Muse tip- a spoonful of sugar cuts the gas bubble that causes hiccups. You’re welcome. A neurointensivist from the University of Texas at San Antonio says he was inspired by a McFlurry straw to create the HiccAway,…
Monthly Archives For June 2021
Go back to 1962 in this Bell Telephone film from the Seattle World’s Fair
Muse pick- Check this out. Two perky teenagers ride the monorail to the 1962 Seattle World’s Fairgrounds, enjoying the many exhibits there. If you are wondering why they seem to be inordinately interested in the…
Watch: Cleaning stadium seats with a flamethrower
Muse – weirdly practical. Only a bazillion seats to go from oddlysatisfying It might seem a little tedious, but it’s satisfying to watch the—grime? oxidization?—melt away with the help of what is—probably?—a flamethrower only used…
Watch: anti-vaccine crank tells public meeting that vaccines cause cutlery to stick to your head
BoingBoing.net In the footage below, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an anti-vaxxer posing as an “expert” for the Ohio House Health Committee, claims that vaccines cause cutlery and other metallic items to stick to one’s head. OHIO:…
Compounding Ice
From Ma.tt I learned something novel about how the ice age happened from this Freakishly Strong Base post by Morgan Housel: The prevailing idea before [Wladimir] Köppen was that ice ages occur when the earth’s…
Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
From the Ma.tt blog Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it, has now decided the best way to gain relevance is attacking the open source WordPress…
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