Mildly interesting

[Ivorythumper]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.

Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912

If only Larry were alive to make a comment about liberals...

[mark]

photo captures a rare sight of Hawaii’s 65-foot-tall Lava Dome

[jon-nyc]

I've seen this before but it's pretty awesome.

[jon-nyc]

After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.

[George K]

@jon-nyc you expected the universe to be fair?

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.

If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.

[mark]

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean

Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.

This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc

[brenda]

@mark

Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

[George K]

@brenda said in Mildly interesting:

@mark

Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

LOL

[Catseye3]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.

And to prove that Cheez-Its have elusive mystical power over all of us that defies understanding, at the very moment I was reading Jon's post, I was eating -- yes! Cheez-Its.

From a box I'd only opened when I opened this thread.

[Catseye3]

How a 680,000-pound rock was moved from Riverside to Los Angeles to form the sculpture Levitated Mass

Full story: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-michael-heizers-herculean-effort-move-340-ton-boulder-la (One overpass the boulder later passed under in Chino left a clearance of barely six inches.)

[Catseye3]

Here's another shot:

[jon-nyc]

@Catseye3

The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc
Michael Heizer is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. Wikipedia

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces

Understatement of the day.

[Copper]

Is there a warning sign to avoid the walkway during an earthquake?

If not, some Californian will ask for it, sooner or later.

[mark]

Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy

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New salt-grain sized micro camera

https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

@Catseye3

The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.

[Copper]

So the Beatles ended at the Polynesian Resort at Disneyworld

Today in 1974, while vacationing with Julian at Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May Pang photographed John adding his signature to those of George, Paul and Ringo on a mass of documents dissolving The Beatles' partnership.

10 days earlier, after Ringo had already signed in the UK, John had failed to seal the deal with Paul and George in New York because "the stars aren't right".

Now, at the urging of an Apple lawyer, John was ready.

“Take out your camera,” he told May before calling his own attorney, Harold Seider, to go over some final points.

"When John hung up the phone, he looked wistfully out the window," May would recall. "I could almost see him replaying the entire Beatles experience in his mind."

Eventually, he picked up the pen - and, in Goons parlance, The Beatles were "deaded".

Link to video

https://www.facebook.com/BuskinWithTheBeatles