Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanic-eruption-triggered-butterfly-effect-that-led-to-the-black-death-researchers-find (via Strange Company)
A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has had her life spared by his parents, who were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness. (via Damn Interesting)
Truckers Say These Are The Best (And Worst) Highways In The U.S.
Looking Back at the White Man: The story of Julius Lips. His 1937 book on colonialism as seen from the other side rubbed Hitler the wrong way. (via Metafilter)
Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal. (via Fark)
The Lost Forty: How an 1882 Surveying Error Saved a Patch of Forest from Logging.
The Judy Garland Christmas Movie Meet Me in St. Louis Was Surprisingly Spicy Behind the Scenes.
Most radioactive site in US is moving on from the Manhattan Project. And finally dealing with its nuclear waste in a surprising way. (via Damn Interesting)
2 comments:
First comment on trucking has it right, I-76 across PA is hell. Potholes, speeding trucks, and crossing the Appalachians at a diagonal.
And there's the weather. . .
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