Interesting Links for 29-08-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit

(tags:children archeology Israel )

2. Trump faces new indictment over his efforts to interfere with 2020 election

(tags:usa politics crime coup )

3. Labour knew they were going to have to make massive cuts after the election, they just refused to talk about it

(tags:Labour austerity UK video )

4. We have discovered the best armour for fighting dragons in!

(tags:dragons armour fruit wtf )

5. Musk, xAI accused of worsening Memphis smog with unauthorized turbines

(tags:ai environment twitter OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

The tags on (4) became unexpected.

[simont]

And yet completely appropriate!

[mountainkiss]

The caption was deliberately obscure.

[fub]

Pedantic nerd mode: pineapple is not a fruit, it's a stem. So it's a vegetable in the same way that tomato is a fruit, I guess ;)

[andrewducker]

Biologically, yes.

Culinary, no.

[mountainkiss]

Who knew? Thank you!

[ckd]

Obligatory "D&D stats explained with tomatoes":

"Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad."

Best comment: "A tomato based fruit salad would simply be salsa."

Best response to said comment: "GUYS I FOUND THE BARD!"

[ninetydegrees]

5) You mean on top of having already ruined the area where Starbase is?

[bens_dad]

I was not expecting a serious answer for 4 !

I should not have been surprised, since I know that given equal masses (not volumes) of red hot iron and ice, there should be liquid water left when equilibrium is reached.

Is there something "odd" about an iron ball cooling - does the inside cool as quickly as the outside ? It should since iron is a good heat conductor and there is a lot of outside and only a little inside, but does it ?

[fanf]

1) Call Penny Bendall! https://stories.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/kangxi-vases-conservation/

[anna_wing]

That was the first thing that I thought of! I was visiting the Fitz just after this Unfortunate Incident, and the docents talked about nothing else.

[agoodwinsmith]

Wow. That was a very interesting read. Thank you.