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Tuesday, 8 October 2024

A Zen Garden Except the Sand is FIRE

quote [ We tried this once and the trick (for us) to get more even propane distribution was to split the supply line with a T and feed the spiral coil from both ends. That seemed to keep the pressure more even and gave a better distributed flame. ]

Nifty.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+1 Informative]
[by steele@7:55pmGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 6 October 2024

I Spent Over 12 Hours on an Amtrak Train (on purpose)

quote [ 1:56 You can see that they had installed large screens as a departure board, but at some point an executive came around with the great idea that you could also just play advertisements on those ]

Trains were one of my favorite parts of visiting the UK. Sucks we can't have decent public transport in the states.
[SFW] [travel] [+2 Insightful]
[by steele@8:23pmGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Homemade Machine Turns Bioplastics Into Cooling Fabric

quote [ In this video we build a machine to make fabric from PLA that has been specially modified for high reflectivity. Because of PLA's strong emissivity in the infrared sky cooling window it is potentially a very good option for radiative sky cooling. ]

Dang, whole lot of progress since his last video on the subject.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+3 Interesting]
[by steele@7:00pmGMT] [2 comments]

Friday, 27 September 2024

The Heroic Origins of Japanese Socialism

quote [ Japan’s socialist movement took shape in the face of brutal repression as the country embarked on a path toward imperialist expansion. Against the odds, Japanese socialists built a political force that could challenge the new capitalist order. ]

Finally got my hands on a copy of the subs for The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine. Looking forward to it, but gotta find the time. It rolls in at 3 hours long!
[SFW] [history] [+2]
[by steele@9:26pmGMT] [2 comments]

Friday, 20 September 2024

UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize

quote [ A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity. ]

Lol, so the secrets to a long life are apparently not reporting your death and not having a birth certificate.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by steele@12:37pmGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 16 September 2024

I made a Gun-Sword

quote [ @ManofLowMoralFiber
22 hours ago
I, for one, cannot believe that the full body pool submersion quench method had negative consequences. ]

Wish I had a job where companies sent me free welding lasers.
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+1 Interesting]
[by steele@7:20pmGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese

quote [ Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country’s 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese. How we got to this point is a long story, and it starts during a national dairy shortage in the 1970s. ]

Turns out the Free Market ain't so free. Who knew?!
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2 Informative]
[by steele@11:44pmGMT] [4 comments]

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