New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin, according to new NASA-funded research that describes movements of the planet’s crust.
Scientists expected the outermost layer of Venus’ crust would grow thicker and thicker over time given its apparent lack of forces that would drive the crust back into the planet’s interior. But the paper, published in Nature Communications, proposes a crust metamorphism process based on rock density and melting cycles.
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
Night of the Living Dead being public domain is the fault of the film’s distributor, who didn’t put the required copyright notice on the theatrical prints. This error occurred after the film’s title was changed from its original moniker Night of the Flesh Eaters. Prints with that title contained the copyright notice, but when new prints were created using the title Night of the Living Dead, the copyright notice was forgotten.
So you’ve made a thing. I’ll pretend it’s a blog post, though it doesn’t really matter. If people read your thing, some would like it, and some wouldn’t.
You should try to make a good thing, that many people would like. That presents certain challenges. But our subject today is only how to give your thing a title.
With the following code, we can check whether a year 0 ≤ y ≤ 102499 is a leap year with only about 3 CPU instructions:
bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) {
return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976;
}
How does this work? The answer is surprisingly complex.
Ongelooflijk — zo ongeveer elke oude veldslag simuleren op een kaart.
How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take? Shockingly, the answer is about one molecule—we actually do share breaths with Caesar! And, by extension, every breath we take is composed of the previous breaths of everyone who ever lived—Socrates, Lincoln, Einstein, etc. Isn’t that crazy?
To summarize: The bird in this scene does not live where it’s supposed to, look like it’s supposed to, or sound like it’s supposed to. To put this in terms of mammals, it’s as if a two-toed sloth climbed up to Bill Murray’s window, howled like some unknown species of canine, and Cameron Diaz identified the howl as a sea otter, saying that sea otters live in only one place on Earth: Carmel, California.
Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
Stretching 321 kilometers across the highland deserts of Mongolia, the Gobi Wall is part of an extensive wall system that once spanned from China into Mongolia. Until now, its origins, function, and historical context remained largely unknown. Through an ambitious international expedition combining remote sensing, pedestrian surveys, and targeted excavations, Professor Shelach-Lavi and his team have uncovered compelling new evidence about the wall’s construction and purpose.
When you or I think about chess, what pieces do we picture? What pieces do people in other countries picture? What did people in the past picture? This is a timeline of chess set designs through history.
