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Not just that you can't predict where the hurricanes will go, you can't really have a pop-up generator to extract power from a hurricane can you. It is a bit extracting power from lightning …

It depends. One of the things that makes Earth special is the formation of carbonate rocks by life taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and falling to the bottom of the oceans; these rocks are then subduc…

I'm waiting for: Optimus Prime

By Jove?!

NeXT was cheaper than BeOS, wasn't that a key thing?

Peter Jones, Michael Horden, Richard Burton, Richard Vernon, James Mason, Terry Thomas... and Kenneth Williams too All voices I would love to hear, and talk with. We don't have their larynx'…

Wasn't this the core of Stanislav Lem's Solaris? Albeit reconstructing the personality of a loved one from someone else's memories.

Is this becoming the Inception of explanations? I had to look up Baader_Meinhof Phenomenon. "The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention su…

42 minutes Tube each way, hopefully off peak + walking. An hour door to door. Time to read.

Compare with the Boston Molasses Flood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood …

And Zen Internet

This sounds to be 5 years out of date. My Plantronics bluetooth headset works and pairs fine, ten quid. I also have some Bluetooth earphones (Vansky), it has issues but for the most part works really …

As ever I check HN several times a day, and even go to the trouble of checking the new items feed, but I had not seen it before. Someone had posted a list of books recommended on HN, perhaps one on Gi…

Yes, having read "The Theory That Would Not Die" [0] I too soon came to the conclusion that this seems to be what is behind the Wisdom of Crowds. Aircraft searches are a big thing, and there…

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Hi kids, don't forget we live in the future; seems odd to discuss something and not have a link to it. Onkle Reje: http://www.dr.dk/Ramasjang/Onkel_Reje/forside.htm It …

You can download the DR app on an Apple TV and watch Danish television. Strangely a lot of reshot UK programmes. My particular favourite was putting a camera on the front of a train: Helsingør to Hels…

And there's the Storyreller, also by Henson too. Stone soup...

is super soldiers for CRISPR, what alien invasion is for SETI? I loved it up until it went daft.

Does anyone know which video the test file is? Perhaps it's encrypted, or a Netflix promo piece. Wouldn't there be copyright issues to use their actual streaming licences content?

A matrix of cobalt oxide? Isn't that going to make it heavy?

I don't know if this is that link, but it fits the bill: http://testyourvocab.com/ It gave me 36,800 I'm encouraged that there are more words for me to learn…

Are you 'aving a laugh?