Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Encryption Lava Lamps
February 25th, 2023Via: Atlas Obscura: Cloudflare covers about 10 percent of international web traffic, including the websites for Uber, OKCupid, or FitBit, for instance. And the colorful wall of lava lamps in the company’s San Francisco headquarters might be what’s generating the random code. The wall features over 100 lava lamps, spanning a variety of colors, and […]
Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina
February 18th, 2023Via: WelteMax:
Clockwork-Like ‘Computer’ Discovered Inside Brainless Microscopic Organism
October 14th, 2022Via: ScienceAlert: Tiny single-celled critters obviously don’t have room for a brain to tell them how to move in complex ways, so to get about, they usually roll, slither or swim. But microscopic pond dwellers called Euplotes eurystomus have mastered a way to walk brainlessly – scurrying about like insects, with their 14 little appendages. […]
Scientists Uncover the “Chemistry Behind the Origin of Life”
October 7th, 2022Via: SciTechDaily: Purdue University chemists have discovered a mechanism for peptide-forming reactions to occur in water — something that has baffled scientists for decades. “This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life,” said Graham Cooks. He is the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Purdue’s College of Science. “This is […]
Off Topic: Inside the 40 Year-Long Dungeons & Dragons Game
August 8th, 2022The video below reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to ask… I never DMed, ever, and I don’t want to start now. I’ve looked for tabletop RPG systems for my own children to use DMless and came across Four Against Darkness, which they played until the books fell apart. I bought the Legend of […]
Postmortem Sperm Retrieval Is Turning Dead Men Into Fathers
July 20th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: After a man dies, his sperm cells live up to 72 hours and can be retrieved with an incision to the testicle, then frozen.
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
July 13th, 2022I added the image of the Carina Nebula to my desktop wallpapers folder. Woh. Via: NASA: The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). […]
The End of the SLR Photography Era Is Near
July 12th, 2022Update: Nikkei Says Nikon to Stop Making DSLRs, Nikon Says It’s Still Making, Selling & Servicing Them Via: DPReview: Nikon Inc’s statement is fairly straightforward, but Nikon isn’t explicitly denying the information in the Nikkei’s report. Nikon doesn’t say the report is incorrect, only that ‘Nikon has made no announcement in this regards [sic].’ Nikon […]
Japanese Hermit Lives in Abandoned Village Behind Dam
July 5th, 2022It’s beautiful there. Via: Toyko Lens:
Your Children May Be Grieving the Death of Technoblade
July 2nd, 2022This is far off-topic, but I wanted to do a quick post about it anyway. Millions of people around the world, mostly children, love a Minecraft content creator called, Technoblade. If your children play Minecraft, they probably know Technoblade. Technoblade died of cancer a couple of days ago. Be on the lookout for grief in […]
