WEIRD FACTS
Dozen of motorists report error as company’s CEO, Elon Musk, apologises on Twitter. Elon Musk said Tesla was taking measures to ensure the problem does not happen again. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images – Reuters Last modified on 2021 Nov 20 – Hundreds of …
The first Intel 4004 chip. Intel View 12 Images By David Szondy 2021 Nov 19 – This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel’s 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, …
A woman looks at a non-fungible token digital art display in New York City in September 2021. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images – By Brian Mittendorf, Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University and Sean Stein Smith, Assistant Professor …
Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes. ‘Kyle Rittenhouse has just been acquitted after literally killing two people and injuring a third at a protest.’ Photograph: Reuters – By Cas Mudde Last modified on 2021 Nov …
We live in a universe of extremes. Image courtesy NASA.Gov – Popular Science By Donavyn Coffey – If the sun is hot how is outer space cold ? — Jacoby Brissett (@JBrissett12), 2019 Jul 10 – Why is space so cold if the …
In a definitive new documentary, a deeper look at the much-loved movie star provides more insight into ‘one of the greatest rags-to-riches stories ever told.’ Charlie Chaplin was ‘chameleonic in the way he reflected back to people what they wanted’ Photograph: Footage File, …
More than 500 people were hospitalized after powerful thunderstorms drove scorpions from their burrows and into residential houses in the city of Aswan. Mohamed Hamdy Boshta holds a scorpion, one of many that he hunts on Egyptian deserts and shores to extract their …
Santa Fe Trail 1821-2021 Illustration by Ronald Kil Home About the Artists Ronald Kil Doug Holdread Santa Fe Trail 200 In 1821, the Santa Fe Trail was opened as a commercial route between Missouri and New Mexico by William Becknell and his party …
Betty Crocker’s first official portrait, on the left, from 1936. Her most recent portrait, from 1996, is on the right. BettyCrocker.com By Elizabeth A. Blake, Assistant Professor of English, Clark University 2021 Nov 10 – Though she celebrates her 100th birthday this …
Thousands of the satellites orbiting Earth are small – like this cubical satellite seen here being released from the International Space Station. NASA, CC BY-NC – By Supriya Chakrabarti, Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2021 Sep 17 – – It seems …
