t-shirts here, so that's a valid question. I think merino shirts are worth the investment. They offer significant benefits over cotton and other natural fibers, as well as synthetic materials. Merino offers great temperature regulation, excellent moisture absorption, and is odorless, which means you can wear it more and not need as much of it. Three merino shirts in your wardrobe will last you as many days as 10 cotton shirts, so…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID.I am writing this as a desperate measure. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: Strictly Come Dancing6.35pm, BBC OneStrictly semi-final! After Katja and Louis' surprise exit, the shiny ball is up for grabs. But that's not all: next Saturday's final will be a bittersweet moment as Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly ditch the fake tan and sequins and say goodbye to the show they have presented for so many years - but they will return to host the special at 5.30pm on Christmas Day. Holly Richardson Jingle Bell Ball in DC 20254.50pm on ITV1Belle jingle!…
✨ Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Smart Home,Gear / Products / Lifestyle,Buying Guide 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: There's a lot to think about before you invest in age technology. I spoke with Ed Page of AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) about what you should consider.Do they want that?The critical first question to ask is: How receptive is an older person to having this technology in the home? Before you consider purchasing, you should have a conversation with the seniors and everyone living in the home,…
