The Fascinating World of Whale Barnacles. Those old barnacle shells are like an archive of ocean history for those who know how to analyze them. (via Metafilter)
Ever Heard of a Bettong? They are "Ecosystem Engineers."
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds.
Hildegard von Bingen's Cookies of Joy. (via a comment at Metafilter)
Ed Shearing: Ed Sheeran Shearing Sheep.
Stranded Overnight at IKEA: Inconvenience or Fantasy Come True? (via Boing Boing)
History’s Stupidest Hats, Explained.
Deer with Christmas lights tangled in its antlers spotted in Okotoks. He's been wearing them for a month now. (via Fark)
A blast from the past (2014): 7 Stunning Mineral Formations.
PS: Here's a random observation. Wednesday, I typed the date and realized it was a palindrome. Strangely, Thursday's date was also a palindrome. It was only this morning that I realized that the dates will all be palindromes through Thursday the 9th! That won't happen again for a long, long time.
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I liked the articles on Hildegard's Cookies of Joy and stupid hats!
Palindromes, for most, typing the date is an automatic function while thinking of something else.
Few people, those with superior intellect, would pick up on that.
We all know who that is ;o) ..
Aw, I typed in yesterday's date, 3/12/2021 and it didn't work, so I tried 3/12/21 and that sort of got me halfway. Then I tried mixing it up because I had heard that 5% ish of the world's people do it wei .. different from the rest of us, so that gave me 12/03/2021 or 12/03/21, still no jam on my peanut butter.
I had to conclude that Miss Cellania exists in a different time frame and for her yesterday was 12/02/2021.
So, Happy Valentine's Day, tomorrow, MIss Cellania.
I wrote the date 12/2/21. It works very well for search engines.
12/02/2021 is still a palindrome, if that's how you want to do it, but that doesn't work for the rest of this week. My way does.
I'm sorry you missed out on that bit of fun doing it the common way.
I bet Mr Rocket is a lot of fun at social gatherings, especially when people from other cultures are in attendance.
Here in the States, the norm is to write the date as month/date/year.| I believe it was to represent our total rejection of anything British after we won our independence, just like we run our horse races (and automobile races) in a counter-clockwise direction. Either that or we were just being childish and showing a symbolic middle finger to King George and the rest of Europe.
As for palindromes after the 9th, Saturday the 11th will also be a palindromic date (12/11/21). Then, we'll need to wait about two months until February 2022, when we'll get both Groundhog's Day (2/2/22) and the fourth Tuesday of the month1 (2/22/22).
After that, we should see two palindromic dates per year — for example, 3/2/23 and 3/22/23; 4/2/24 and 4/22/24; and so on until 2030.
-"BB"-
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