fun facts
A detailed guide to corrugated board grades.
“Find out more about the key component of your corrugated packaging – and how it influences everything from packaging costs to performance.” ~ learn more
fun facts
Gelatinous balls in Minnesota lakes and rivers.
“What folks are likely seeing are colonies of bryozoans, says DNR aquatic invertebrate biologist Gary Montz. These microscopic animals, sometimes referred to as moss animals, make jellylike tubes and attach themselves to sticks, rocks, and other submerged objects. They connect […]
fun facts
Did you know SodaStream bottles expire?
It’s because they’re not just bottles, they are also pressure vessels. I tried to put our old SodaStream back into service this week only to discover that the bottles expired almost a decade ago and no longer work right. ~ […]
fun facts
California woman catches mail thief with an Apple AirTag.
She was sick of her mail being stolen, so she shipped herself a package with tracking device and waited to see where it ended up. Then the called the cops. Color me surprised that the cops actually did something about […]
under the microscope
World’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.
“Sodium solid-state batteries are usually seen as a far-off-in-the-future technology, but we hope that this paper can invigorate more push into the sodium area by demonstrating that it can indeed work well, even better than the lithium version in some […]
under the microscope
Inside the laboratory for extraordinary microbes.
“Cultivarium builds tools to grow, transform, and engineer “extraordinary” microbes: the salt lovers, heat tolerators, and geyser growers that have long been inaccessible to scientists. Studying such organisms might lead to better gene-editing tools or medicines. And regardless of whether […]
to your health
Dermatology’s disastrous war against the sun.
This is anonymously published by “a midwestern doctor” so who knows just how much of this is bs. Informed readers, please write to me! “Skin cancers are by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, so to […]
better doing
Even the powerful are powerless.
“Mark Twain was once invited to give a toast to a gathering of the great Civil War heroes in New York. He could have chosen any topic, but Twain, always looking for the unexpected and the humorous, chose babies. When […]
tech, startups, internet
The AI boyfriend business is booming.
“These female AI users, flipping the stereotype of under-socialized men chatting with AI girlfriends in their parents’ basement, are challenging assumptions about the nature of human intimacy.” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
Would you use an outside AI program to automate a core competency?
“If you outsource your core competencies to someone else, particularly a 3rd party AI company, then that tool is getting better and regardless of what it does or doesn’t do with your data, it may enable more people to compete […]