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SIM hijacking — or SIM swapping — is an attack where a fraudster contacts your cell phone provider and convinces them to switch your account to a phone that they control. Since your smartphone often serves as a security measure…

ift.tt/38suP8m In a big plastic box at the top of my linen closet is a ballgown I never have a reason to wear. It’s pale blue with a hint of silver, shiny, bustling, and trimmed with ornate beadwork, reminiscent of…

ift.tt/3apI7nz FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007 – St. Louis’ own, The Schwag, plays the farewell show to a sold out crowd at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis. Photo by Becca Young It was Jan. 19, 2007, that St. Louis music institution…

ift.tt/2G5lMhm At the center of our galaxy lies a region where roughly 10 million stars are packed into just 1 parsec (3.25 light-years) of space. At the center of this lies the supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A*,…

ift.tt/3689aAo “The impression we derive from a book, depends much less upon its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.” In the final years of the eighteenth century, the radical political philosopher…

ift.tt/2NBw5hq From downtown to Creve Coeur, the St. Louis area is in the middle of a makeover. There are new developments and districts popping up all over the map.… via ift.tt/37aY2Eo ift.tt/2D9paZa

ift.tt/37cBByR Thanks to our good friends at Oceanside Photo and Telescope, our livestreaming telescope is back online. I featured a couple of quick pics I took with the telescope during a test stream on Twitch Sunday night. I also answered…

ift.tt/3aklu48 A sensorial serenade to the art of awareness. Looking back on the most important things I have learned about life, I keep returning to a central paradox of our culture: We know that the flower doesn’t go from bud…

ift.tt/2tnXzjp Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here.   Six of the remaining Democratic candidates met in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday night for the final…

ift.tt/3a40AWR The information-processing capabilities of the brain are often reported to reside in the trillions of connections that wire its neurons together. But over the past few decades, mounting research has quietly shifted some of the attention to individual neurons,…

ift.tt/2Rcq5MU Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and…

ift.tt/38a2e7h “Evil sunrise” over Qatar. Photographer Elias Chasiotis Email eliasastro@yahoo.com Location of photo Al Wakrah, Qatar. Date/Time of photo 12/26/2019, sunrise. Equipment Sony a7s ii, Sigma…

ift.tt/2No0HCO I edit a good amount of technical articles about the web, and there is a tendency for authors to be super broad in their opening sentence, like "What we’re able to do on the web has expanded greatly over…

ift.tt/2Tnq9vQ Posted January 12, 2020 at 10:36 am Hey! Me and Kelly are working on a project, and we started a little twitter account where we post Weird Stories from Space. Posted January 11, 2020 at 07:49 am Posted…

ift.tt/36N57uB Sustainable designs seem to be taking over the world by storm. And no wonder, with climate change running rampant and adversely affecting the earth, being eco-friendly has never been more imminent. A sustainable design that truly caught my attention…

ift.tt/2NgMgR2 Clarendon You’re too determined to be happy all the time to entertain even a fleeting awareness of your finite existence. Tell us when you’re ready for a visit to reality, Pollyanna. Gingham Some people gravitate toward things that make…

ift.tt/2FDGBQT Dark, sinuous lines float in a blue sky. It seems straight out of sci-fi or fantasy—a fantastical spacecraft transitioning into its cloaking shield, or a mythical beast in flight. In reality, it is cranes at Gallocanta Lake in Spain,…