Mildly interesting
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@Loki said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.
Close but no cigar. The Moa bird went extinct because Christopher Columbus’s brother sailed a different route and made it much further. Thanksgiving looked very different in New Zealand.
It was actually the inspiration for Dickens' Oliver Twist. "Please sir, may I have some Moa?"
wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 22:25 last edited by@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
It was actually the inspiration for Dickens' Oliver Twist. "Please sir, may I have some Moa?"
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Lol baby elephants are so dumb.
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Seriously. Just makes me want to punch them in the face they're so dumb.
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Dumb?
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wrote on 11 Aug 2020, 13:20 last edited by jon-nyc 8 Nov 2020, 13:21
In a pinch.
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Difficult to say how particularly special that is.
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wrote on 13 Aug 2020, 01:25 last edited by
OK, everyone check out George's link, and see if you can catch a dollar bill.
I could. Every time.
And I think anyone that plays piano reasonably well, can do the same.
That's my hypothesis. Eye/hand coordination is developed to be much faster for pianists.I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me. It always started out as a game, but he would get mad after losing over and over. He'd finally hiss, and run away, with me giggling like a little kid. Everyone now needs to go find their cat. If you don't have a cat, just walk down the street calling "kitty-kitty." Cats may be slower so that everyone can play that game and win. Not sure.
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wrote on 13 Aug 2020, 01:36 last edited by
I couldn't catch the dollar but when it was increased to 20, I caught it every time. As they say, every man has his price.
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OK, everyone check out George's link, and see if you can catch a dollar bill.
I could. Every time.
And I think anyone that plays piano reasonably well, can do the same.
That's my hypothesis. Eye/hand coordination is developed to be much faster for pianists.I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me. It always started out as a game, but he would get mad after losing over and over. He'd finally hiss, and run away, with me giggling like a little kid. Everyone now needs to go find their cat. If you don't have a cat, just walk down the street calling "kitty-kitty." Cats may be slower so that everyone can play that game and win. Not sure.
wrote on 13 Aug 2020, 01:37 last edited by@Rainman said in Mildly interesting:
I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me.
Def the post of the day.
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wrote on 14 Aug 2020, 18:02 last edited by
Thought this was "mildly interesting"
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When the Great Plague of London ravaged through the British city beginning in 1665, Issac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. As described in Gale Christianson's Isaac Newton, a few months after acquiring his undergraduate degree in the spring of that year, the 23-year-old retreated to his family farm of Woolsthorpe Manor, some 60 miles northwest of Cambridge. Along with being located a safe distance from the carriers of the horrific disease that was wiping out the population of the city, Woolsthorpe provided the sort of quiet, serene environment that allowed a mind like Newton's to journey, uninterrupted, to the farthest reaches of the imagination. This period is now known as annus mirabilis – the "year of wonders."
-UNQUOTE-Newton quarantined during pandemic
So, good things can happen during a "stay at home" 555555
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How couples meet. 1940-2020
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wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 02:03 last edited by
@jon-nyc Interesting graph. I would not have expect the "college" meeting to decrease so much after the last 15 years or so.
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wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 02:04 last edited by
It’s all zero sum. Those online meetings had to come from somewhere.
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wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 02:10 last edited by
@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.