abarbarian Posted January 13 Posted January 13 (edited) Eight Coolest Inventions From the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show Edited January 13 by abarbarian 2 Quote
abarbarian Posted January 27 Posted January 27 A post in the funnies section reminded me that I had read this not so long ago. Why mushroom oil has become the drug of choice for cool middle-class parents in London Quote A growing tide of women, often battling early parenthood, are replacing alcohol with a drug that comes in a little brown bottle with a pipette. Jessica Salter reports Quote a separate study, carried out at Washington University in St Louis and published last year in Nature, which looked at brain scans of patients on a high dose of psilocybin (25mg). It showed that the drug “caused profound and widespread brain changes across most of the cerebral cortex”. In essence, it can help “rewire” the brain. In the US, interest is being taken so seriously that the Food and Drug Administration recently awarded psilocybin an “FDA Breakthrough Therapy” designation. I tried silly simon mushrooms way back in the 70's. You could just take a walk at Almscliff Cragg at the right time of year and pick them and eat them raw. They certainly took you there but always made my stomach feel uncomfortably peculiar along with the mind stuff. So I stuck with LSD which came in what looked like the sweets Smarties, made in Wales it gave a clean hit. I stopped taking LSD when microdots appeared as the quality was very variable, a few were ok but most were laced heavily with arsenic which acts as a accelerant and gave a awful hit. Why modern folk need to rush so much baffles me. Take the pill sit back and chill man then float away into the cosmos. Quote
abarbarian Posted January 28 Posted January 28 The Tiny “Spite Triangle” That Marks a Century-Old Grudge Against New York City Quote By 1922, Hess had already died, but his heirs weren’t about to give the city the land, no matter how useless it was. Instead, they laid down a mosaic of tiles inside the two-foot-wide triangle to serve as a reminder that it was private property, not just another stretch of sidewalk. It’s now known as Hess’s Triangle. The tiles read: “Property of the Hess estate which has never been dedicated for public purpose.” I wonder if they have to pay land tax on it ? 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted January 30 Posted January 30 How an Artist Helped Millions of Drivers With a Counterfeit Highway Sign Quote When Caltrans couldn’t make a useful sign to direct motorists through a confusing interchange, a brave artist snuck his own onto an existing one. Super neat effort by the artist. I wonder what his other projects are ? 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted February 2 Posted February 2 There’s a Wire Above Manhattan That You’ve Probably Never Noticed Quote It's hard to imagine that anything literally hanging from utility poles across Manhattan could be considered "hidden," but throughout the borough, about 18 miles of translucent wire stretches around the skyline, and most people have likely never noticed. It's called an eruv (plural eruvin), and its existence is thanks to the Jewish Sabbath. Quote New York City isn't the only metropolis in the U.S. with an eruv. They can also be seen (or not seen) in St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, and numerous other cities across the country. That is really strange. I wonder if they have similar wires in other countries. I must say I never noticed the wire when I was in Manhattan back in the 70's Quote
crp Posted February 3 Author Posted February 3 12 hours ago, abarbarian said: That is really strange. I wonder if they have similar wires in other countries. I must say I never noticed the wire when I was in Manhattan back in the 70's just about any city with a sizeable orthodox Jewish community will have a major section with such wires. Quote
sunrat Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Mildly interesting and amusing. The S****horpe problem, on Wikipedia. Warning, naughty words shown in a purely academic context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S****horpe_problem Edit - Haha, problem presents itself immediately with the forum software censoring the post. Quote
abarbarian Posted February 7 Posted February 7 9 hours ago, sunrat said: Mildly interesting and amusing. The S****horpe problem, on Wikipedia. Warning, naughty words shown in a purely academic context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S****horpe_problem Edit - Haha, problem presents itself immediately with the forum software censoring the post. If you ever have the misfortune to travel up the M18 to S****horpe you would realise that S****horpe is indeed a problem so not surprising it censored. Quote
crp Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 First find since King Tut's tomb - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/19/egypt-announces-discovery-of-first-royal-tomb-since-king-tutankhamuns-was-found-over-a-century-ago Quote
crp Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 don't know why this got new publicity this week, but anyway the clarification of Newton's First Law https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-misreading-a-major-law-of-physics-for-almost-300-years Quote
