Jennifer Ouellette

Science writer, Ars Technica. Formerly Gizmodo. Exvangelical. Married to @seanmcarroll. Baltimore, MD. She/her

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2024-08-01 03:31:14

Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise US Voters https://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-efforts-disenfranchise-voters/

2024-07-30 14:13:09

White Dudes For Harris Online Rally Raises Millions In Donations But Then Sees X Account Suspended https://deadline.com/2024/07/white-dudes-harris-rally-twitter-x-account-suspended-elon-musk-1236026283/

2024-07-28 21:31:22

An Entire British Sunday Roast Rolled Inside a Yorkshire Pudding That’s Folded Like a Burrito https://laughingsquid.com/sunday-roast-yorkshire-burrito/

2024-07-22 20:41:12

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions [SATIRE] https://www.theonion.com/news-happening-faster-than-man-can-generate-uninformed-1851601466

2024-07-16 23:04:02

Hidden Figure: Meet the woman whose research helped the FBI catch notorious serial killers. Hulu documentary "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" traces the career of Dr. Ann Burgess. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/meet-the-woman-whose-research-helped-the-fbi-catch-notorious-serial-killers/

2024-06-20 14:34:13

How the Ancient Greeks made beautiful purple dye from snail glands. https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/how-the-ancient-greeks-romans-made-beautiful-purple-dye-from-snail-glands.html

2024-06-14 16:44:36

Dark Matter Telescope’s Dazzling New Images Shine https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-telescopes-dazzling-new-images-shine/

2024-06-14 00:01:24

Fractured Ice Drifts Atop a Frosty Baltic Sea in Bernhard Lang’s Stunning New Photos https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/bernhard-lang-baltic-ice/

2024-06-13 16:47:55

The Christian right is coming for divorce next https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans

2024-06-01 12:39:37

Neo-Nazi leader who protested drag queen story hours arrested for child pornography https://boingboing.net/2024/05/31/neo-nazi-leader-who-protested-drag-queen-story-hours-arrested-for-child-pornography.html

2024-05-24 16:02:40

Florida bans rainbow lighting on bridges as Pride Month approaches. "Such decisions were previously left to local governments, but they kept putting up the devil's rainbows during Pride Month." https://boingboing.net/2024/05/23/florida-bans-rainbow-lighting-on-bridges-for-pride-month.html

2024-05-23 07:35:21

The Sordid History of U.S. Food Safety Highlights the Importance of Regulation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sordid-history-of-u-s-food-safety-highlights-the-importance-of/

2024-05-15 17:41:10

A Cubic Millimeter of a Human Brain Has Been Mapped in Spectacular Detail https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-cubic-millimeter-of-a-human-brain-has-been-mapped-in-spectacular-detail/

2024-05-10 14:52:18

World Warned to Prepare for Today's Severe Geomagnetic Storm, First in 20 Years https://gizmodo.com/severe-solar-geomagnetic-solar-storm-watch-1851468637

2024-05-06 23:50:21

Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner https://gizmodo.com/boeing-admits-employees-falsified-aircraft-records-1851459132

2024-04-08 15:25:48

How medieval people described solar eclipses https://www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medieval-solar-eclipses/

2024-04-05 15:20:58

Conspiracy Theorists Say Everyone Should Stare at the Eclipse Without Eye Protection. "Some of the theories that it’s fine to stare at the eclipse are rooted in nothing more than a belief that everyone should just ignore experts."
Can you say Oppositional Defiance Disorder? PS: wear eye protection it you're watching the eclipse. please. Don't risk, yanno, your EYES... https://gizmodo.com/conspiracy-theorists-say-stare-at-eclipse-1851387594

2024-03-26 17:01:04

Lego tells California police department to stop using minifig heads to obscure suspects' faces https://boingboing.net/2024/03/25/lego-tells-california-police-department-to-stop-using-minifig-heads-to-obscure-suspects-faces.html

