WEIRD FACTS
Vintage woman – Shutterstock – By Debra Kelly/Updated: 2020 Jul 14 – History is filled with episodes that prove mankind is just sort of making everything up as it goes. There’s no shortage of things that can kill us or do horrible, terrible …
ThermBot displays readings in Fahrenheit and Celsius – 2020 Aug 12 – It’s never been more important to be able to quickly and accurately take your temperature, and the ThermBot provides that capability in a device that is smaller and smarter than other …
Open windows are the simplest way to increase air flow in a room. Justin Paget / Digital Vision via Getty Images – Author Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder 2020 Aug 10 – The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission …
Learn to protect yourself. Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com – Author Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University 2019 Jul 23 – High-profile data breaches at companies like British …
The complicated lineage of our ubiquitous decks. The standard 52-card deck (54 with these guys) is common, but not universal. Toni Reed/Unsplash – by Dan Nosowitz, 2020 Jul 13 – The history of playing cards is, in one major way, just like the …
Authors Lorrie Cranor, Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Hana Habib, Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University 2020 Jul 30 – Many people look for more privacy when they browse …
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds. – A woman drinks as children cool off in a public fountain in Milano, Italia, on 31 July. 2020 is set to be hottest or second hottest year …
The federal government has used military-grade border patrol drones like this one to monitor protests in US cities. Jonathan Cutrer/Flickr, CC BY-SA – By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of San Diego 2020 Jul 28 – Drones of all sizes …
Are cats really to blame for the worldwide loss of biodiversity? Dzurag/iStock via Getty Images Plus – 2020 Jul 30 – Authors: William S. Lynn, Research Scientist, Clark University Arian Wallach, Lecturer, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, …
Are there places in the body where SARS-CoV-2 can hide from the immune system? fotograzia / Getty Images – By William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia – 2020 Jul 31 – As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered …
