Monthly Archives: August 2022

Former Hand of Fate devs unveil “gritty” turn-based superhero RPG Capes

Spitfire Interactive, a new studio established by key members of the team that worked on acclaimed deck-building dungeon-crawler Hand of Fate, has unveiled Capes, a “gritty” new turn-based superhero RPG coming to Steam next year. Capes takes place in a world where, during the Golden Age of superheroes, the villains finally managed to get the…

RFK Jr’s anti-vax group finally permabanned from Instagram, Facebook

Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup / Staff | Getty Images News) Yesterday, the anti-vaccine group the Children’s Health Defense celebrated the spread of poliovirus in New York, mocking health officials spreading awareness that polio is vaccine-preventable. Today, CHD reports that the group was also permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram yesterday. A screenshot of Meta’s notification…

Blind scientists adapted a centuries-old art to make data that can be touched and seen

A lithophane of an SDS-PAGE gel, a laboratory technique to study proteins. Jordan Koone and Bryan Shaw Before photography, there was the lithophane.  It’s a thin slice of porcelain or plastic, adorned with a shallow engraving. Hold it up to a light, and the translucent relief turns into a shadowy image. Europeans first began making…