A collection of articles defining our times. The pages contain clickable links, don't let the titles fool you, some of the best articles have very non-descript titles and there are usually more articles on the matters in the days and week pages the links land on so it's a sort of treasure hunt through history, Enjoy!
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Why are sharks afraid of magnets?
Okay I'll tell you but only if you promise to come back here, select the desktop view and drop a serious share of the fortune you're gonna make once you know the answer.
First you have to know that most species of sharks must swim constantly to keep water flowing thru their gills to breath.
The second thing you need to know is that, although most people know about electric eels, fewer people realize that the oceans contain many species of electric fish, which is why sharks evolved sensors to detect magnetic fields.
Putting this knowledge together with the fact that electricity has a magnetic field, you realize that any magnetic field warns sharks that they are in danger of being stunned. Normally being stunned isn't so bad, but for a shark it's terrifying because it means the danger of asphyxiation. Because they can't swim if they're out cold and if they can't swim they can't breathe.
Okay, so how does this knowledge make you rich? Well just sew magnetic threads into swimming suits and other water gear and presto, shark detects magnetic field and gets scared away. Unless the customer likes being bitten by sharks you've just made a sale.
In fact beach municipalities would pay handsomely for shark repellant ropes they can anchor offshore to keep their bathers safe. Now go get'em tigers!
First you have to know that most species of sharks must swim constantly to keep water flowing thru their gills to breath.
The second thing you need to know is that, although most people know about electric eels, fewer people realize that the oceans contain many species of electric fish, which is why sharks evolved sensors to detect magnetic fields.
Putting this knowledge together with the fact that electricity has a magnetic field, you realize that any magnetic field warns sharks that they are in danger of being stunned. Normally being stunned isn't so bad, but for a shark it's terrifying because it means the danger of asphyxiation. Because they can't swim if they're out cold and if they can't swim they can't breathe.
Okay, so how does this knowledge make you rich? Well just sew magnetic threads into swimming suits and other water gear and presto, shark detects magnetic field and gets scared away. Unless the customer likes being bitten by sharks you've just made a sale.
In fact beach municipalities would pay handsomely for shark repellant ropes they can anchor offshore to keep their bathers safe. Now go get'em tigers!
Captured Comments No.1: (from YouTube)
Omowà le Zaquir
The trump campaign and presidency have been nothing more than a litmus test of america's morality, ethics and intelligence. Several segments of this nation have failed in all areas.
But it also brought to light just how antiquated the electoral process is and how desperately it needs to be overhauled. There's no way you should be declared the winner of an election if you lost by 3 million votes.
trump has survived in the public eye this long because he essentially existed via short soundbites and deceptive marketing. Now that he has to expound on his viewpoints and agenda, he is being exposed as the duplicitous charlatan he's always been. The fact that people, who have been adversely effected by his policies, are still steadfastly supporting him against any and all allegations is preposterous, and problematic. No matter how this presidency ends, this nation will be left with some serious issues that need to be addressed and unpacked. trump isn't the sickness, he's just a carrier of a virus that predates him by centuries.
And he may have inadvertently created a new political party, which doesn't appear to be going away any time soon
Matthew Ducker
Exactly. He's only a symptom. When he leaves office, the problems will persist nonetheless.
What are the problems? (from the perspective of a foreigner)
- A deeply flawed electoral system (FPTP voting system, electoral college, no publicly funded elections, no centralised independent election commission, very poorly implemented electronic voting, gerrymandering, etc etc etc)
- Animosity and attitudes left over from the Civil War that have festered and grown, having never been adequately dealt with in the first place, or since. Reconstruction failed.
- Anti-intellectualist philosophy
- Prosperity Gospel, Evangelical and other religious cults with extremist political views and propaganda
- Propaganda being spewed by the likes of FOX and AM radio (Limbaugh etc, plus aforementioned religious cults + nutjobs)
- Hyper-individualist attitudes leading to poor community cohesion and lack of civil duty
- Hypercapitalist ideology
- A very bad case of Not Invented Here syndrome (maybe it's possible you could learn some from how other countries do things well? But probably not if you automatically and reflexively think you're way better than them by default!)
The trump campaign and presidency have been nothing more than a litmus test of america's morality, ethics and intelligence. Several segments of this nation have failed in all areas.
But it also brought to light just how antiquated the electoral process is and how desperately it needs to be overhauled. There's no way you should be declared the winner of an election if you lost by 3 million votes.
trump has survived in the public eye this long because he essentially existed via short soundbites and deceptive marketing. Now that he has to expound on his viewpoints and agenda, he is being exposed as the duplicitous charlatan he's always been. The fact that people, who have been adversely effected by his policies, are still steadfastly supporting him against any and all allegations is preposterous, and problematic. No matter how this presidency ends, this nation will be left with some serious issues that need to be addressed and unpacked. trump isn't the sickness, he's just a carrier of a virus that predates him by centuries.
And he may have inadvertently created a new political party, which doesn't appear to be going away any time soon
Matthew Ducker
Exactly. He's only a symptom. When he leaves office, the problems will persist nonetheless.
What are the problems? (from the perspective of a foreigner)
- A deeply flawed electoral system (FPTP voting system, electoral college, no publicly funded elections, no centralised independent election commission, very poorly implemented electronic voting, gerrymandering, etc etc etc)
- Animosity and attitudes left over from the Civil War that have festered and grown, having never been adequately dealt with in the first place, or since. Reconstruction failed.
- Anti-intellectualist philosophy
- Prosperity Gospel, Evangelical and other religious cults with extremist political views and propaganda
- Propaganda being spewed by the likes of FOX and AM radio (Limbaugh etc, plus aforementioned religious cults + nutjobs)
- Hyper-individualist attitudes leading to poor community cohesion and lack of civil duty
- Hypercapitalist ideology
- A very bad case of Not Invented Here syndrome (maybe it's possible you could learn some from how other countries do things well? But probably not if you automatically and reflexively think you're way better than them by default!)
Friday, December 7, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Was there life on Mars?
The answer is yes there was. The evidence was missed because it was hidden in plain sight. But it's there for all to see. So the only question that remains is: is there still life there? The answer to that is:probably, it is very unlikely that life would not have adapted to the various environments the planet offered. That means the red planet most likely still harbors life.
Another thing is that it is entirely possible that life on earth actually began on Mars. This is because Mars would have been the first planet to become habitable. Possibly a billion years earlier than earth. Of course this all remains to be proven but I have every confidence that it will. At least the part about there having been life on Mars and that there is some still there. There are even good ideas about where life or evidence of it is more likely to be found. But I will leave that for another time.
Enjoy.
Another thing is that it is entirely possible that life on earth actually began on Mars. This is because Mars would have been the first planet to become habitable. Possibly a billion years earlier than earth. Of course this all remains to be proven but I have every confidence that it will. At least the part about there having been life on Mars and that there is some still there. There are even good ideas about where life or evidence of it is more likely to be found. But I will leave that for another time.
Enjoy.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Sunday, December 2, 2018
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