Collaborate Disseminate
“They’re trolling us… we think. But how the hell did this get published?” asks Popular Mechanics.
Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra shares their report:
Scientists have uncovered a bizarre, indefensible paper that squeaked through peer review at wh… Continue reading 13 Scientists Troll Scientific Journal With a Bogus Paper about Earth’s Black Hole
University of Queensland student Germain Tobar who worked with UQ physics professor Fabio Costa on a new peer-reviewed paper “says he has mathematically proven the physical feasibility of a specific kind of time travel” without paradoxes, reports Popu… Continue reading Researcher Discusses Whether Time Travel Could Prevent a Pandemic
“Fans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years,” reports the BBC. “It is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.”
The Guardian reports:
The performance o… Continue reading 639-Year Organ Performance Changes Chords for the First Time in Seven Years
The seventh-wealthiest man in the world, Warren Buffett, turns 90 today. Famously the tycoon/philanthropist pledged to give away 90% of his wealth, founding with Bill and Melinda Gates “The Giving Pledge,” a campaign urging the world’s wealthiest indiv… Continue reading How Bill Gates Celebrated Warren Buffett’s 90th Birthday
A reporter for Medium’s tech site OneZero recently spotted an especially bizarre ad on Instagram:
The ad features a GIF of a person wearing a Fitbit-style wristband, with the text “Eliminate Cravings.” Across the frame from their hand sits a giant slic… Continue reading A Covid-Friendly Wearable Shocks You With 450 Volts When You Touch Your Face
“Silicon Valley, long obsessed with computer chips, is now disrupting chocolate ones,” writes the New York Post:
Remy Labesque, a Los-Angeles based industrial engineer working for Elon Musk’s Tesla, has re-engineered the chocolate chip for the optimiza… Continue reading Tesla Engineer Reinvents Chocolate Chip for Maximum Taste and Melt
A new article on The Hustle tries to explain why sports stadiums are suddenly full of fans made out of cardboard:
Back in March, a German filmmaker and soccer aficionado named Ingo Müller was sitting at home, complaining to his wife about not bein… Continue reading Can Stadiums Replace Fans With Cardboard Cutouts and Avatars?
An anonymous reader quotes Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
For as long as there’s been Minecraft, there’s been people who want to re-create the world in Minecraft. For one modder, though, it’s not enough to have a to-scale replica of our pale blue dot recreated … Continue reading Ambitious Project Seeks to Re-Create Every Structure on Earth in Minecraft
There’s a Three Stooges movie where aliens try to attack the earthlings where it will hurt them the most — Disneyland.
The Los Angeles Times points out that in fact the park has been closed just three times in the park’s 65-year-history.
But now Bu… Continue reading Disneyland Is Closed. 31,000 Employees Given 18-Day Paid Vacation
Lasrick quotes the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
Scientists with only the pursuit of truth in mind have proven — through meticulous radio-carbon dating and no tasting at all — that half the bottles of expensive aged Scotch whisky they … Continue reading Nuclear Fallout Exposes Fake ‘Antique’ Whisky