2024-03-21 19:12:21

Choose your side in a civil war with "House of the Dragon" dueling S2 trailers. Is it a war for the good of the realm, or the "satisfaction of vengeance"? https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/03/choose-your-side-in-a-civil-war-with-house-of-the-dragons-dueling-s2-trailers/

2024-03-20 22:26:25

She Might Have Inspired One of Netflix’s Biggest Shows. She Died Last Month. No One Wrote About It. Why Lisa Lane left chess behind, very soon after she found it. https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/womens-chess-queens-gambit-netflix-lisa-lane.html

2024-03-09 17:02:18

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009083

2024-03-09 00:00:18

How Netflix's Nimona Defied the Odds to Become an Academy Award-Nominated Film https://gizmodo.com/nimona-oscar-nominated-netflix-animated-film-interview-1851318966

2024-03-07 17:43:47

Don’t use these six cinnamon products, FDA warns after concerning lead tests https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008657

2024-02-27 22:26:10

Uncle of 10-year-old killed in Uvalde mass shooting arrested for saying f*ck to ex-police chief (video). "There were eight to nine students still in that classroom, and you walked the fuck away," https://boingboing.net/2024/02/27/uncle-of-10-year-old-killed-in-uvalde-mass-shooting-arrested-for-saying-fck-to-ex-police-chief-video.html

2024-02-20 14:57:42

Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider. more than a decade after the excitement of finding the Higgs, there is a sense of unease, because there are still unanswered questions about the fundamental constituents of the universe. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/20/1088002/higgs-boson-physics-particle-collider-large-hadron-collider/

2024-02-14 21:27:35

What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong https://www.vox.com/culture/24067506/5-love-languages-gary-chapman

2024-02-06 23:42:45

Perseverance Rover Spots NASA's Busted Helicopter at Its Final Resting Place https://gizmodo.com/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter-perseverance-final-spot-1851231371

2024-02-06 22:47:37

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas tries out inventory work, gets better at lifting https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001322

2024-02-02 14:46:58

Cops arrest 17-year-old suspected of hundreds of swattings nationwide https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000672

2024-02-01 15:04:14

A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/a-500-page-book-explores-the-ghosts-monsters-from-japanese-folklore.html

2024-01-31 16:02:49

Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understanding of Planet Formation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-world-denser-than-steel-confounds-our-understanding-of-planet-formation/

2024-01-22 23:30:09

Supersized megalodon was surprisingly slim, but still a ferocious predator. Fresh evidence points to megalodon being longer, more slender than previous depictions. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/megalodon-wasnt-as-chonky-as-a-great-white-shark-experts-say/

2024-01-19 21:09:02

A Massive, Ancient Network of Cities Flourished in the Amazon for 1,000 Years https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/a-massive-ancient-network-of-cities-flourished-in-the-amazon-for-1-000-years

2024-01-06 14:51:16

Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994119

2024-01-03 14:11:07

34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen” https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993353

2023-12-15 15:49:14

MDMA—aka ecstasy—submitted to FDA as part of PTSD therapy https://arstechnica.com/?p=1991296

2023-12-11 22:44:24

Why Reindeer Don't Fly, According to Physics https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-reindeer-dont-fly-according-to-physics

2023-10-07 14:59:16

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped. Records reportedly belong to millions of users who opted in to a relative-search feature. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/private-23andme-user-data-is-up-for-sale-after-online-scraping-spree/

2023-10-05 14:07:13

Gargantuan Straw Creatures Rise from the Fields of Japan’s Annual Rice Harvest https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara-straw-art-festival/

2023-10-03 00:06:02

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech. The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs. https://www.wired.com/story/grace-hopper-celebration-career-fair-men/

2023-09-30 15:42:04

Archaeologists discover ancient sandals buried in a bat cave 6000 years ago. Some basketry from same site is even older, dating back 9,500 years to Mesolithic period. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1972204

