history
My contribution here will be short: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-full-story.html Our man Tim Urban over at Wait but Why digs into the SpaceX Program. Urban used to work for Elon Musk and he was able to have a phone conversation with him regarding the big plan to
fauna
There is this list that once received an Ig Nobel prize for improbable research and then became adopted by lunatics as the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. The story of how that research occurred and its subsequent transition into broader adoption could be worth a triviawednesday all on its own but
humans
longanimity forbearance; endurance of hardship/injuries/offence with patience | origin: Latin > longanimitas “long-spirited-ness” (anima = spirit) chimerical wildly fanciful/unrealistic; unreal; visionary | origin: related to the Chimera — the great, fire-breathing, mythical beast with lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail pulverulent covered with or consisting of dust/
history
in 1873, the sisters Patti and Mildred Hill, a school principal and a composer, respectively, wrote a little ditty to welcome Patti’s charges into the classroom at the beginning of each day. that tune was called ‘Good Morning to All‘. by 1912, the combination of the tune from ‘Good
biology
given the recent interest in collective names for animals, i’ve compiled a set of what i find to be the funniest and most interesting names for groups of animals. i’ve also included a column pertaining to the family role names for the same animals (male; female; offspring). not
beer
picture the rolling plains of the serengeti — a herd of wildebeest trundle along, munching all the grass you could possibly imagine. suddenly, a sawt of female lions breaks into the side of the herd, sending the entire implausibility into a frenzy, young and strong leaving old and frail behind in
fauna
after a long hiatus, we’re back! And I’m going back to my my roots — my first love: fauna Balaeniceps rex (King Whalehead), the shoebill stork, naturally lives in the swamps of tropical eastern Africa (the great lakes area of Africa) and shares familial traits with other Ciconiiformes, like
etymology
who doesn’t love exploring the lovely and haunting sounds of an echo? whether you’re hiking and come across an awesome cave or you’re singing 16th century polyphony in a squash court, you can’t help but notice the lingering sustain of sound. if we consider waves, as
math
i’ve recently been noting to people some randomization theories related to card shuffling. my position is that the smoosh shuffle randomizes cards on the first try, the riffle shuffle randomizes in 7-10 shuffles, and the overhand shuffle randomizes in 20,000 shuffles. i’m wrong here is what is
anatomy
so, we’ve looked at human eyes, simple eyes, compound eyes, and a variety of specialized and amazing eyes from some fantastic creatures. now let’s focus down on one tremendous creature: the peacock mantis shrimp. it’s called a shrimp because it kind of looks like one but it
anatomy
if we can assume that eyes all basically work the same way, then we can look at specializations based on those accepted rules. basically, light enters the eye through the pupil/iris, passes through a lens, and is interpreted by the optic nerve via rods and cones. eyes also are
anatomy
continuing with eye month, let’s take a look at simple eyes. simple eyes are any light receptor that contains only one lens. the name is slightly counter-intuitive because simple eyes can be quite complex, in and of themselves. for example, human eyes are simple eyes because they contain only
