“In the meanwhile, the race is on to build the world’s most epic laser.”

Looks like it was detonated by a rainbow.

How do films like this get funded, and how do they recoup the costs? Obviously there are no ticket sales to sustain them.

Did the Frank Grimes monster eat Bart or not?

The headline was confusing. If we underestimated 262 million metric tons by 115%, that would mean we actually take 39.3 million metric tons out of the ground. (262 - 262*1.15 = -39.3)

I don’t get Arkell’s quoted explanation. I assume during any given second, an atom has a certain chance of not decaying—let’s call it x. And x remains the same no matter how recently the atom was checked. So over three seconds, no matter how many times you check the atom, the chance of its not decaying should be 3x.

There’s no “main dance floor” at Burning Man. That looks like a camp called Distrikt that hosts daytime dance parties.

You might also find this research interesting:

I’d be interested to see data based on representative national surveys, rather than a single female designer in each country.

Maybe you can now buy it from the Apple website?

Why are we focused on carbon dioxide, when methane and nitrous oxide are dozens of times more powerful as greenhouse gases?

Mustard. I don’t even like typing the word.

“ ‘these two factors reportedly decrease the most with intoxication’ ”

How can you tell it was #5?

“Shipping containers, being at heart a 8x8x20 steel box”

How do they handle transport of the containers’ padlock keys?

“‘The key novel aspect is that it is “unsupervised”, where we have taught the machine the basic principles of how to ‘look’ at the image,’ Jim Geach, one of the researchers, told Gizmodo.”

“the city ended up banning tall buildings in the city center altogether after the 1970s”