Meat. It’s bad. Bad-bad. Really bad-bad.
Right?
Or maybe not.
Everyone’s got an opinion about food. That makes it hard to discuss. But there are some things that are easier to grasp and compare than others, and the science is there. Check what Kurzgesagt says about it:
This is just too cool not to watch. Glass recycling, from using lasers and air to weed out chunks of colored glass, all the way to turning molten glass into a cotton-like insulator.
This from the “strange but true” section – how the richest/most powerful countries have changed over time.
So I follow this woodworking guy on YouTube…
It’s relaxing, it’s beautiful, and watching an expert at work is inspiring. And it’s inspiring me to want something like this…
A really cool and surprisingly restful time-lapse (sort of) of a knife-smith making a pattern welded Damascus steel blade.
Grab something warm to drink, lean back, and enjoy!
From the WTF-department: Goats Yelling Like Humans, the Compilation.
Autonomous battlefield AI. Dystopian future. SciFi.
Already here.
Yes, it’s a controversial topic. AI could do a lot of good. It could also make precision killing very, very cheap.
After all, it takes years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to train a professional soldier. It takes a couple of minutes and maybe a thousand dollars or two to build an autonomous gun (once the platform is established).
Here’s a political movie about it, and if you’re interested, a behind the scenes look at Slaughterbots.
I have, at the time of this writing, received 829 rejections.
I’ve also sold 59 stories, most of them to pro-paying magazines, with another 9 out on submission right now.
If you crunch the numbers, you’ll see that I’m getting a 93,4% rejection rate. Which is actually quite good.
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A cabal of evil magicians curse the Moon, causing it to slow down, bringing it closer and closer to Earth.
What happens then? Look below (it’s well worth it):
I like the vlog brothers (that’s John and Hank Green, also John’s a great writer). They come up with some of the best ideas ever.
Here’s how they do it.