Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so

I think the argument that bees have evolved to lead net-positive lives as long as the hive is doing well. And bee hives have the option to up and leave, so if they're deciding to stay, they're probably ok.

Interesting fact: this kind of distraction impacts people too, that's why deep work is pretty much impossible while checking twitter every 2 minutes

How does "Children of Men" keep ending up on these lists?! Was it really that amazing, am I missing something?

chat is this true

what if gork was the AGI all along

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

sacred violence required.

just lol at the idea of someone trying to become a good artist in order to become happy and well socialized. let me get bitten by one of those ticks that makes you allergic to meat so i can finally become a great chef.

papa wirebonds and baby wirebonds (this is a power MOSFET)

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

Autonomous excavator building a wall! 🪨 This will blow your mind! 🤯 Researchers from ETH Zürich have used an autonomous excavator to build a 65-meter-long, six-meter-high dry-stone wall. The autonomous system, called "Heap," precisely scanned and placed stones, forming a

Nicholas Romero was an Italian that has lived under Spanish rule in the late 1500s, and then ended up in England. That's where he met Hugh Plat who had the knack for pumping his friend due information/inventions. Romero apparently told Plat how to make pasta, including extruded

This is one of the most spellbinding anecdotes I've ever read, and it’s just Ray Bradbury rambling about a carnival worker he met when he was twelve. “He said, ‘You were my best friend outside of Paris in 1918. You were wounded in the Ardennes and you died in my arms there.’”

A pair of hammerhead sharks depicted in the Edo-period Oki Kuni Sanbutsu Ezu Chūsho (Illustrated Notes on Oki Province’s Products). Despite the almost cartoon-like simplicity, the artist captured key features accurately – note the jagged teeth of the left shark and the two

Indeed

game theorist making small talk at a party: “my strategy is chit-for-chat”

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention: “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe

“Some three hundred years hence, the People of these Colonies—then a mighty Nation—shall devise curious contrivances, small in form, yet made to take to the Air like unto Kites, though wanting of any Cord, and flying contrariwise to the Wind. These Devices shall shine with Light

This is true and really important