What have you learned today?
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Scientists finally confirm what’s inside the Moon – and it’s not cheese
That's one mystery about the Moon we can take off of the list.
www.zmescience.com
Probably solid Iron at its core surrounded by an outer fluid layer similar to Earth.
So yeah, not cheese.
Apparently, someone on Tumblr invented an "ancient" Greek Goddess name Mesperyian, and a lot of people seem to just have accepted her as an actual, obscure, Greek goddess, because they didn't know better. If you google her and don't pay attention to the relatively small number of results and the first ones being about how she's not real, you could probably think she was a real one, because she appears in a lot of sites that you'd expect real goddesses to.
Just watched a documentary called Class Action Park. Thought I knew about most stuff regarding Action Park, but I do recall hearing one new thing. Spoilered/blurred because this is a bit graphic.
If people are familiar with Action Park, they most likely know about the infamous looping waterslide. What you may not be familiar with is the fact that it was tested before being opened to the public. They had a few people go through, came out bloody, so they padded the loop. Then, they noticed with the next group that people were coming out with lacerations. When examining the slide, they found out why. Those people getting banged around? Their teeth got knocked out with enough force to get embedded in the slide. Those teeth were slicing up the next group of people.
If people are familiar with Action Park, they most likely know about the infamous looping waterslide. What you may not be familiar with is the fact that it was tested before being opened to the public. They had a few people go through, came out bloody, so they padded the loop. Then, they noticed with the next group that people were coming out with lacerations. When examining the slide, they found out why. Those people getting banged around? Their teeth got knocked out with enough force to get embedded in the slide. Those teeth were slicing up the next group of people.
Action Park was quintessential '80s New Jersey. An absolute lack of giving a shit from the state government so long as the bribes came in.
Some light on the suspicious defenses for a Scientologist abuser that isn't the usual mind control cult stuff, is also the usual money, contracts and greed stuff too.
Scientology has its tentacles all over the place. tune at the end about Scientology private investigators is an unexpected bop however, linking it separately for gd measure.
Scientology has its tentacles all over the place. tune at the end about Scientology private investigators is an unexpected bop however, linking it separately for gd measure.
Today I learned that Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim was a real person.
Been watching a good amount of 9/11 stuff the past week. Never really had much more than a casual curiosity about it all these years later, but a new National Geographic documentary really struck me on the immense personal toll it took. Youtube has a full episode available here for the time being at least.
I also wanted to learn more about the buildings themselves though, and thought these few were particularly insightful -
I also wanted to learn more about the buildings themselves though, and thought these few were particularly insightful -
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You too, huh? It's weird that I never really saw a huge amount of stuff about it until a week ago. Guess it was just that time of year for it. Crazy to see...
I got curious after watching that one after you posted it here, and there's the 1st episode of this series uploaded as well.
Tip for ppl awaiting court for murder and framing (with fentanyl-poisoned gummy overdose) of your husband: don't write coercive letters clearly directing your family to lie for you as part of your baseless narrative under oath, and especially dont get caught in your jail cell with it. Kind regards, your exasperated defense lawyer.
Ok, I'm not sure if I've actually learned something or not, but apparently when local weather people say there's a "30% chance of rain," it means there's a 100% chance that 30% of their viewership will get rain, not that there's a 30% chance for 100% of their viewership. A local weather person felt the need to make that distinction, but in my head, it rings as "six in one hand, half a dozen in the other."
It sounds like a medical company is trying to do some real good by offering their tuberculosis tests at cost in poor countries. They dropped it from 10 bucks a test to 7 bucks a test and they say that as manufacturing gets cheaper they will continue to cut the price in those poor countries.
It might seem like a cop out to say "poor countries only" but this is a pretty big deal for those countries and way less so for people in wealthier places. TB is a long term wasting illness that will probably eventually kill you, but isn't that easy to immediately identify because a lot of symptoms could read as other illnesses that go away on their own. It needs months of antibiotics to address and the earlier they catch it the higher the survival rate gets. In places where antibiotics are scarce or expensive, these tests will help reduce waste and get people treatment sooner.
AFAIK tuberculosis is so rare in the UK now they don't even vaccinate for it. So that's the 'punch the injection site' game we used to love all finished.
If you get a drill bit stuck in concrete and it screws itself out of the drill, don't just grab it and try to pull it out with your fingers, it will be really, really hot.
And especially don't do it when you're working on plumbing so the water's turned off.
And especially don't do it when you're working on plumbing so the water's turned off.
I've heard that as well, and I had it explained slightly differently. In the second scenario, you are trying to assign a binary value (rain or no rain) as a probability for something as large as an area the size of a station's broadcast reach. It either rains on the whole area (30% chance) or it doesn't (70%.) The first scenario allows for specific points within the broadcast area to be either affected or not, and the percentage chance is an indicator of whether someone within the area will be impacted or won't be.
Also I had it explained that it is never 100%, but rather within a margin of error. Meaning it would be more like a 98% chance that 30% will get rain. As someone who relays weather forecasts for broadcast (and also unfortunately as someone who has to answer phone calls to a news room) I get asked about forecasts a lot. You would not believe how many times I get the call asking...
"It's raining right now, but you just said it is a 60% chance. You're wrong, it is a 100% chance. You need to correct your forecast."
You also wouldn't believe how many times that happens, and it ISN'T raining at the studio where I'm broadcasting from. Making the question seem even more absurd. The explanation your local guy gave is the right one. But a better way to visualize it (as I've had to explain it many times) is think of the % chance not as an indicator of the probability of seeing a storm (which to be fair is exactly what it sounds like,) but rather as an indicator of what a storm's physical size might be as it passes an affected area. The larger the % chance; the bigger the area of green, yellow, and red will be on the radar image.
As if these waters weren't muddied enough!
Doesn't really matter to me, though *knocks on wood*, I work from home, so my dependence on weather forecasts amounts more to a level of comfort and convenience rather than any functional impact, i.e.: affecting a commute or capability. If I had it my way, I'd be content with Ollie's brand of forecasting:
The "it's for a book I'm writing" excuse never gets old. Wealthy American Mormons be criming in distinctive flavours.
You sometimes forget that Pete Townshend managed to get himself on the sex offenders register don't you. I'm not even saying he's guilty, it's just such a weird thing he did. Leave investigations of child abuse to the authorities? Not on your Nellie! I wrote the theme tune to CSI!