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Holdout Clancy Juror Lawyers Up, Goes Into Hiding

Holdout Clancy Juror Lawyers Up, Goes Into Hiding

Published by Jenni Sidey

Attorney Edward Paltzik said Thursday that he is representing Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who would not agree that Clancy was not criminally responsible for strangling her three children in January 2023. According to Paltzik, Desronvil has relocated to an undisclosed location in northern New England after his refusal to join the rest of the jury made him the target of a mob. “I can now confirm that I am representing the courageous and heroic lone holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy Trial,” he wrote in a post on X. “Please pray for him and help us protect him.” Paltzik described Desronvil as an “American Hero and Champion of Justice” who “loves the United States of America as the greatest country in the world,” and “cherishes our sacred Constitution as the pinnacle of human liberty.” He also added that Desronvil supports “our amazing leader, President Donald J. Trump, as a fellow defender of common-sense, liberty, and sanity.” Paltzik also promised consequences for whoever came after his client, …

Gmail’s threading feature is hiding your replies — and you probably haven’t noticed

Gmail’s threading feature is hiding your replies — and you probably haven’t noticed

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Gmail groups your emails into threads by default. It seems like a small thing for getting an uncluttered inbox. But that same feature can also quietly bury replies, split conversations you thought were intact, and make you miss an important update. I didn’t notice how much the Conversation view shaped my inbox until I started working for a larger team with near-simultaneous email back-and-forth. Threading isn’t broken, but it’s not perfect either. That’s why I have started paying attention to its few quirks for cleaner communication instead of just accepting them. Related 5 Gmail settings I changed to finally reclaim my workday These Gmail features can help you stop replying instantly. Threading hides replies you already sent Your own mails can get buried in the stack Saikat Basu/MakeUseOf Gmail collapses old messages in a thread into snippets, so you have to click open each one to see who said what and when. That includes your own replies. If you’re CC’d instead of the primary recipient, your response can sink further down the stack, making it …

Fraudster who used elderly woman’s card to splash out found hiding in cupboard

Fraudster who used elderly woman’s card to splash out found hiding in cupboard

Published by Sam Flores

A fraudster who used a stolen bank card to splash out on clothes, cigarettes and fast food was found hiding – in a kitchen cupboard.Siobhan Perry and mum Kathlene Perry were arrested after being caught on CCTV going on a splurge in Maidstone, Kent.Police say Kathlene, 61, took the card from a woman in her 90s while pretending to be her carer.She was charged with 14 offences of fraud, burglary and a breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order.Credit: Kent Police Source link

The unexpected science hiding in Dante’s ‘Inferno’

The unexpected science hiding in Dante’s ‘Inferno’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is one of the most famous Italian literary works, if not the most famous. The medieval narrative poem is divided into three sections—Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise)—and chronicles Dante’s  fictional travels through the three regions. However, Marshall University English professor Timothy Burbery, says that Dante is more than just an author and character. He’s also an accidental geophysicist. Simply put, Burbery argues that Dante’s Inferno demonstrates an intuitive understanding of certain aspects of geophysics and geology long before they were formally discovered by scientists. Burbery points to two examples that particularly emphasize this idea of anticipated science: a flight on a strange creature and Satan’s fall from grace. The devil fell from space In the poem, Dante is guided through Hell, which the Roman poet Virgil described as a series of nine concentric circles. At one point, the duo fly on the back of a hybrid creature called Geryon to get from …

I found 50GB of ghost files on my SSD — this is where they were hiding

I found 50GB of ghost files on my SSD — this is where they were hiding

Published by Miika Tikkanen

If you’ve been seeing your C: drive shrinking on its own, you’re not going crazy. Windows and its programs love to set up folders and start filling a cache of data that eats up space like anything on your drive. The worst part? Getting rid of this data isn’t as simple as selecting it and hitting delete. Windows itself can hold back as much as 7 GB on your SSD, but these so-called ghost files created by installed programs on your PC are much worse. Thankfully, with a free tool and some cautious deletion, you can chase these ghosts straight out of Windows. Related You don’t need a bigger SSD if you do this with your storage Free up SSD space without spending a dime. Visualizing storage to uncover what Windows hides Windows’ built-in File Explorer is nowhere near as effective if you’re looking to find hidden files. In this case, using a tool like WizTree makes more sense. It’s a free disk analyzer for Windows that’s embarrassingly fast compared to File Explorer. Instead of …

