A website promoting asteroid mining has a remarkable interactive moving map of a multitude of known asteroids. It might take a little while to get used to the interface, but it’s a load of fun. The default appears to be … Continue reading
Link: http://youtu.be/jh8RX4xDs_k by … Continue reading
A group of men sing at a Tim Horton’s Restaurant somewhere in Canada: by … Continue reading
Bodily functions don’t stop just because you’re on another world, and there are things you’d just as soon not bring home… Link: http://youtu.be/QNP8wy3S_kY by … Continue reading
Here’s something many of us ponder at some point: Do you get wetter walking through the rain or running, given that running causes you to hit more drops per second from the side? The answer isn’t terribly surprising — you’re … Continue reading
Here’s how to climb to the top of a broadcast transmission tower. It keeps getting worse as it goes along, but you do wind up with a clear view to the horizon, something we’d all like to have at the … Continue reading
Seriously, here’s how to buy happiness: In brief, research suggests that once you have enough income to live a comfortable and satisfying life, you’ll derive more happiness spending money on others than spending it on yourself. (See e.g. research by … Continue reading
In New Zealand the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been promoting pet adoptions by training rescued dogs to drive cars. They go very slowly, the cars are specially equipped, and they get a lot of human … Continue reading
Here’s another surprisingly interesting little micro-documentary from YouTube, this one about the U.S. one-cent coin, or penny: An aside: The coins of most countries clearly show their value in numbers. American coins give the value in English words: one cent, … Continue reading
Or given that failures are called “fails” on the Internet, maybe successes should be called “succeeds.” Either way, here, for a change, is a compilation of things that actually went right. There’s even a successful cat in it. by … Continue reading