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Acorns are incredibly high in tannins (the very word tannin comes from the Latin for oak bark), and ingestion of large amounts of tannins will irritate the stomach, cause vomiting, etc. so it is vital…

Looks nice, but as you say that just searches the current page. Here's how I search my entire site with slightly fewer lines of JavaScript: // Construct the API query const apiEnd…

As others have noted, this is Google's Custom Search Engine rebranded, which will show adverts in the free version. If you want to add search to a small static site, e.g. a small personal website…

At our school there is a lot of support for the "growth mindset". In summary, you praise the effort more than the results, believing anyone can do pretty much anything with enough effort (co…

A bit further back, there was the IT worker who secretly outsourced his own work: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693 …

> Its often a human mistake to think that right now is the most important time ever because it is literally the moment we are in. Whenever I ask my youngest child what their favourite toy is, mor…

Well you can build a battery in your kitchen too with a potato, zinc nail and copper coin, but that's not going to be very practical for something like powering a car. What I meant was that, whil…

From a consumer's perspective, the thing I like about electricity and batteries is that it is relatively easy to be entirely self-sufficient. You can install solar panels and/or a wind turbi…

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If questions like this become political within a US-specific persepctive, they can have an element of nationalism when considered with a more global perspective. Many people in the UK know the story o…

Also "Rediscovering the Small Web": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329

This was known by many Antarctic scientists before 1963. I remember my dad telling me you could throw boiling water into the air and it would freeze into millions of tiny ice crystals before reaching …

There have been a lot of comments on HN recently about how the advertising funded search model is broken and how hard it is to find all the fun and interesting content from personal websites and blogs…

Not mentioned in the article or in the comments so far, but Neeva has raised $37.5m in funding[0]. I'm curious how that money will be spent, if they're not actually spending it on building a…

> The reason why people cut a cross in the base of Brussels sprouts is so they tough part cooks faster so the more delicate leaves don’t go soggy the evil spirits thing is just a nice story That …

Thanks. It is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1704809576/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_... . It wasn't actually published in his lifetime. In fact, I only discovered th…

My dad spent much of 1958-1965 in Antarctica, overwintering at places like Halley Bay, and including a period as scientific leader at Scott Base (for which he was awarded the Polar Medal). That was in…

I've found that quite simply writing about a side project can be enough to help "finish" it. There's something almost cathartic about the process of writing up and publishing. It i…

> "i always ask myself what the value proposition and applications for such maps are. It seems like they take large resources (e.g. manual collection of the data) to create" There was a…

Surely it isn't any great surprise that the algorithms on advertising funded sites are optimised to get the consumers to view and/or act upon the greatest number of adverts, rather than achi…

I've just tried PlantNet for the first time. In the one case I tried it on, it seemed better than PlantSnap, which I installed a couple of weeks ago. There's a flower I've been wonderin…

In the UK, according to various sources including the BBC[0], there is plenty of flour, but one of the main problems is that most of the production lines are geared up to producing large e.g. 25kg sac…

> "Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD" There was a story a couple of weeks ago[0] about pottery dating from around 3600BCE being found at a site in Shoreditch (which was being excavated…

In not entirely unrelated news, some electricity providers in the UK have been paying you to charge your electric car[0] today. There have been other days recently where the "agile pricing" …

My first thought was that perhaps some of these last minute explosions were like celebratory gunfire[0]. But no, it seems that people were still desperately trying to kill each other knowing full well…

The bottom line is that every virus strategy is going to be "risking lives". From the "do nothing and hope it goes away" strategy to the "shut everything down and hope it goes…

"The primary aim is to flatten the curve with specially timed interventions and any herd immunity is a by product of that" That is my understanding too. I've read through a lot of the…

See "COVID-19: residential care, supported living and home care guidance"[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-resident... …