If life exists on Mars, it’s likely hiding — or maybe sleeping

If life exists on Mars, it’s likely hiding — or maybe sleeping

Published by Jenni Sidey

With the latest detection of organic compounds by the Curiosity rover, the case for past life on Mars becomes stronger than ever, as suggested in a recent paper by Alexander Pavlov in the journal Astrobiology. And that lends additional credence to an even more exciting idea — that living organisms may still exist on Mars today. If that’s true, what form should we expect them to take? And where should we search for them? The planet’s surface is a brutal environment for any known type of organism, with huge temperature swings (from approximately -150 °C to 25 °C), virtually no water, and high doses of radiation. Yet we know from our own planet how resilient and adaptive life can be. Besides, this hostile environment didn’t always exist on Mars. So if life once thrived on the Red Planet, where did it go? Option 1: Retreat! We know from half a century of robotic Mars exploration that the planet once had watery environments similar to those on Earth’s surface, probably including shallow lakes, streams, and deeper-water …

The Movie Star Hiding in Plain Sight

The Movie Star Hiding in Plain Sight

Published by José Betancourt

Look at a list of the highest-grossing actors of all time, and you’ll see a lot of familiar names. The group includes franchise-hopping performers such as Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Zoe Saldaña; legacy A-listers such as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks; and one 74-year-old Swede who has built a bustling, storied career doing a little bit of everything. Stellan Skarsgård, who earned his first Academy Award nomination this year for his role in the Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s family drama Sentimental Value, has been on our screens for decades: He began acting in the late 1960s, before establishing himself as a Hollywood fixture in the mid-’90s. Yet only now has Skarsgård become more than just one of cinema’s most reliable players—he’s also one of its most beloved stars. The reason for his heightened level of fame could be any number of things. Is it because he’s the dad of an army of talented children, including the actors Alexander, Gustaf, and Bill, who have all settled their own beachheads in American culture? Or is …

The oldest-known humpback whale recording was hiding in an archive

The oldest-known humpback whale recording was hiding in an archive

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1970, a single record would change history. It wasn’t the latest album from The Who or Rolling Stones, but the musical stylings of a pod of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Songs of the Humpback Whale would go multi-platinum, whale songs were included on the Voyager Golden Record sent into space, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed by 1972. However, listening in on the humpback whale goes back even further than the far out days of the 1970s. While digitizing archives, a group of researchers and archivists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts have now identified what may be the earliest preserved recording of a whale. The humpback song was captured on March 7, 1949, in the warm Atlantic waters near Bermuda. However, the team did not exactly know what they were hearing and the recording was never properly archived. “Preserving data when it is created is an investment in the future of science,” Ashley …

Windows 11’s most useful menu is hiding in plain sight

Windows 11’s most useful menu is hiding in plain sight

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Windows 11 hides one of its most useful menus right where your mouse already goes dozens of times a day. It’s called the Power User menu, also known as the WinX menu or hidden Start menu. It’s a simple menu that gives you access to almost every useful built-in tool there is on Windows. This menu is all about speed and convenience. Instead of searching for tools or cluttering your desktop with shortcuts, you can access everything you need from one easy-to-use list. One right-click is all it takes The thing about the Power User menu is that it’s been around forever, yet it’s still easy to miss. In fact, most people discover it purely by accident. To access this menu, you simply need to right-click the Start icon on the taskbar. If you prefer using keyboard shortcuts, press Win + X instead. Once you do, you’ll see a list of options that includes everything from Device Manager and File Explorer to Terminal and Disk Management tools. The idea behind this is simple. It saves …

The Loneliness Hiding Behind the Filipino Smile

The Loneliness Hiding Behind the Filipino Smile

Published by Jenni Sidey

When the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health crisis in 2023, many assumed severe loneliness primarily afflicted isolated individuals in urban Global North cities. Yet some of the world’s loneliest people live in a country known for packed family homes, vibrant fiestas, and warm hospitality. In the Philippines—where extended families share meals daily, church communities gather weekly, and people spend hours each day on social media—57% of citizens report feeling very or fairly lonely, according to Meta-Gallup’s 2023 Global State of Social Connections report, the second-highest rate globally. Separate surveys suggest Filipino youth are among the loneliest in Southeast Asia. To understand this paradox, an eight-country qualitative study by the Annecy Behavioral Science Lab interviewed 50 Filipinos across age groups and loneliness levels. The findings reveal how a society celebrated for bayanihan—communal unity—can also produce deep, if often invisible loneliness. The Performance of Connection “Disconnection is the unwillingness to connect anymore,” one participant explained. “Loneliness is invisible…we are good at hiding loneliness.” That invisibility is culturally shaped. Filipino social life is guided by …