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Little Italy

36 local grocery stores in Toronto doing online delivery or pickup by neighbourhood

Toronto grocery stores with online delivery and pickup options are a great way to avoid the madness of shopping at bigger supermarkets, and odds are there's one in your neighbourhood. Not only does ordering from a small business support them, you might just happen upon some great products you wouldn't have…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Syria

Syria adds night curfew to coronavirus curbs

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria on Wednesday began a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. as lockdown measures to counter the spread of coronavirus were extended, residents and state media said. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in empty Souk al-Hamidieh as restrictions are imposed as measure to prevent the…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Sleeping Pods

An eerily beautiful drone video of San Francisco shut down

Dan Denegre (Space Race Studio) used his DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone to shoot this eerie yet beautiful video of San Francisco on pause. The soundtrack is "La Guitarra Triste" by Cast of Characters. "Thankfully few people are outside (I wasn't even close to a person), but seeing the shops…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Trickle-Down

Letting People Die To ‘Save’ The Economy Is A Losing Idea

Reading, PA - March 24: Mary Keller of Blandon adds food and moves boxes as volunteers gathered ... Tuesday March 24, 2020 at the Santander Arena to pack boxes of emergency food through Helping Harvest and Berks Encore, for seniors who are homebound as a result of efforts to keep…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Greta Thunberg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remembers ‘Great Fortune’ of Finding Husband Marty: ‘I Feel His Loss Every Day’

In a new series inspired by iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives her thoughts on equality and service — and remembers her powerful connection with her late husband, Marty Ginsburg. “I had the great fortune to marry a man who thought my work…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Korean War

6 deadly bioweapons the US Army has faced since 1969

Few things are more frightening as a weapon than infectious diseases. The idea of a creeping, invisible death that will probably make you bleed from places you'd rather not is much worse than the idea of getting shot. In this veteran's opinion, anyway. In any case, it's a good thing…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Exoskeleton

Ankle exoskeleton makes running easier

Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting physical activity – and possibly creating a new mode of transportation – engineers at Stanford University are studying devices that people could strap to their legs to make running easier. Go to the web site…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

NSA

How to look cute on your webcam that the government is definitely spying on

Image via EFF / Flickr (CC 2.0) Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy In the 1970s, the Soviets managed to intercept top secret communications in the US embassy in Moscow and nobody could figure out how. While an antenna was eventually…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Berlin Wall

Featured set of the day: Hovercraft

Posted by Huw, 25 Mar 2020 18:00Today's set has been selected by myth: This little spacecraft, 6875 Hovercraft, was my first ever set. From what little I remember from that time, as I was 5 or 6 years old, I immediately fell in love with LEGO and the whole space…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

Exoskeleton

This Ankle Exoskeleton Was Designed To Make Running Easier

Photo: Stanford University Running is one of the most affordable forms of exercise, but it’s also one that people love to groan about—and for good reason. It’s a high-impact sport that can be hard on the body, and that’s without factoring in however you might feel about your individual athleticism.…

bubmagMarch 25, 2020

36 local grocery stores in Toronto doing online delivery or pickup by neighbourhood

Syria adds night curfew to coronavirus curbs

An eerily beautiful drone video of San Francisco shut down

Letting People Die To ‘Save’ The Economy Is A Losing Idea

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remembers ‘Great Fortune’ of Finding Husband Marty: ‘I Feel His Loss Every Day’

6 deadly bioweapons the US Army has faced since 1969

Ankle exoskeleton makes running easier

How to look cute on your webcam that the government is definitely spying on

Featured set of the day: Hovercraft

This Ankle Exoskeleton Was Designed To Make Running Easier

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