“Have you ever wanted to cut a battery open to see how it’s made? Don’t do it. At best, the contents will irritate your skin. At worst, they’ll explode. Fortunately, we’ve got a good way to look inside batteries: a […]
“A group CrossFitters passed by a restaurant in Brazil. Everyone eating thought they were running away from something, so they jumped up and ran with them.” | see video
An interactive and 3D tour of the, “only Wonder of the Ancient World that’s still standing.” | learn more
A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7, it’s an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings
I often turn to the internet to answer her questions. Two reasons… First, I’m training her to recognize that there’s a wealth of knowledge available online. And second, someone typically has written a better answer than I can muster. “If […]
“New college grads are in for some reverse sticker shock. A recent survey by Clever Real Estate found that while the average starting salary for college graduates is $55,260, current college students expect to make $103,880 at their first job.” | learn […]
“ALL the eels in Europe and America are born in the Sargasso Sea (in the Bermuda Triangle! Ominous? Yes).” | learn more
In the summer of 2020 economist Russell Napier predicted the coming inflation. “My structural argument is that the power to control the creation of money has moved from central banks to governments. By issuing state guarantees on bank credit during […]
“When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the new study found.” | learn more
“Around 1900, about 4.5 per cent of the land area of the world burned every year. Over the last century, this declined to about 3.2 per cent In the last two decades, satellites show even further decline: in 2021 just […]