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 [Unexplainable Coincidence] Richard Parker was eaten by shipmates. Edgar Allan Poe’s only finished novel, tells a macabre tale of hard-lived sailors driven to terrible extremes. One notorious scene involves four shipwrecked men tossing in the waves, despairing and starving to death. Prompted by the ancient “custom of the sea,” they decide at last to sacrifice one castaway for the benefit of the remainder. A mutineer named Richard Parker is killed and eaten with little hassle and less remorse.Nearly fifty years after Poe wrote this grim tale, life imitated fiction with chilling accuracy when a British cabin boy—remarkably, also called Richard Parker—was killed and eaten by his fellow sailors. 17-year-old Richard Parker and three other crew members set out in 1884 to deliver the British yacht Mignonette to its new owner, an Australian lawyer. The journey from Southampton, England, to Sydney took a dark turn after the yacht was wrecked in a sudden gale and the crew members were marooned in a lifeboat for more than two weeks. Link |
| Monday was Cyber Monday’s twentieth anniversary. It often is the biggest shopping day for retailers all year long. How big is it? According to Adobe Analytics, shoppers dropped more than $13 billion last year. Two bits of advice: After comparison shopping, don’t procrastinate if you find something you want. Sometimes supplies at cut-rate prices are limited. Consumers are also advised to check the fine print regarding returns. Caveat emptor and all that. |
 Routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is no longer recommended for most men, particularly those aged 70 and older, due to concerns about the potential harms outweighing the benefits. Instead, men should discuss their individual risk factors and screening options with their healthcare provider. Link |
| [Python repellent] Your odds of being attacked by an enormous boa constrictor in the Everglades are vastly greater than being mauled by a bear in Florida since we’ve now resumed hunting them, so forget the bear spray and get some Snake-B-Gone. |
 [ICE In The Keys] 12 detained in Florida Keys amid increasing immigration enforcement. U.S. Border Patrol agents stage for an operation in the Winn Dixie parking lot in Key Largo Friday. Customs said the 12 people agents took into custody were illegally in the U.S. from countries including Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. The agency said the people were taken to the Border Patrol’s station in the Middle Keys city of Marathon to be processed for removal from the country. I’m guessing BPK might be next. Link |
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| “Gays and lesbians think life begins in the butthole.” Well, that’s just silly, ‘cause everyone knows that anal sex is how lawyers reproduce. |
 I don’t believe the snake video. Please consider discarding the BS AI generated videos such as the lady bludgeons snake eating chicken. November 21. These videos are not only annoying, but they mislead the gullible. Video |
| Death toll from Indonesia floods passes 750 as one million evacuated. About 3.2 million people have been affected by the floods, while 2,600 have been injured and 504 people remain missing. Link |
 [The Ant Cure] The surprising superpower of ants and how it could unlock cancer’s secrets. Ants are amazing creatures, especially when it comes to sniffing out that tiny crumb from your picnic a mile away. But what if their incredible sense of smell held a hidden clue, not just for finding food, but for learning about diseases like cancer? A new study suggests it might. Link |
| What will enter the public domain in 2026] In our advent-style calendar you’ll find our top pick of what lies in store for 2026. Each day, as we move through December, we’ll open a new window to reveal our highlights. By public domain day on January 1st, they will all be unveiled — look out for a special blogpost from us on that day. ~Works by people who died in 1955, for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America) ~Works by people who died in 1975, for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia) ~Films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1930 for the United States. Link |
 [Toys] Who didn’t have one of these when you were kids?Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar boom, when plastic molding and mass production transformed how American kids played. That shift opened the door for more dynamic toys, and Meyer seized the moment with designs that would stay on shelves for decades. Link |
| [Cyber Security App] India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app. India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates. In tackling a recent surge of cyber crime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking the use of stolen phones for fraud or promoting state-backed government service apps. Link |
 I’ve concluded that those who “hate” Christmas hate it because they don’t have presents for all those they’d like to give presents too. Christmas is about giving and if you don’t have anything to give, it’s depressing. |
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 [Snorting Pine Trees] Why smelling a pine tree can instantly lift your mood. Pine contains compounds called terpenes, like α-pinene and limonene, which are touted in wellness circles for their stress-reducing and mood-boosting properties. Pine is one of those scents that can change a room, and your mood, in an instant. One whiff, and suddenly you’re transported to a world of woodsy snowscapes, twinkling lights, a fresh-cut tree shedding needles in your childhood living room. The scent feels soothing and joyful…but why? Turns out the answer has less to do with what’s inside the tree, and everything to do with what’s inside us. Link |
| [AIDS Cure] Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant. A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free. Link |
 [Frog Orgy] Images capturing the brutality and beauty of nature. Link |
| [Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard] When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map exactly once. All known methods for solving this “traveling salesperson problem” are painfully slow on maps with many cities, and researchers suspect there’s no way to do better. But nobody knows how to prove it. Link |
 The Flight Wall is an LED wall which shows live information of flights going by your window. This is the open source version with some basic guides to the panels, mounting them together, data services, and code. Check out our viral build Video.Don’t feel like building one? Check out the offical product: theflightwall.com |
| Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn’t the first ambient album, it was the first album to be explicitly labelled as ‘ambient music’. Music for Airports was released in 1979, though some sources cite 1978 due to its copyright date. It marked a continuation of Eno’s experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, a process he’d begun four years prior with 1975’s Discreet Music. Link |
 [Free Today] Deep Pink Plumeria (Frangipani) cuttings next to the street at 21023 7th Ave, Cudjoe Key (mm 21) TODAY!Yard trash comes about 11 AM Wednesday. If you prefer another color, let me know. We’re trimming all of the trees. Cindy 305-744-0558. Put the cut end in moist soil; it will make its own roots! |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 12/2/25 at 8:21 am. |