To take a quote from Douglas Adams and apply it to the subject at hand, the Pacific Ocean “is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to” the Pacific Ocean. This …
This infographic identifies each country’s oldest school or university still in operation. Some will surprise by how old they are, perhaps more surprising are how recent some of these institutions began. If you click on the image you’ll see a larger size image. At Online Schools Report the original is accompanied by others focussing on …
For anyone who has followed the comedic presidential campaign of The Sweet Meteor Of Death (based on the premise that an extinction level event would be the most preferable outcome for the USA after this year’s election), this primer from Quick And Dirty Tips on the differences between asteroids, meteors, meteorites, and comets may be …
I really don’t like generational claims to exceptionalism, but if there’s an aspect of life that is unique to our age it is the scope and speed of change in society. Here’s a video about the locations of video rental change Blockbuster in the US between 1986 and 2019. If your attention span doesn’t extend …
