|RECOMMENDED RAMBLINGS
|End of the Big Dream?
It's unlikely we will ever see a commercial avaiation success story like the Boeing 747 It was conceived on a fishing trip between the CEOs of PAN AM and Boeing. When finally created in 1969 it was the biggest airliner in the world, first wide bodied and 'two tier'...
|50 Facts About Shakespeare
The No Sweat Shakespeare website is a labor of love from London-based father and son Shakespeare enthusiasts John and Warren King.To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare we wanted to put together some interesting facts about him, however whilst researching...
|A new kind of Justice?
There is another scene of imprisoned foreign sex workers who are made to look dumb and gullible, thinking that Batman is some sort of devil This isn't a review of the new movie; Batman vs Superman, it is more of a comment on observations during the film. I walked out...
|Extraloveable
He never sold out to the corporate part of the music industryPrince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) 2016 has delivered several blows already and this one is also mighty. Prince was renowned as an innovator and was widely known for his eclectic work,...
|Kahn Flying Huntsman 6×6
The specifications and appearance are reminiscent of the the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 Kahn at the Geneva motor show revealed what had to be one of the stranger concept cars. Code named 'Mission 1', it's a 6x6 version of their Flying Huntsman. It is based on the Land...
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls
on 2 February | 2023
A new type of ice called medium-density amorphous ice has the same density as liquid water, so studying it could help us understand water’s strange behaviour at low temperatures
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Wormholes could magnify light by a factor of 100,000
on 2 February | 2023
Wormholes, which are strange hypothetical tunnels through space-time, could act as cosmic magnifying glasses for objects behind them
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Sunquakes may be caused by weird beams of electrons from solar flares
on 2 February | 2023
Mysterious ripples in the sun’s plasma have gone unexplained for decades, but they may be caused by strange beams of high-energy electrons fired inward by solar flares
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Human neurons implanted into a rat's brain respond to flashing lights
on 2 February | 2023
Lab-grown neurons were transplanted into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortexes. After two months, the neurons responded when the rats saw flashing lights
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Google AI generates musical backing tracks to accompany singers
on 2 February | 2023
An artificial intelligence called SingSong can take a recording of a person singing and create a backing track for it with the appropriate rhythm, key and harmonies
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US military plan to create huge autonomous drone swarms sparks concern
on 2 February | 2023
The AMASS project would involve thousands of drones, on the ground, in the air and in the water, working together in a "swarm of swarms" to overwhelm enemy defences
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
|General
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Punxsutawney Phil is not the only furry forecaster
on 2 February | 2023 at 20:10
Punxatawney Phil may be the star of Groundhog Day, but US towns have many other predictive rodents.
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Israel says Sudan peace deal to be signed in...
on 2 February | 2023 at 19:50
It would normalise relations between Israel and another member of the Arab League.
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Historic deep freeze to hit US northeast as ice...
on 2 February | 2023 at 18:47
The weather service is warning of "once-in-a-generation" wind chills from Pennsylvania to Maine.
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Ukraine war: 80 years on, we are facing German...
on 2 February | 2023 at 18:44
He was speaking in Volgograd - formerly Stalingrad - to mark a World War Two anniversary.
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Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from powerful House...
on 2 February | 2023 at 18:43
Party members say it is due to past comments about Israel - but Democrats have called it revenge.
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Italian fugitive Edgardo Greco tracked down as...
on 2 February | 2023 at 18:20
Edgardo Greco was wanted for the grisly murder of two brothers in Italy in 1991.
