In 1973 a French journalist named Anne-France Dautheville became the first known woman to complete a motorcycle trip around the world all by herself. She was born in Paris in 1944 and began riding motorcycles in the late 1960s.

She rode over 20,000 miles through three different continents on a 125 cc Kawasaki. — Read the rest

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This cheat sheet shows you ways to store your fruit and vegetables that you might not have known about, and it is life-changing once you do. If you want your fruit and vegetables to last longer, then this is for you. — Read the rest

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This aluminum can compactor looks like a giant red robot monster, and I'm obsessed with it. Recycling is way more fun when you can feed it into the mouth of a giant creature that chomps it down. Art like this is awesome because it is interactive, fun to look at, and it helps the environment. — Read the rest

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How Many People Are In Space Right Now doesn't have a question mark, but it does give the answer: 10 humans, as of Friday, September 18, 2026, all on the International Space Station and Tiangong space station.

Aboard the ISS are Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Anil Menon of the U.S., — Read the rest

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My RTX 3090 is at a board-level repair shop, and I'm not going to spend the kind of money a modern, already two-year-old video card costs to replace it if it's dead. I threw GeForce Now on my 2017 Linux/Windows laptop, and it seems to work better than my 24Gb Nvidia monster card, even when it was working. — Read the rest

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Douglas Yao, a man claiming to have a degree in computational biology from Harvard, claims that he made a new schizophrenia drug that ChatGPT designed.

He said that he made it in a chemistry lab that he set up in his garage. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get the power of 50+ AI models in one app with AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan for just $39.99 (Reg. $499).

You've been told countless times how efficient your AI stack is supposed to make you. But if you feel like you spend too much time toggling through tools or plugging queries into multiple AI dashboards, then you need to rethink your stack. — Read the rest

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Here's a cool Kickstarter project featuring the comic book art of Denis Kitchen, an underground comics publishing legend, founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and agent for both Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. Kitchen is best known as the publisher of Kitchen Sink Press, but he is also a great cartoonist. — Read the rest

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