WEIRD FACTS
Plastic Waste Makers index identifies those driving climate crisis with virgin polymer production. A woman collects recyclable plastics washed up on the beach in Bali, Indonesia. Photograph: Agung Parameswara/Getty Images – By Sandra Laville Last modified on 2021 May 18 – Twenty companies …
Confederate currency had images of enslaved people, historical figures and mythical deities. elycefeliz/Flickr, CC BY-ND – By Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University 2021 May 03 – Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If …
Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally cut down, leaving one stump with a face carved into it. A menacing face chainsawed into the stump of a poached Douglas fir not far from the Mount Prevost Main Line …
Against all odds, 28 percent of Scottish people still use it. How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language – by Dan Nosowitz 2018 Sep 28 – Over the past few decades, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental …
In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays. An aerial photo taken with a drone shows solar panels installed on a private home in Round Lake Heights, Illinois. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA …
The black market for stolen personal information motivates most data breaches. aleksey-martynyuk/iStock via Getty Images – By Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University 2021 May 13 – Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are …
Messerschmitt KR-202 Sport. Messerschmitt Werke – By C.C. Weiss 2021 May 03 – A few years back, a German team resurrected the adorable Messerschmitt microcar as an electric-assist two-man Velomobile. At the time, some people wondered why it didn’t just skip the pedals, drop …
Biden administration scrambles to avoid shortages after Colonial Pipeline targeted in worst-ever attack on US infrastructure. Holding tanks at a Colonial Pipeline facility in New Jersey. Photograph: Colonial Pipeline/Reuters – Associated Press Last modified on Monday, 2021 May 10 – The Biden administration …
Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Courtesy of Crater of Diamonds State Park – By Katherine LaGrave 2021 May 05 – Share this Article …
The UK’s Royal Marines put the Gravity jet suit to “very successful” use in ship boarding demo exercises. Gravity Industries – By Loz Blain 2021 May 04 – Jet suits, jetpacks, jetboards … The new range of crazy personal flight devices all share some …
