Short summary: it’s used in devices that is used to detect radiation, especially weak radiation. Steel manufactured after atmospheric nuclear tests has higher than background level of radioactivity. Easiest source of low background steel is from old ships. It is possible to manufacture steel with low background…

At 2 miles deep, I doubt it would be cost effective (or even technically feasible) for these salvage operations.

I renamed it “Stupid Bulb”

I renamed it “Stupid Bulb”

I know this is almost a month since you posted that, just wondering if it has improved. My TP Link bulbs used to lose connectivity every 1 to 2 days with the router, but after a firmware update they’ve been rock solid (about 4 months now). Wondering if Anker has a firmware update as well.

I know this is almost a month since you posted that, just wondering if it has improved. My TP Link bulbs used to…

Button on the button? Yo dawg? :) Jokes aside, I really like having buttons at the bottom bezel on my OPO and OP3T. They’re always available and I get more screen real estate.

Amazon: From A to F, From H to Z.

Caller: He is conscious.

Google Maps use Web Mercator projection, poles are exaggerated just like Mercator.

If the continent is a perfect circle, sure. But for simplicity, let’s say we have an I shaped peninsula protruding from it. Wouldn’t the coastline on the sides of the I be pointing east and west?

Northern tip of the peninsula. Map. And no, why would the entire coastline be northern pointing? That’s not how it works.

Notoriety and attention. Or (puts on tinfoil hat) advertising move by Akamai.

I’m quite surprised at low number of fatal alligator encounters, actually. I was in a state park in Florida once. Someone walked up close to an alligator sunning itself along a trail, turned his head to his friend and asked “Is it real?” The gator shifted position slightly. That guy moved a lot faster than the gator.

When you meat a cow in its natural environment

Don’t worry, higher tariffs on imported cars (currently it is 2.5%) is coming next.

Social cockroaches? Yeah, I know a few of them ...

“Cow week” won’t have the same draw on Discovery though.

I tried to read the source article and I’m confused at what 1.5 per 100,000 people represent. 1.5 injuries per 100,000 per what? From the 2014 data (15,928 non-fatal unintentional injuries that year) I’m going to assume it is 1.5 per 100,000 per year.

How about the selfie mirror?

Oh no, now they’ll need to bribe lobby more politicians to remain unpunished.

Thinking about it one way makes sense. Thinking about it another way boggles the mind.