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Working on this video was a true joy. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/the-bittersweet-nostalgia-of-video-games.html/feed 2 815235 Cheesemaking YouTuber threatened with legal action by Grana Padano after showing people how to make similar cheese https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/cheesemaking-youtuber-threatened-with-legal-action-by-grana-padano-after-showing-people-how-to-make-similar-cheese.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/cheesemaking-youtuber-threatened-with-legal-action-by-grana-padano-after-showing-people-how-to-make-similar-cheese.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:58:29 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815320 Gavin Webber, a cheesemaking YouTuber, was threatened with legal action after posting a video of him making a Grana Padano-style cheese. The ingredients and methods of recipes are not copyrightable , but the Grana Padano consortium claims that mentioning the name (which refers to a " protected designation of origin ") breaks the law, even though he was clear that what he was making was not, in fact, Grana Padano cheese or cheese from Grana Padano. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/cheesemaking-youtuber-threatened-with-legal-action-by-grana-padano-after-showing-people-how-to-make-similar-cheese.html/feed 11 815320 How does sound travel through space? https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/how-does-sound-travel-through-space.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/how-does-sound-travel-through-space.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:20:59 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=814614 Twenty Thousand Hertz is a podcast about sounds. Case in point: the latest episode, " Space Audity ," which explores how, exactly, sound travels through the vacuum space, and the very practical technological complications that would make potential Martian communications difficult. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/how-does-sound-travel-through-space.html/feed 5 814614 Quadriplegic gymnast fights for others with tea https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/quadriplegic-gymnast-fights-for-others-with-tea.html Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:00:22 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815256 A rising star on the Canadian gymnastic Olympic team, Taylor Lindsay-Noel, suffered a horrifying training accident that paralyzed her from the neck down in 2008. She was 14 at the time. Taylor Lindsay-Noel in an interview with The Star: "I was getting to re-write my narrative — divorcing an identity — only, a lot earlier. — Read the rest ]] 815256 Why it's okay you never finished reading that book, according to Francis Bacon in 1597 https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/why-its-okay-you-never-finished-reading-that-book-according-to-francis-bacon-in-1597.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/why-its-okay-you-never-finished-reading-that-book-according-to-francis-bacon-in-1597.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:45:58 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815182 I generally have a few piles of books around my house — I impulse-buy a lot. I start reading most of them, but only rarely finish one. I usually feel lousy about this — it's my fault for being too easily distracted, for having too little self-discipline, for being a gormless flake, etc. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/why-its-okay-you-never-finished-reading-that-book-according-to-francis-bacon-in-1597.html/feed 5 815182 Trump hosts press event from tiny table, then rants on Twitter https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/trump-hosts-press-event-from-tiny-table-then-rants-on-twitter.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/trump-hosts-press-event-from-tiny-table-then-rants-on-twitter.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:40:09 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815312 Trump emerged late Friday to talk to reporters in what turned out to be a fractious Thanksgiving press event. Trump claimed, falsely, that the "election was a fraud" and bickered with reporters. But it was the bizarre scene of a large man seated at an inexplicably tiny table that resonated online, with the hashtag #tinydesk trending and much laughter thrown his way. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/trump-hosts-press-event-from-tiny-table-then-rants-on-twitter.html/feed 40 815312 Watch this artisan carve a remarkably detailed Toyota Prado from wood https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/watch-this-artisan-carve-a-remarkably-detailed-toyota-prado-from-wood.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/watch-this-artisan-carve-a-remarkably-detailed-toyota-prado-from-wood.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:30:00 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815225 The detail and gorgeous grain of this wooden Toyota is a sight to behold. His 1967 Ford Mustang is pretty impressive, too: Image: YOuTube / Woodworking Art ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/watch-this-artisan-carve-a-remarkably-detailed-toyota-prado-from-wood.html/feed 1 815225 Scientists successfully implanted human genes into monkeys to increase their brain mass https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scientists-successfully-implanted-human-genes-into-monkeys-to-increase-their-brain-mass.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scientists-successfully-implanted-human-genes-into-monkeys-to-increase-their-brain-mass.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:14:38 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=814611 From Popular Mechanics : Researchers from Germany's Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany and Japan's Central Institute for Experimental Animals introduced a specifically human gene,  ARHGAP11B , into the fetus of a common marmoset monkey, causing the enlargement of its brain's neocortex. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scientists-successfully-implanted-human-genes-into-monkeys-to-increase-their-brain-mass.html/feed 7 814611 Scammer Payback deletes scammer's files while posing as old lady https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scammer-payback-deletes-scammers-files-while-posing-as-old-lady.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scammer-payback-deletes-scammers-files-while-posing-as-old-lady.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:10:56 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815291 There's something relaxing about the immensely satisfying Scammer Payback series where he strings along some scammer while wiping their computer in the background. It's amazing how long the scammer is willing to stay engaged when they think the old lady is driving to a store to buy gift cards to "give back" thousands of dollars "Kevin" the scammer sent her. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/scammer-payback-deletes-scammers-files-while-posing-as-old-lady.html/feed 3 815291 Treacherous road carved into a sheer cliff face https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/treacherous-road-carved-into-a-sheer-cliff-face.html https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/treacherous-road-carved-into-a-sheer-cliff-face.html#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:09:52 +0000 https://boingboing.net/?p=815301 It took villagers 15 years to hand-carve the Lanying Cliff Road in Chongqing. There's a motorcycle for scale. Before the road, they had to make a six-hour (!) stair climb to get to a nearby area. As you might imagine, the stairs were not too safe-looking. — Read the rest ]] https://boingboing.net/2020/11/27/treacherou...