Liz has this post about her car doing strange things when she gets in it and that casts my recent experiences in sharp relief. Now it might just be flights of fancy but you be the judge:
1. In the last few weeks, people I’ve visited or have been with have developed colds;
2. On Monday, the [...]
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Some earth facts from Robert Roy Britt, of Spacedotcom:
1. What makes thunder?
The air around a lightning bolt is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun. This sudden heating causes the air to expand faster than the speed of sound, which compresses the air and forms a shock wave; we hear it as [...]
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Higgs boson discovery rumours ‘false’
Gosh, I’d never have guessed.
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Let’s see now – Friday evening, tired after a long week. I know, a physics, chemistry and biology quiz!!
1) If you are making soaps and detergents from scratch, one of your starting ingredients will be:
a) Potassium hydroxide.
b) Sodium hydroxide.
c) Sodium chloride.
d) Calcium carbonate.
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1. The iPod was named after which film?
2. Which supposedly nefarious organization is iWoz an active member of?
3. What company did Jobs form when he left Apple?
4. iWoz was cheated out of bonus money at which game player?
5. What was the Steves’ computer club called?
Answers: 2001, Freemasons, NeXT, Atari, Homebrew
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1. Joseph Gidden, a 60-year-old New Hampshire rancher was the first to invent a method for mass manufacturing of ____ ___ and he made a fortune as American farms took to it.
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Science and religion should not be at the odds they are because both are seeking to explain all the phenomena which has been noted over the millennia and both fail to do so completely.
There’s an awful lot of blind faith with one, along with prejudice and political hijacking, allowing atrocities to be committed against man [...]
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No doubt you’ve read of this:
US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US “national asset”.
Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, [...]
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If you watch the first part of the youtube, taken before her voyage, there is, to me, a significant answer she gives to the question of where she plans to go:
“Ah, I guess I’m gonna head out of here for a little bit and then head down south to Cape Horn.”
To the question of how [...]
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There’s been another U.F.O. thingy downunder.
Anything significant about this one? Well, so many people saw it across three states [and Australian states tend to be large]: Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, which suggests some sort of flight path to me. The light was making a spiral formation and could be seen heading west.
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