Man with zero hours flying experience accidentally takes off, and barely lands
A guy bought a new plane but, as yet, had zero hours of flying experience. For some reason he was allowed to taxi his plane from one part o...Read More
Showing posts with label Clive Thompson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clive Thompson. Show all posts
A Chrome extension let you bulk-unfollow everyone, until Facebook squashed it
In July 2020, Louis Barclay published "Unfollow Everything," a clever Chrome extension that let you unfollow all your friends on ...Read More
New carnivorous plant discovered, right under our noses
Ever since Darwin first wrote on carnivorous plants, in his still-fun-to-read 1875 book Insectivorous Plants , there have only been 11 inde...Read More
"A septet of turntablists" — harbanger performs at the Library of Congress
Today, "harbanger"—a septet of turntablists—performed live online as an event with the Library of Congress. Check out this tra...Read More
What it's like in a "goshiwon", a 50-square-foot Seoul microapartment
Seoul has sky-high real-estate prices, rising inequity, and incredibly important "goshi" tests that determine admittance to value...Read More
Mario animated using the supercooled atoms in a quantum computer
Physicists with the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms have just announced new success with a particular style of quantum computer —a ...Read More
AI draws movie posters based on textual descriptions of films
Noah Veltman took textual descriptions of several famous movies, then fed them to an AI — to have it generate a graphical version of what t...Read More
First stamp designed by Alaskan indigenous artist, showing Raven stealing the sun
#DmtDaily USPS asked Rico Lanáat' Worl, a Tlingit and Athabascan artist, to create a stamp. He drew an awesome piece showing Raven, ...Read More
Earth's rotation sped up in 2020, we may need a "negative leap second"
#DmtDaily Another weird thing about 2020: The planet sped up. The planet's rotational speed often drifts around slightly, depending ...Read More
Beautiful Vermont house for sale also includes seven creepy jail cells
#DmtDaily If you're looking for a new house in Guildhall, VT, here's a listing : It's a 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house from 1880...Read More
Teenage science explainer wins scholarship for brilliant explanation of quantum tunneling
#DmtDaily VIDEO Maryam Tsegaye, a 17-year-old science adept in Fort McMurray, Alberta, entered a global contest called the "Break...Read More
Gorgeous video of digitally-enhanced dancers cavorting through Istanbul
#DmtDaily This video starts off with dancers grooving away in the streets of Istanbul , wearing what, at first, appear to be regular cos...Read More
The design of 3,000-year-old sippy cups is totally adorable
#DmtDaily These cute little pottery vessels -- fashioned in the shape of animals -- are about 3,000 years old, and were found near children...Read More
How school buses became yellow, and some of the safest vehicles on the road
#DmtDaily In the early days of busing kids to school, buses were painted all sorts of colors, and built to different specs. But in the late ...Read More
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)
