This video shows timelapse of an orb-weaver spider creating its typical spiral wheel-shaped web, a true engineering feat
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Retired from biotech and daily journalism. Proud dad and granddad. Board of 90.5 WESA/91.3 WYEP, Pittsburgh. comments only my own.
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Notification received during an MLB day game. Love the sport, object to the demonstrably unhealthy sound assault. Turn down the damn volume, please.
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"One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned”.
100 year old lays it down on Florida book banning.
You tell ‘em Ms Grace Linn!
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Intel cofounder Gordon Moore passes at 94. Best known for coining Moore's law, a prediction about the speed of advances in computer chips that came to explain the exponential improvement of tech of all kinds. Here's the story of how Moore created his law:
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NEW: Federal banking regulators took aggressive new actions aimed at preventing depositors' funds in failed Silicon Valley Bank from losing money and trying to prevent its downfall from unleashing a nationwide run across the banking system.
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Not to be missed.
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If you fill a thimble with neutron star matter, it will weight 100 million tons.
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“There was no one like Tom,” Patti Smith writes. “He possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.”
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On this site you can see all the satellites that surround the earth.
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This 9000-year-old stone mask is the oldest mask in the world, and was found in the Judean Desert in Israel
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Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school, haul your ass to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want you to read.
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Blue whales are the largest known animal to have ever lived on Earth. For perspective it’s tongue weighs about weighs 4 tons,
100 people could fit inside its mouth, yet the largest thing it can swallow is a grapefruit
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One minute you’re young and fun. And the next, you’re turning down the stereo in your car to see better.
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Brilliant!
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Steelers Painting End Zones To Appear As They Were For Immaculate Reception steelersdepot.com/2022/12/steele #Steelers #NFL #Pittsburgh
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This NYT reporting is astonishing. Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha - The New York Times
