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Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
Death, poaching, opposite of irony (news)
“A rhinoceros poacher in a South Africa wildlife preserve was stomped to death by an elephant and eaten by lions, authorities said.”
LA Times adds: “Rangers at Kruger National Park found his skull and trousers.”
Link: Incredible satellite image of aurora over Canada with city lights… and something else
Link: Incredible satellite image of aurora over Canada with city lights… and something else https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/incredible-satellite-image-of-aurora-over-canada-with-city-lights-and-something-else
UPDATE: Former police officer arrested after 3-hour standoff in Athens
UPDATE: Former police officer arrested after 3-hour standoff in Athens
We live in the strangest timeline.
My thoughts:
1. Oh Barry, look what you did.
2. I had to keep reading just to see which state the city was in, because during the Bronze Age, Athens *Ohio* was canonically in the same location on Earth Prime as Central City on Earth One. Which would have made this even stranger than it already is.
3. My brain kept reading Eastanallee into Eastallen.
On the whole, it wasn’t the glowing rectangles that were unhappy.
On the whole, it wasn’t the glowing rectangles that were unhappy.
Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles
Thailand Prepares to Install Floating Solar Plants at Eight Dams
Anesthesia can help patients forget a disturbing memory
PSA for people with food allergy who plan on drinking green beer
PSA for people with #foodallergy who plan on drinking green beer (or anything else):
Things to watch out for and strategies to keep safe while partying.
Food Allergy and Drinking: How to Socialize Without Brewing Up Trouble
It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus
Hyperactive Parrots and Stoned Wallabies
Apparently opium affects parrots the way caffeine affects humans, and hyperactive parrots in India are trashing the poppy fields trying to get their fix.
@Satsuma replies:
cant decide if this is more or less funny than the high on opium wallabies making crop circles on Australian poppy farms
Wow!
I think wallabies and crop circles win! 😂
Explaining why time passes faster as you age
Laundry in ancient Mesopotamia
A clay tablet reveals:
1. How cleaners did laundry in ancient Mesopotamia.
2. The trope of customers who think they know how to do your job better than you do is really, really old.
LOL. 🙄
LOL. 🙄
“Facebook’s newest ploy to bring back teen users is a meme app called LOL”
An interesting look back at the early days of social media & how conventions of …
An interesting look back at the early days of social media & how conventions of blogs, likes, comments, followers etc. evolved. It’s a round table discussion with people who built and ran LiveJournal, Diaryland and Open Diary in the late 1990s.
This week on Function, Anil sits down with Bruce Ableson of Open Diary, Lisa Phillips of LiveJournal, and Andrew Smales of Diaryland for a roundtable discussion about the early social web.
Link: A Giant Ice Disk Has Formed on a River in Maine
Link: The Boston Molasses Flood Is Worth Taking Seriously
Why Cider Means Something Completely Different in America and Europe
Link: Why the death of EdgeHTML is bad for the Internet
NSFW (according to Tumblr): Top 10 Art Posts You Won’t See on your Dashboard This …
NSFW (according to Tumblr): Top 10 Art Posts You Won’t See on your Dashboard This Week
Seriously, these make absolutely no sense. There is nothing NSFW in this list, or that would violate the specific rules given.