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RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-06-2019
Quote:Answer: This famous University of Ottawa alumnus donated another $2.1 million Saturday to a school forum that bears his name.
Question: Who is Alex Trebek?
Here.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 10-07-2019
How The Smithsonian Restored the Classic Enterprise Model
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-10-2019
2019: Squirrels' stash of winter walnuts causes car trouble for American couple
![[Image: usa-squirrel-walnuts-engine.JPG]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.5314405.1570618213!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/usa-squirrel-walnuts-engine.JPG)
2015: Squirrel blamed for car engine stuffed with nuts
![[Image: uk-mechanic-finds-engine-full-of-nuts.jpg]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.2994425.1570658987!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/uk-mechanic-finds-engine-full-of-nuts.jpg)
Good thing they figured out it was squirrels, and not, say, a crow.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 10-17-2019
It's old news (2016) but I only just spotted it, so...
Anyway, behold the oldest fluffy tail!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/08/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-offers-insights-into-feather-evolution
Wanna touch...
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 10-25-2019
Scientists let rats drive tiny cars, and they loved it
(video from the linked article)
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Star Ranger4 - 10-25-2019
what I find frightening is they drive better than a lot of my fellow los angelinos.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - DHBirr - 10-25-2019
You're surprised that rats are skilled in the rat race?
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-25-2019
According to The Register, BBC News now has an official TOR onion mirror, maintained in-house.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Star Ranger4 - 10-25-2019
No, being snarky about a percieved lack of skill in everyone else on the road
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Labster - 10-28-2019
Migrating eagles run up huge data roaming charges
No, not The Eagles, just eagles.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-07-2019
Why is it when somebody says he was just doing his job, he's usually just done something noteworthy? In this case, saved another man's life.
Video and details
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-11-2019
"We call it the intensive care unit for a reason"
Quote:To create awareness of the problem and raise funds to build a new hospital, SickKids partnered with Airbnb recently in a campaign that likely surprised people who came across it on the accommodations website.
For $2,392 per night, people could rent a bed in a mock SickKids Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for a three-hour experience they'd share with three other guests. The cost represented the actual cost of running a single PICU bed for a night, and the money went to the hospital's fundraising drive.
The experience sold out.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-13-2019
I think this goes beyond the usual acqua alta.
Venice submerged by highest tide in over 50 years
Venice's Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, walking through St. Mark's Square on November 12:
![[Image: mayor-walks-on-st-mark-s-square-venice.JPG]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.5357649.1573655487!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_780/mayor-walks-on-st-mark-s-square-venice.JPG)
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Star Ranger4 - 11-13-2019
(11-13-2019, 07:20 PM)robkelk Wrote: I think this goes beyond the usual acqua alta.
Venice submerged by highest tide in over 50 years
Holy hanna Rob. I was just reading a K-U book that had a scene set in Venice and thought for SURE the author was pulling my chain.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - hazard - 11-14-2019
Keep in mind that the only thing that prevents this sort of thing happening in the Netherlands is a vast and expensive network of water control systems. To no small extent because Venice is, strictly speaking, just above the water level, and vast sections of the Netherlands are not.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - nocarename - 11-14-2019
Fun Netherlands fact: There is a system of locks that could flood large parts of the country, which if you internalize the fact above is unsurprising. The surprising part is that large parts of the country knows how these systems work and are able to operate them in an emergency. The Netherlands determined that everyone at the time should how to prevent the country from flooding and added it to the curriculum.
Public education works if you let it.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-14-2019
Before this thread gets swamped...
Can you sing like Freddie Mercury?
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Black Aeronaut - 11-15-2019
Quantas Airlines has shattered the previous longest duration and longest distance with an experimental long-distance flight from London Heathrow to Sydney in an effort to convince regulators to permit ultra-long-haul flights.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/qantas-test-flight-london-sydney-nonstop/index.html
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 11-16-2019
Firearm drawn at Father Ted convention
on the GUBU spectrum, this is midly Grotesque, somewhat unbelieveable, totally bizarre and apparently unprecedented.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 11-20-2019
50 Years Ago, Americans Made The 2nd Moon Landing... Why Doesn't Anyone Remember?
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Labster - 11-28-2019
Now that's an acqua alta! Just a reminder that unlike in Aria, this is a medieval city -- the older parts of town have the sewers just dump into the canals.
Anyway, another story: Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's The Only Guy Allowed
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-28-2019
Underground farming
"Underground" as in "take a disused bomb-shelter bunker and grow salad greens in it".
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - classicdrogn - 11-28-2019
That's supposedly how the Lars farm worked in Star Wars, as I understand it.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - DHBirr - 11-30-2019
What does it take to stop a bad guy? Try a fire extinguisher ... and a narwhal tusk....
As Mako said in one Chuck Norris movie, "The warrior uses what is at hand!"
RE: Oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 12-09-2019
In surprise breakthrough, scientists create quantum states in everyday electronics.