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A sad fact. I didn’t realize it is this bad. Currently it is mostly escalation after escalation. What way out is there?
The radar can detect airborne ICBM warheads up to 2500 miles away....
Ships used for building offshore windfarms. Some have legs for raising up off the ocean floor
Once a hurricane makes landfall, it’s usually the beginning of the end for the storm. But a tropical cyclone passing over warm, waterlogged ground can get a jolt of energy that refuels its fury, researchers reported in January at the American Meteorological Society’s meeting in Baltimore.
Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even “German humor” produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden is kind of its...
One of the fascinating things about sleep is we tend to think, oh, nothing’s happening. I’m not getting anything done. But your brain is hugely at work. There are all these different stages of sleep where you can see these symphony of waves, where different parts of the brain are talking to each other, essentially. And so,...
One of the most intriguing objects housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York is a container for something that few people have ever heard of: the lapis de Goa, or “Goa stone.”...
It almost looks like those tempera paintings on windows we did in grade school. Also, why are they empty? Don’t they have a homeless problem.
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aviation maps. Intended for pilots, the FAA publishes free detailed maps of the entire U.S. airspace, and detailed maps of airports and their...
2022 was the bad year that wasn’t—at least for a mysterious paralyzing condition in children....
Together, the 100 most valuable brands in the world are worth more than $5 trillion....
Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some...
Wikipedia...
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/fba88b66-da51-4697-b608-271e2dab94b3.png...
Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
