WEIRD FACTS
Image of snow covering Hawaiian peaks courtesy https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89356/snow-capped-summits-in-hawaii – By Ryan Adamson, AccuWeather meteorologist Updated 2021 Dec 03 – A potent storm system has begun to wallop the Hawaiian Islands with gusty winds and widespread flooding rain, with blizzard conditions expected at some …
In first on-camera interview since accidental film-set shooting, actor says there is only one question: ‘where did the live round come from?’ “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never,” said Alec Baldwin of the Rust …
Vegan leather alternative isn’t just the hot fashion must-have – it could teach us about consumption and waste. Grown in trays, mycelium is engineered to look and feel like calfskin or sheepskin. Photograph: Carla Tramullas – By Jess Cartner-Morley @JessC_M 2021 Dec 02 …
This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. Niall Kennedy/Flickr, CC BY-NC – By David Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College 2021 Dec 01 – The U.S. Constitution requires that a …
A team of scientists has created a strange phase of matter called a time crystal in Google’s Sycamore quantum processor. Google Quantum AI – By Michael Irving 2021 Nov 30 – Time crystals sound like something a video game character would be trying to …
Lance Oditt / Friends of Pando, Author provided – By Richard Elton Walton, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biology, Newcastle University Updated 2021 Nov 24 – In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a …
Only about 1 in 5 computer scientists are women. Rachel Murray/Getty Images for MGA Entertainment – By Allison Master, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Houston and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington and Sapna Cheryan, Professor of Psychology, University …
The ABC News correspondent offers a sobering glimpse of a man unfit to govern and the chaos wreaked by an ego unable to grasp its own ineptitude. Donald Trump: ‘An existential fraud who admits his unease by referring to himself in the third …
America’s iconic orange cracker turns 100. Cheez-It’s 11-month shelf life is impressive, but so is the company’s history. Photo by mikemarschke/Getty Images – By Leo DeLuca Smithsonian Magazine – Dayton’s historic Edgemont neighborhood is cocooned inside a crook in the Great Miami River, …
Zeva’s one-person eVTOL aircraft: a tail-sitting flying saucer design with some interesting advantages. Zeva Aero View 8 Images – By Loz Blain 2021 Nov 23 – Zeva is deadly serious about bringing this tail-sitting eVTOL flying saucer to market as a one-person air taxi, …
