My latest Forbes piece is now out: "Is It Safe To Crack Your Knees And Knuckles?"
And click through to learn why Dr. Donald Unger is the deserving recipient of an Ig Nobel Prize for research in this area!
Technology news, shaken not stirred...
My latest Forbes piece is now out: "Is It Safe To Crack Your Knees And Knuckles?"
And click through to learn why Dr. Donald Unger is the deserving recipient of an Ig Nobel Prize for research in this area!
"Updating software in flight? The Air Force may be close".
Um, is this really a good idea?
Man wears live snake as "face covering" on bus:
One passenger... said she initially thought the man was wearing a 'funky mask' before she spotted it slithering over the hand rails.
I don't know how well it stops aerosol spread, but it undoubtedly helps motivate people to stay more than 6 feet away!
"Koyaanisqatsi meets fractals in mind-bending short film Circulatory Systems"
Circulatory Systems from Visual Suspect on Vimeo.
Google searches as leading indicator for COVID-19 spike:
"We found that Google search interest in ageusia, loss of appetite, and diarrhea increased 4 weeks prior to the rise in COVID-19 cases for most states, with maximum correlation estimates of 0.998, 0.871, and 0.748, respectively..."
Last week, the Russian nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, released a 30-minute, formerly secret documentary video about the world’s largest hydrogen bomb detonation. The explosive force of the device — nicknamed Tsar Bomba, or the Tsar’s bomb, and set off on Oct. 30, 1961 — was 50 megatons, or the equivalent of 50 million tons of conventional explosive. That made it 3,333 times as destructive as the weapon used on Hiroshima, Japan, and also far more powerful than the 15 megaton weapon set off by the United States in 1954 in its largest hydrogen bomb blast.
(Click through to see video.)The child was filmed being lifted dozens of metres into the air after she was caught in the strings of a kite as it was released on a gusty day...
The video ends with the tail of the kite relatively slowly dropping to the ground as those people nearby rush to help the girl.News reports said the girl was frightened but suffered no physical injuries in the incident
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"The Online Chess Olympiad has been impacted by a global internet outage, that severely affected several countries, including India. Two of the Indian players have been affected and lost connection, when the outcome of the match was still unclear," Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation, said in a statement.
He said he decided to award both teams gold medals in the "absence of a unanimous decision" from the body's appeals committee.
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