tingilinde

global warming and a tradition at risk

A hair-raising challenge in Canada.

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It turns out there’s a science to making strands of hair look like frosty ramen noodles. Participants dip their heads underwater, emerge into the frigid air and then employ their creativity in styling updos that vary in appearance from crazy spikes to tangled mops. Some have the helping hands of friends, while others fly solo. Once coifed, participants ring a bell to ask for a staff member to shoot their pic.

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ironing things out

Jim noted this one - it's been around for a decade, but still notable

 

It turns out the Chinese are more hardcore

 

rock music

The real thing, although it gets old quickly.

a tip of the hat to George

 

 

important safety tip

Don't take metal into an MRI.  Also don't take a gun into an MRI when you've signed a paper saying you're not taking anything metal in.

 

 

 

a guide to predicting the year

From a 14^th century Italian merchant....  predictions based on what day of the week January 1^st falls on. 

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If the first of January comes on a Sunday, the winter will be warm, and the spring will be damp, and the summer and autumn will be windy. There will be an abundance of sheep, and honey, and little wine, and few beans. Many young people will die, and there will be many thefts, and any news will be of princes and of kings.

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medbeds?

Never heard of them.  Something from the conspiracy theory crowd.

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But people have very different ideas about what they actually are. Some insist that the technology is secret, unlikely to be encountered by mere mortals, hidden from the public by billionaires and the "deep state". The more conspiratorial theorising includes speculation about "alien technology" and bizarre claims like the idea that John F Kennedy is still alive, strapped to a medbed.

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a tip of the hat to Bjaarne

 

a very inefficient method for heating water

a tip of the hat to Greg

there's a time and a place

But bagpipes?

She's obviously good, but it doesn't strike me as the right match.

 

 

fun with a language model

ChatGPT

 

 

it's that time of year again

Big pumpkins, really big pumpkins.

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Is there a limit to how big pumpkins can grow? “I don’t know the answer to that, nor do I think anyone does,” Gienger says. “I would say, in my lifetime, we might see 4,000 pounds.”

Hollender says that research has shown there’s a limit to how big cells can grow, so there must be an upper bound on how big pumpkins can get in the future. “What that limit is, I don’t really know,” she says, “but you’re never going to get a pumpkin as big as a house.”

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