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- This map shows what your city's climate will feel like in 60 years
This map helps answer the question āwhat will my cityās climate feel like in 60 years?ā. By selecting your city of interest this OSM-based map will show you what current location has the most similar climate to that forecast for 2080.
- A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time
What do you think?
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
- Floor796floor796.com Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.
Most of the characters are clickable: you can find out what kind of character and follow the link to the source. Non-clickable characters are fictional.
- The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War and 2 billion people ā a quarter of humanity ā live in places affected by such conflict.press.un.org With Highest Number of Violent Conflicts Since Second World War, United Nations Must Rethink Efforts to Achieve, Sustain Peace, Speakers Tell Security Council | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Against a backdrop of the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War and a consequent, pervasive sense of insecurity around the world, the United Nations must rethink its efforts to achieve sustainable peace, the Security Council heard today, as speakers presented suggestions to ...
A sad fact. I didn't realize it is this bad. Currently it is mostly escalation after escalation. What way out is there?
- Ships with legs!
Ships used for building offshore windfarms. Some have legs for raising up off the ocean floor
- The Sea-Based X-Band Radar being transported by ship
The radar can detect airborne ICBM warheads up to 2500 miles away.
- The 'Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady' Is Selling Greetings on Cameo for $25gizmodo.com The 'Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady' Is Selling Greetings on Cameo for $25
One of the Internet's biggest memes of the year is determined to make lemonade out of the Wonka-style lemons she was given.
- Waterlogged soils can give hurricanes new life after they arrive on landwww.sciencenews.org Waterlogged soils can give hurricanes new life after they arrive on land
New studies show that the long-hypothesized ābrown ocean effectā is real, helping to refuel 2018ās Hurricane Florence and other storms after landfall.
Once a hurricane makes landfall, itās usually the beginning of the end for the storm. But a tropical cyclone passing over warm, waterlogged ground can get a jolt of energy that refuels its fury, researchers reported in January at the American Meteorological Societyās meeting in Baltimore.
- When is forgetting normal ā and when is it worrisome? A neuroscientist weighs in
One of the fascinating things about sleep is we tend to think, oh, nothing's happening. I'm not getting anything done. But your brain is hugely at work. There are all these different stages of sleep where you can see these symphony of waves, where different parts of the brain are talking to each other, essentially. And so, we know for a fact that some of these stages of sleep, what happens is the brain will flush out toxins, like the amyloid protein that can build up over the course of a day. So just by virtue of that function, sleep is very important. But then on top of it, what we can see is that the neurons that were active during a particular experience, have come back alive during sleep. And so there seems to be some processing of memories that happen during sleep, and that the processing of memories can sometimes lead to some parts of the memory being strengthened, or sometimes you're better able to integrate what happened recently with things that happened in the past. And so, sleep scientist Matt Walker likes to say that sleep converts memory into wisdom, for instance.
- Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secretswww.atlasobscura.com Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
Find the Easter eggsāor the naked lady.
Now thereās two words you donāt often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even āGerman humorā produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden is kind of its thing. Find it and laugh. Or donāt, and the jokeās on you!
That evidence, as it turns out, is cartographic. The Swiss Federal Office of National Topography, Swisstopo for short, is a decidedly serious institution. Many serious thingsātime and money, for startersādepend on the accuracy of its maps. In the case of its mountain maps, actual lives hang in the balance. Yet in decades past, the austere instituteās maps have served as the canvas for a series of in-jokes among its more fun-loving cartographers.
- The (history of) spice must flowresobscura.substack.com The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
One of the most intriguing objects housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York is a container for something that few people have ever heard of: the lapis de Goa, or āGoa stone.ā
Goa stones were a compound of gold, crushed gemstones, herbs, bezoars, and other exotic substances popular in the 1690-1750 period. Like the bezoars they imitated, they were thought to offer a powerful protection against poisoning. Tiny flakes would be shaved off and consumed (I picture them being dropped in wine glasses) by wealthy consumers in India and Europe. As you can no doubt tell from the incredibly lavish decoration of this particular Goa stone container, they were extremely valuable.
