Dark web

Usually, I take this tiny corner of my internet and talk about whatever cool things in the technology world caught my attention. We had a couple of those things happen this week, too. Like the Galaxy S21 which I think will be one of the best Android phones you can buy, especially once we see those inevitable sales and price drops in a few months. But I'm not going to write about any of those things today. I'm going to write about misery. … [Read more...] about Love will hurt you, but it will also make you whole again

In related news this evening, Citigroup has fired an employee who it had  suspended after finding out the employee had been running a side business maintaining a QAnon Web site, according to a report this evening by Bloomberg's William Turton and Jennifer Surane, citing remarks by a Citigroup spokesperson.  … [Read more...] about Facebook says it is removing anything representing QAnon

Since the invention of the microscope in the 16th century, scientists have used magnification and light to peer at organisms and structures too small to be seen with the naked eye. Today, high-powered modern microscopes offer a glimpse of worlds that researchers centuries ago could only dream of seeing, such as a water flea giving birth, vessels surrounding the brain of a juvenile zebrafish and even footage of individual living cells in 3D. … [Read more...] about Hidden secrets revealed in microscopic images of ancient artifacts

The prizing-winning images of Nikon's Small World competition were announced Wednesday (Oct. 30). Top honors went to a stunning photo of a colonial plankton organism, Chaetoceros debilis, taken by Wim van Egmond, a freelance photographer from the Netherlands, associated with the Micropolitan Museum in Rotterdam. … [Read more...] about Helix-Shaped Plankton Portrait Wins ‘Small World’ Contest

The striking scientific subjects of this year's entrants include an excited neuron; the larva of a peanut worm; marbled dewdrops on a spider web; a butterfly's coiled tongue; the surprisingly colorful crystals that form in battery leakage; and a creepy cluster of fish eggs, which look like sacs of clear jelly, each stuffed with a pair of eyes. [See Microscopic Photos from the Small World Competition] … [Read more...] about Dewdrops & Butterfly Tongues: Tiny Worlds Come to Life in Microscope Photos