Scientific #Caturday

Adding "lol" to the end of your sentence is an ancient ritual to ward off existential dread lol

Honestly, the thought has occurred to me before the apocalypse

Current status

We'll do literally anything to avoid using the metric system

How the heck do I know the size of a penguin?
https://m.jpost.com/science/article-729035

The arc of this joke goes off on a tangent

U.S. Forestry Service had these plans published for lookout towers over the years. Some are obsolete, sadly, due to better building practices, but I think there are still some good ideas in these

The footprint is 24ft x 21ft with a build surface on top about 15ft square. Total height is about 10ft, and although that's on the shorter end, it's actually doable for an individual

Would make a nice treehouse alternative

Old and busted:
Toilets

New hotness:
Luxury poop closets

In all seriousness, I quite fancy this layout for a composting toilet and might probably do something similar in my own cabin

I'm working on a separator design that I can 3D print for this purpose

https://www.thetinytackhouse.com/tiny-tack-house-2012

Kids these days

We're going to see modern art inspired by (or directly generated by) AI flooding the exhibit and auction scene, if it hasn't happened already

GAN art is already a thing so I don't see how it won't be exploited for profit https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-modern-arts-using-generative-adversarial-network-gan-on-spell-39f67f83c7b4

Once upon a time, Saturday morning cartoons were live on stage

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing Thundercats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlVpxOGkqk

In better news, there was a cat named Patches that everyone thought was lost in a mudslide, but actually made it out fine and came back 3 years later

Looks like someone's been feeding her all this time. Or she was somehow able to take care of herself because cat

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956777106/the-cat-that-came-back-patches-believed-killed-in-mudslide-shows-up-3-years-late

TIL There's a bot that toots clinical trials when they're "suspended, terminated or withdrawn". Might be a good research tool on its own to see certain trends

@clinicaltrialsbot

"Stop chewing the Uranium, Timmy"

But seriously, this might actually be something worth revisiting with plenty of adult supervision. I saw a cloud chamber demo when I was around 10, I think. It was the first time I actually thought seriously about science in general

FYI If you want to find Twitch Streams without viewers, there's https://nobody.live

It's mostly good to find obscure streamers, but also odd ones once in a while

I came across an actual cactus on a desk somewhere

What the heck is going on in Maine?

Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jmotmf/squirrel_to_human_ratio_by_state_oc/

Textpattern 4.0 was released in 2005

4.8.3 Was released last month. Gotta hand it to them for taking things slowly

I fear a pending collapse in computer literacy. Most kids now only have a phone and/or tablet and those are almost exclusively walled gardens. Apps and filters are amazing black boxes which reveal no hints of their internals

A few of my friends who teach are already lamenting the daily fight to get kids aquatinted with just the basics. Never mind Zoom, just *using* a computer

Current state of remote learning has really exposed the problem

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“America’s quietest routes”: The least travelled, most scenic routes in the U.S. Might be fun to drive this list some day

https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/