space
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Atmosphere-breathing propulsion would let a low satellite use the air dragging it down as propellant, so flying closer to Earth can stay practical.
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xssfox rescued a deactivated Cricut Maker from e-waste with an RP2040 that rewrites the serial number over USB—clever, but Design Space still holds the kill switch. The real unlock is replacing Cricut entirely.
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NASA’s “Big Bang” power fix keeps Voyager 2’s three remaining science instruments running another year on a probe launched in 1977 for a five-year mission—now nearly 49 years old and still returning data from interstellar space.
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Consumer Rights Wiki documents BMW placing a Spider-Man: Brand New Day promotion on dashboards of cars customers already owned—breaking a 2023 promise that the company would not sell in-car screen space because a vehicle is a private space.
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IEEE Spectrum on satellite reentry particles lingering aloft—arguing “burn up” often relocates debris into the upper atmosphere, so constellation growth needs the full environmental cost of coming home counted, not just orbit risk.
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ScienceAlert explores research showing humans can learn echolocation and that the brain adapts as the skill develops—strengthening echo-processing pathways and, in highly skilled blind echolocators, recruiting vision-related areas.
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Jordan Scales’s 98.css rebuilds Windows 98 chrome in HTML and CSS—arguing a JS-free design system for retro UIs is useful for experiments and games, and that nothing sells a futuristic space prison quite like an AOL free-trial icon on the desktop.