You can hear cauliflower growing. “That rapid expansion means the florets of the plant’s popcorn-like heads often rub against one another as they grow, creating a noise many farmers call “cauliflower creak.”” It can grow up to 1 inch per […]
Massive iceberg collapses and flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland. “this video shows the entire event unfolding over approximately one hour, not just the brief final rollover seen in shorter clips shared around the world.” ~ learn more
The professor who taught people how to think “Professor Julius Sumner Miller finds pure joy in the ordinary world and cannot rest until you feel it too,” says the description of this restored 1962 episode of *Why Is It So?* […]
How a simple request for Al to book a gym class exposed a major threat. “Bad news — I can’t add them back,” the AI agent replied after it tested a gym booking API by cancelling someone else’s reservation. It […]
Cards Against Humanity are great marketers, just like Elon. “We have forced Elon Musk to get the fuck off our land, and now it’s time to build something on it, a monument to remind Musk that he’s a sad little […]
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
RecipeTables. “A prep-table notation invented by Michael Chu at Cooking for Engineers: ingredients down the left, each step a merged cell spanning exactly what it combines. The whole recipe reads in one look — no scrolling back and forth between […]
Beard transplant review. “The procedure cost around $10,000, which is obviously a lot of money. But for me, it was worth every cent.” One guy explains how a beard transplant changed the way he’s viewed (or at least the way […]
Mario meets Pareto. “Between you and me, if you want to win, never allow Koopa to sit in your kart!” The article uses Mario Kart 8 to explain the Pareto frontier: filter out builds that are strictly worse on every […]