Playing video games may boost your cognitive abilities and exercise can play a role in improving your mental health, but not the other way around, a large-scale study has found.
https://news.westernu.ca/2024/10/brain-body-study-results/

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My husband told me to stop impersonating a flamingo... I had to put my foot down.

The WaPo finally understands that the best thing to do is just print the speech verbatim.

Here’s how Donald Trump would lower grocery prices
In his own words.
[gift link] https://wapo.st/4ftKff5

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Throne calls its underlying technology “artificial gut intelligence.”

So, genuinely #InternetOfShit
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/20/thrones-toilet-camera-takes-pictures-of-your-poop/

We tried to like this coffee. But... nope.
Sisio Coffee Lab Fermented Artisanal Whole Bean Coffee

https://amzn.to/4h6lxTz

What are Hubble and Webb looking at right this minute? NASA’s Space Telescope Live, a web application originally developed in 2016 to deliver real-time updates on Hubble targets, offers easy access to up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming observations from both Hubble and Webb.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/what-is-webb-observing/

The Candidates and Their Books, covering the Presidential candidates as authors and their statements and opinions on bookish issues.

(From a LibraryThing newsletter earlier this year. It's a nice newsletter, recommended for all sorts of readers. Surely that includes you?) https://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php

Billie Jean But Every Instrument Is A Spring Door Stopper

You need this, I promise you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGLPP70Xtw

I laughed

I don't think I've used this induction cooktop since I reviewed it in 2019. Today we're using it for pancakes.

What took us so long? This is such a convenience. https://amzn.to/4eV2kmo

Overheard: On November 5th, it’ll be as if the whole world is waiting for a biopsy to come back.

Trump tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
Working with analyst group TPW (Trade Partnership Worldwide), the Consumer Technology Association estimates that a 10% global tariff + 60% China tariff would raise the cost of laptops by 45%.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/trump-tariffs-increase-laptop-electronics-prices

Truth.

“Baseball” was one of the early episodes of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour.
https://podbay.fm/p/theme-time-radio-hour-archive-theme-time-radio-hour/e/1397234407

Who Can See What You Do on Venmo? You’d Be Surprised.
https://www.consumerreports.org/money/digital-payments/who-can-see-what-you-do-on-venmo-a6906448606/

"A team of Stanford Medicine doctors and biomedical engineers are among the first to integrate a new augmented reality tool into surgical practice." (from Feb 2024) https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/augmented-reality-surgery.html

"This site contains 31,119 unique* 88x31 buttons that I scraped from the GeoCities archives" https://hellnet.work/8831/

Yes, of course this listicle includes _The Name of the Rose_ and _The Cadfael Chronicles_. So I'm motivated to check out the rest of these books.
https://crimereads.com/best-medieval-crime-novels/