The USPS has unveiled a new fleet of Next Generation Delivery Vehicles designed by Oshkosh Defense
The Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) is bringing a major overhaul to the USPS fleet with a host of new features designed for efficiency, safety, and future adaptability. Unlike the aging Grumman LLVs, the NGDV offers both gasoline-powered and battery-electric variants, with options for front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, allowing for more versatility across different delivery routes.
The new truck is significantly larger, providing up to 155 cubic feet of cargo space, making it easier for carriers to handle high mail volumes. Visibility and safety have been vastly improved with a 360-degree camera system, automatic emergency braking, and collision avoidance technology—a huge leap forward from the nearly 40-year-old fleet still in use.
Another game-changer is air conditioning, something mail carriers have never had before in their trucks. The vehicle’s right-hand drive layout remains, but with a higher ceiling, allowing carriers to stand while sorting mail inside.
Nordic leaders met up for a meeting at the Danish leader’s home
80 Year old Robert Dinero with his 10 month old baby
How companies are advertising in Canada these days..
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht leaving prison after being pardoned. Spent over 11 years in prison.
U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for operating the dark web marketplace that facilitated over $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.
Arrested in 2013 and sentenced in 2015, Ulbricht’s case became a focal point for debates on government overreach and cryptocurrency regulation.
Trump, fulfilling a campaign pledge, announced the “full and unconditional” pardon on his social media platform, calling the prosecution politically motivated. Ulbricht was released from federal prison in Arizona following the announcement.
His conviction included charges of drug distribution, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering, with prosecutors alleging he solicited murders to protect the site—though no killings were confirmed.
Ulbricht admitted to creating Silk Road but claimed he later relinquished control. His release marks a shift in U.S. policy on crypto-related prosecutions and was supported by the Libertarian Party, which advocated for his clemency as part of its push for drug policy reform.
6 people have their own lock and each person can open the gate with their own lock.
In Australia, your tax return document shows where your tax money was spent
Italian police drove a Lamborghini Huracan 500km from Padua to Rome in just 2 hours, averaging 233km/h, to deliver 2 donor kidneys for life-saving surgery.
The kidney transport involved two separate deliveries on different days. One kidney was transported from Padua to Modena, and the other from Modena to Rome.
A helicopter wasn’t used because the transfer was planned well in advance and wasn’t an urgent, life-saving case. Helicopters are reserved for critical emergencies where every second counts. By coordinating the transport ahead of time and using alternative methods, they ensured that helicopters remained available for truly time-sensitive, life-saving situations
The flags are all the people that died on Mount Everest.
Since the first recorded attempts to summit Mount Everest, over 300 climbers have lost their lives trying to reach or descend from the world’s highest peak. The exact number fluctuates as new deaths occur each year, but the fatality rate has remained relatively steady at around 1% of climbers attempting the ascent.
The causes of death vary—many succumb to avalanches, falls, exposure, altitude sickness, or exhaustion in the infamous death zone above 26,000 feet, where oxygen levels are dangerously low.
Some bodies have been recovered, but most remain on the mountain, frozen in time, serving as grim reminders of Everest’s unforgiving nature.
Despite improved gear, weather forecasting, and guided expeditions, the mountain continues to claim lives, with record-high deaths reported in recent climbing seasons due to overcrowding, inexperience, and extreme weather conditions.
Nurses tie two gloves filled with hot water to stimulate the human touch and to comfort the isolated patients.
Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain (fruit fly) for the first time ever
Scientists have mapped every neuron in an adult animal’s brain for the first time, charting nearly 140,000 neurons and ~50 million connections in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
Published in Nature, this breakthrough enhances our understanding of how brains process information, drive behavior, and store memories. Despite its small size, the fly brain shares key similarities with human brains, including dopamine use for reward learning and circuit structures for vision and navigation.
Using advanced sequencing, researchers identified over 8,000 cell types, highlighting the complexity of even simple neural systems. This map lays the groundwork for studying how experiences shape brain circuits and may reveal universal principles of neural wiring across species. As lead researcher Philipp Schlegel notes, “Any brain we can truly understand helps us understand all brains.”
Requirements for being a flight attendant in 1954
rare opportunity to travel the world and work in an exciting, high-status industry. However, the strict qualifications imposed by airlines reveal how deeply the profession was shaped by societal expectations of femininity, attractiveness, and subservience. Airlines weren’t just hiring employees—they were curating an image of elegance, beauty, and deference that aligned with the era’s ideals of the “perfect woman.” Physical appearance was scrutinized down to weight, figure, leg shape, skin clarity, and even dental work, ensuring that flight attendants exuded a polished, almost model-like presence.
Marital status was non-negotiable—stewardesses had to be single and would be dismissed if they married, reinforcing the idea that their primary value was youth and availability rather than career longevity. Even personality traits were controlled; they were expected to maintain an “even temper” and be “willing and anxious to please,” emphasizing their role as caretakers and hostesses rather than skilled professionals. These qualifications not only restricted who could enter the field but also ensured that those who did would conform to a highly gendered and limited vision of professionalism, where their worth was just as much about their looks and demeanor as their ability to do the job.
The dog on the John of Nepomuk statue at Charles Bridge has turned golden because tourists constantly touch it for good luck, wearing away the patina and exposing the shiny bronze beneath.
This ~1947 Lone Ranger Atomic “Bomb” ring contained radioactive Polonium-210. It was distributed by Kix cereal in exchange for 15 cents and a box top.
Back in the late 1940s, kids could send away for all sorts of wild cereal-box prizes, but few were as unintentionally reckless as the Lone Ranger Atomic “Bmb” Ring* from 1947. Marketed as a thrilling, top-secret gadget that let kids “see atoms in action,” the ring contained a small but genuinely radioactive amount of Polonium-210. The idea was that the radiation would interact with a tiny strip of zinc sulfide inside the ring, creating a faint glow—pure atomic-age novelty. Of course, at the time, the long-term dangers of radiation exposure weren’t fully grasped, and no one thought twice about giving kids a toy that literally contained a decaying radioactive element. While the amount of Polonium-210 was low, it was still potent enough that if you had a stash of these rings today, they’d need to be handled as hazardous material. Just one more reminder that mid-century optimism about atomic power sometimes veered into What were they thinking? territory.
Michelangelo’s 16th century grocery list. He illustrated it because the servant was illiterate