abarbarian Posted February 25 Posted February 25 On 2/24/2025 at 2:36 AM, crp said: First find since King Tut's tomb - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/19/egypt-announces-discovery-of-first-royal-tomb-since-king-tutankhamuns-was-found-over-a-century-ago Interesting indeed. I must have missed that one. I watch every program on tv regarding ancient Egypt and the tomb hunters and have done so for quite a few years. I find it fascinating and as they make new discoveries it just keeps on becoming even more fascinating. 1 Quote
crp Posted March 12 Author Posted March 12 Bob Hope on Dick Cavett for the whole show. https://youtu.be/OZ6nJVhc27M Quote
crp Posted April 11 Author Posted April 11 stick around till the end, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDfunTdD0w Quote
abarbarian Posted April 26 Posted April 26 "Rather than tiles, why not wallpaper the pyramids?" Quote The project aims to cover the entire outer shell of the pyramid with granite “tiles” in order to make the pyramid look as it would have when it was originally finished. Well it will give the locals work and be a tourist draw for the area. Seriously though what are they thinking of, surely there are much better projects to invest energy in. Quote
crp Posted April 28 Author Posted April 28 On 4/26/2025 at 1:48 AM, abarbarian said: "Rather than tiles, why not wallpaper the pyramids?" Well it will give the locals work and be a tourist draw for the area. Seriously though what are they thinking of, surely there are much better projects to invest energy in. I think it would be quite nice and informative to have the Pyramids shining bright as they were intended. Quote
abarbarian Posted April 28 Posted April 28 8 hours ago, crp said: I think it would be quite nice and informative to have the Pyramids shining bright as they were intended. Well they are using granite so the pyramid will not really shine much. i seem to remember that some pyramids were cloaked in limestone which would certainly have shone brightly. Certainly interesting to see pyramids as built but for me there are much more important things to spend effort and money on. Quote
abarbarian Posted April 28 Posted April 28 The Librarians of the Future Will Be AI Archivists Quote The project, called Newspaper Navigator, uses optical character recognition algorithms to turn handwritten or text-based characters into a searchable document. Machine learning automates the process. Neat use of AI. Quote
abarbarian Posted May 3 Posted May 3 This Library Is Filled with Government-Censored Content—but You Can Only Access It in Minecraft Quote "Websites are blocked, independent newspapers are banned and the press is controlled by the state. Young people grow up without being able to form their own opinions. By using Minecraft, the world’s most popular computer game, as a medium, we give them access to independent information." Quote The idea was to use the extravagant library, which lives on an open server in the Minecraft world, to host books filled with information that has been censored in countries around the globe. It took 24 builders from 16 different countries over 250 hours to design and create the library. https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en As I do not use Minecraft the only way I could tour the museum was by downloading it and running it locally. Really neat way of looking at information. I got lost everytime I entered, lol 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted May 7 Posted May 7 (edited) More shocking than interesting. Toddler’s Snakebite Treatment Costs Family $297,000 Quote Unfortunately, the snakebite was only the start of the Pfeffers’ trouble, as they came home to a bill of $297,461. The bill covered two ambulance rides, an emergency room visit, and the several days that Brigand spent in pediatric intensive care, but the bulk of the costs concerned the antivenom he received, totaling $213,278. Quote Thankfully, the Pfeffers’ insurer did negotiate down and cover most of the costs of their son’s antivenom treatment. But the family still had to pay $7,200 (the maximum out-of-pocket ceiling of their insurance plan) for it, and they had to pay other bills not covered by their insurance, particularly for one of the ambulances used to transport Brigand to the hospital. Brigand’s mother, Lindsay Pfeffer, also told KFF that the family received a letter this summer informing them that they still owe an additional $11,300 to cover his care. Edited May 7 by abarbarian Quote
crp Posted May 11 Author Posted May 11 Ambulance rides are expensive and not covered all that much by insurance. I was angry about it at first but after thinking about it I calmed down and arranged a very good payment plan. Quote
crp Posted May 26 Author Posted May 26 Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries, https://phys.org/news/2025-05-archaeologist-viking-unexpected-discoveries.html Quote
crp Posted May 26 Author Posted May 26 (edited) some tired differences, https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/all-season-vs-all-weather-tires-whats-the-difference Edited May 26 by crp Quote
abarbarian Posted May 27 Posted May 27 Penguin poop gives Antarctic cloud formation a boost Quote Penguins’ poop may be making Antarctica cloudier — and helping mitigate the regional impacts of climate change. Helpfull penguins Quote
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