Max Vapor

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Max VaporOct 4
Video: Can Power Lines Really Light a Bulb in Your Hand? [8:26] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAAEPnbL58
Can Power Lines Really Light a Bulb in Your Hand?

YouTube
Max VaporOct 4
Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized https://www.wired.com/story/cloning-came-to-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso/
Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.

WIRED
Max VaporOct 3
Tricks of the Trunk https://www.biographic.com/tricks-of-the-trunk/
Max VaporOct 3
Video: Canada’s Greatest Victory? – Caught on Film (WW1 Documentary) [17:00] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7VfXux-Gc
Canada’s Greatest Victory? – Caught on Film (WW1 Documentary)

YouTube
Max VaporOct 2
DeepSeek-v3.1 https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821
DeepSeek-V3.1 Release | DeepSeek API Docs

Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀

Max VaporOct 2
‘Landmines have become the greatest protectors’: how wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/north-south-korea-war-demilitarised-zone-dmz-ecology-endangered-wildlife-aoe
‘Landmines have become the greatest protectors’: how wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ

The demilitarised zone between North and South Korea has become an ecological oasis with nearly 6,000 species documented, including rare cranes, deer and bears

The Guardian
Max VaporOct 1
Read the Dramatic 17th-Century Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/read-the-dramatic-17th-century-memoirs-of-alice-thornton-who-wrote-four-versions-of-her-life-story-180987167/
Read the Dramatic 17th-Century Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story

Researchers have digitized all four volumes, which are now available online. The autobiographies offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history

Smithsonian Magazine
Max VaporOct 1
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets https://www.livescience.com/space/longest-canyon-in-the-solar-system-reveals-new-secrets-space-photo-of-the-week
Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets — Space photo of the week

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.

Live Science
Max VaporSep 25
An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/for-15-anyone-can-dig-up-diamonds-in-this-arkansas-state-park/
An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

Visitors have unearthed over 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972.

Ars Technica
Max VaporSep 25
Workers need better protections from the heat https://www.theverge.com/news/764463/heat-stress-health-work-protections
Workers need better protections from the heat 

Heat stress needs to be taken more seriously in the workplace, the World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization say in a new report.

The Verge