All the Adventure, a Fraction of the Cost: The D.I.Y. Orient Expresswww.nytimes.com The luxury version of this classic train journey costs almost $50,000, but for $1,000 or less, you can book the rail trip from Paris to Istanbul yourself.
James Kelleher
Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder.
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Bird flu snapshot: Live H5N1 virus grown from raw milk samples as Delaware moves to legalize its salewww.statnews.com While there have not been any confirmed human cases of bird flu transmission as a result of raw milk consumption, health officials worry it’s just a matter of time.
A slab of butter, believed to be hundreds of years old, discovered on Donegal farmwww.thejournal.ie Historians say that the slab of butter could possibly date back to the Bronze Age.
Revolution remark from president of Heritage Foundation, source of Project 2025, raises alarmwww.msnbc.com Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts raised new concerns with a cryptic threat about a "second American Revolution.”
One year in, Threads hasn’t overtaken X. Meta still thinks it can.wapo.st The goal is to build “a less angry place for people to share their ideas,” Instagram Threads chief Adam Mosseri says. Some users aren’t happy about that.
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy diskswww.reuters.com Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.