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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
How Could Time Travelers Avoid Diseases?
When we go to another country, we often get recommendations for vaccinations that will protect us from diseases we don't worry about at home. It would be the same for time travelers, depending on what era of history they are going to. For example, I might be able to travel to a time where smallpox was rampant, but my children would not, since they never got the smallpox vaccine. In the 21st century, we don't worry about the plague or leprosy because they are treatable, but going to the past means you also go back to when we didn't have antibiotics, so you'd better take some. If you travel to the future, you may find yourself in the middle of a sigma flu epidemic, and you are the only one in town who hasn't had a sigma flu shot -because you've never heard of sigma flu. Hank Green gives us some perspective on that one aspect of time travel that science fiction writers never think of.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
He Lied on His Resume
This dog was supposed to be an emotional support animals and help her with her anxiety. Maybe it will work; her own worries won't seem so bad now. (via Fark)@theshaemlessme #anxietyrelief ♬ Funny - Gold-Tiger
Mario Kart in Real Life
Joseph Hersher of Joseph's Machines is known for making super elaborate contraptions that do everyday things. This one is quite elaborate, but there's no "everyday" about it. He got one of the larger LEGO Super Mario Kart sets (no doubt because of a sponsorship deal) and not only built the karts, but designed a track that replicates the odd effects of the game! Watch the racetrack move to thwart the drivers. Watch cars get smashed flat. Watch a turtle zig zag across the course. Watch a kart on a bridge leap-frog across another kart. First you have to watch to see what he came up with, then you have to watch again to figure out how he did it. (via Boing Boing)
Recreating History
When Hollywood does history, they often go to great lengths to portray an iconic moment accurately, especially when there is film or photographs of the original event. They get pretty darn close, as this comparison from Vugar Efendi shows us. For most of these, I am more familiar with the actual film or photographs than I am with the movies. I'm impressed at how well they copied the existing archives. Then again, if a movie didn't resemble the real history, it wouldn't have made it into this video. If you have trouble reading the captions, try it in fullscreen mode. (via Laughing Squid)
Monday, March 24, 2025
Rescue!
(via Everlasting Blort)Love this ….He thinks he saved the duck from drowning ✨😊✨
— Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Miss Cellania's Links
Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online.
The Hidden Heroine of WWI: How Anna Coleman Ladd Restored Faces and Lives. (via Strange Company)
The Business Cards of American Psycho. They weren't all that good. (via Metafilter)
Terrorizing our fellow Americans. Russ Vought promised to traumatize Federal workers, and it's happening (via Fark)
Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect. (via Damn Interesting)
What Happens If You Shoot a Gun in Space?
Learn the World Map. When you've learned enough, try the daily challenge. (via Nag on the Lake)
Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
The music video for "Are You Lost In The World Like Me?" by Moby and the Void Pacific Choir. Animation by Steve Cutts. (via Everlasting Blort)
Sunday, March 23, 2025
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