The sun was demoted? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to have it promoted and the Earth demoted to a mere satellite of the sun?

nice

You would be amazed to see what people are doing on their bikes in the Netherlands. Texting is just par for the course.

My smartphone resides between the two bars of my Syntace aerobars, I don’t miss much of the road when I am looking at it. I tried Recon’s skiing goggles a while ago, their screen is on the right lower outer part of my field of vision, and it was very hard to find it and keep it in my field of vision. While with…

As much as I would like for this to be useful, I doubt that the evaporation process will be so much faster, especially if you handwash your clothes. No matter how much you wring the clothing, it will still be soggy, and then, as was pointed out elsewhere already, there is the little matter of the bottom hems, which…

I would prefer for this to be an intelligent socket, not the entire light. Leaves it to your discretion what kind of bulb (or light fixture in general) you want to put into it and change it if so required. Also could be made to work with 220-240 / 110 / 24 / 12 V systems to make an intelligent home system for nomads…

In that vein, might I innocently suggest that a sock has also been proven by the ages to cover IT up sufficiently for a camera to just document the contortions of your facial expressions. As long as you are not wearing the sock over your head, of course!

I don’t know if IT was referring to the camera:-D

while we are at it, please make it waterproof, then I will have a serious look

Actually, there is one quite plausible theory, that the gigantic numbers first reported for the North American bison populations were themselves already a sign of an ecosystem out of whack since they had been kept down by human hunters in pre- and early post-columbian times, until the hunters in turn were depleted by…

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The fertilized egg splits all of the time during ontogenesis (from zygote to morula to blastula and so forth), so that is nothing new. What would be an explanation for identical multiplets to happen would be that with the first split there would still not be any axial differentiation in the embryo, aka that all…

I think he needs more incentive. It hasn’t been corrected yet. Somebody has to start shouting “but he isn’t wearing any clothes” or something.

And you are able to deduce that from my comment exactly how? Oh, I know, troll’s bait.

endless series of curves - relatives of yours?

Oh, I see what you did there. Work on your spelling;-)

help me out here: Where is the flight attendant and hooter reference?

what he said;-) Yessir, thanks for putting it in context.

Probably best known for coal mines? John Denver weeps. And so do I, actually...

inversion is relatively rare compared to what? If you live in a city in a river valley, it happens every other day in winter, as the warm air travelling up from the city is met with colder air coming down from the hills.
On another occasion I distinctly remember being on a bus travelling from Terezin (=Theresienstadt,…