- Drone video shows graffiti covering luxury high-rise in LAwww.bbc.com Drone video shows graffiti covering luxury high-rise in LA
Police say 27 floors were painted after over a dozen people entered the abandoned complex last week.
It almost looks like those tempera paintings on windows we did in grade school. Also, why are they empty? Don't they have a homeless problem.
- FAA Aviation Mapswww.beautifulpublicdata.com FAA Aviation Maps
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administrationās aviation maps.
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administrationās (FAA) aviation maps. Intended for pilots, the FAA publishes free detailed maps of the entire U.S. airspace, and detailed maps of airports and their surroundings and updates them frequently. The density of the critical information layered on these maps is staggering, and it is a miracle that pilots can easily decipher these mapsā at a glance. But they can.
- A puzzling illness paralyzed US kids every other yearāuntil it didnātarstechnica.com A puzzling illness paralyzed US kids every other yearāuntil it didnāt
Researchers braced for a surge in 2022 that never cameāand no one knows why.
2022 was the bad year that wasn'tāat least for a mysterious paralyzing condition in children.
In the decade before, hundreds of young, healthy kids in the US abruptly felt their limbs go weak. Debilitating paralysis set in. In recent years, around half of affected children required intensive care. About a quarter needed mechanical ventilation. A few died, and many others appear to have permanent weakness and paralysis.
- The Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2024www.visualcapitalist.com The Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2024
This graphic shows the world's most valuable brands, from big tech giants to battery makers powering green technology.
Together, the 100 most valuable brands in the world are worth more than $5 trillion.
Brands play an important role in driving shareholder value, yet pinpointing how much a brand is worth can be challenging. Investments in brand could pay dividends for many decades, but because those financial benefits are fairly open to interpretation, most financial regulators donāt usually accept brand assets on balance sheets.
To look at it another way, Apple is missing one of its most valuable assets on its financial reportingāa brand worth $516.6 billion.
This visualization ranks the top 100 brands by brand value, based on the annual global ranking from Brand Finance.
- Whatās Inside This Crater in Madagascar?
Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar thereās a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris ā and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, thereās a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.
When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there?
- This wasp is half the size of an amoeba and its microscopic brain has a trick up its sleeve..
> These wasps are not single-celled organisms though, and their brains alone contain 4600 neurons. For reference, the brain of a honeybee contains ~1 million neurons. Despite their extremely small heads (again, look at that head next to the SINGLE CELLED amoeba) the wasps can still fly, seek out mates, and find thrip eggs to parasitize. Soā¦what? How?
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- Didn't realize anyone still has a web search site in this format anymore.
Reminds me of the web back in the 90ās, before Google.
- Researchers Test 2,400-Year-Old Leather and Realize It's Made of Human Skingizmodo.com Researchers Test 2,400-Year-Old Leather and Realize It's Made of Human Skin
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
- Brenda Lee debuted 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' in 1958. It just hit No. 1www.arcamax.com Brenda Lee debuted 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' in 1958. It just hit No. 1
Brenda Leeās āRockinā Around the Christmas Treeā just topped the charts 65 years after its initial release.
- 120k BMW X6 M stolen within 30 seconds with a relay attack.
A Relay attack is a form of keyless car theft. Criminals bypass keyless entry security by extending the signal of the car key inside the house.
- Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha: Generation Names by Yearwww.hellalife.com Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Z and Gen Alpha: generation names by year - Hella Life
We've all thrown around generational terms and stereotypes, but what actually defines each generation? That's where it gets confusing.
I didn't know, so I looked it up. Now I know. Thought you might like to know too, if you don't already. š
- Two men in Los Angeles tried to steal a food delivery robotstreamable.com Two men in Los Angeles tried to steal a food delivery robot
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- In South Africa, elephants raided a truck with oranges that broke down.streamable.com In South Africa, elephants raided a van with oranges that broke down.
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The incident happened in Limpopo, a province in the north-east of South Africa. The truck was transporting oranges from the farm to the market. It broke down on the way.
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- The World's Craziest Sword Swallower - Guinness World Records
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