2023-09-28 15:15:45

In 1955, the Polio Vaccine Was Considered a Miracle. It Almost Didn’t Happen. The science behind “The Cutter Incident.” https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s5/1955/e5/polio-vaccine-jonas-salk-medical-mystery-global-breakthrough

2023-09-25 22:09:06

Winners of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year (14 photos) https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/09/winners-2023-astronomy-photographer-year/675446/

2023-09-20 15:28:36

Scientists Working in Antarctica Unwittingly Started to Develop a New Accent. “Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support staff who live there for part of the year on a rotational basis.” https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/scientists-working-in-antarctica-unknowingly-started-to-develop-a-new-accent.html

2023-09-19 15:14:51

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-jennifer-doudna-microbiome/

2023-09-15 14:44:43

Doubts Raised About Guy Who Told Mexican Congress “Non-Human Beings” Were Discovered in a Peruvian Mine. I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. :) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/dead-aliens-mexican-government-what.html

2023-09-14 14:00:27

Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a wave of air https://www.newscientist.com/article/2392033-mosquitoes-dodge-efforts-to-swat-them-by-surfing-a-wave-of-air/

2023-09-04 16:48:46

Medieval teachers complaining about their students. "They attend classes but make no effort to learn anything….The expense money which they have from their parents or churches they spend in taverns, conviviality, games and other superfluities, and so they return home empty, without knowledge, conscience, or money." https://www.medievalists.net/2023/09/medieval-teachers-complaining-students/

2023-09-04 15:12:51

Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961446

2023-08-29 20:43:38

Archaeologists in Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Priest's Burial Site https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-in-peru-uncover-3-000-year-old-priests-b-1850783872

2023-08-24 16:00:47

Non-vaccine measures such as social distancing and wearing face masks have been "unequivocally effective" at preventing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to a major report by the UK's Royal Society https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388929-lockdowns-and-face-masks-really-did-help-to-control-covid-19/

2023-08-02 14:04:15

The Atlantic is frying, but so far hurricanes are dying. What’s going on? https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958160

2023-07-18 14:34:25

A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users https://boingboing.net/2023/07/18/a-week-in-threads-has-lost-half-of-its-active-users.html

2023-07-15 17:19:00

Utah boarding school loses license over death of teen in custody and instances of "severe physical neglect" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/15/utah-boarding-school-loses-license-over-death-of-teen-in-custody-and-instances-of-severe-physical-neglect.html

2023-07-10 18:16:49

Review: Exquisite "Drops of God" brings the elite world of wine down to Earth. French writer Quoc Dang Tran's evocative adaptation of the influential manga is a delight. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/07/review-exquisite-drops-of-god-brings-the-world-of-elite-wine-down-to-earth/

2023-07-03 15:35:18

i did my own research and unfortunately said research indicated years of study would be required in order to speak with any sort of authority on this matter http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4068

2023-06-20 22:20:50

Hear a Recently-Discovered 12,000-Year-Old Flute That Musically Mimics the Sound of Raptor Calls https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/hear-a-recently-discovered-12000-year-old-flute-that-musically-mimics-the-sound-of-raptor-calls.html

2023-06-02 14:48:12

Fascinating Macro Footage of Growing Tadpoles https://laughingsquid.com/macro-footage-tadpoles/

2023-05-31 23:43:13

This is the first x-ray taken of a single atom. SX-STM technique enables detection of atom type, simultaneous measurement of its chemical state. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/this-is-the-first-x-ray-taken-of-a-single-atom/
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2023-05-16 14:26:12

Diet sodas are not actually good for your diet, WHO guidance suggests https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939427

2023-05-03 01:55:31

Stay Away From These Flour Products, Unless You Crave Salmonella. A nationwide outbreak of Salmonella has been conclusively tied to Gold Medal Unbleached and Bleached All Purpose Flour, the CDC says. https://gizmodo.com/salmonella-outbreak-gold-medal-flour-recall-cdc-1850396460

2023-04-04 02:57:09

Maker of eye drops linked to deadly outbreak flunks FDA inspection https://arstechnica.com/?p=1928824