Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 024
Welcome to Season 03. It's been a while. Going to try and make this better again this year.
Things I Have Enjoyed
Surface Treatment, an animation of changing land use. I also like the beats that play underneath the video. It's by Hunter Wolff.
This comparison of European Rail Operators. (Spoiler: Eurostar sucks.)
This data on price and potency of various drugs across the EU.
David Lynch being a madman for a relentless 8 minutes and 30 seconds
The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations (1111)
Things I Have Learnt
The Guinness World Record for Sheep To Jumper is 4 hours, 45 minutes and 53 seconds.
About the tradition of Haalarit in Finland. I really want my own. I especially like the idea of swapping a part of your suit with a romantic partner.
The UK has a National Emergency Salt Reserve, holding 260 000 tonnes of salt. I love how it is described as "the salt of last resort".
There are nuclear shelters in the Prague Metro.
Somebody found a new Mersenne Prime. It really drives home the beauty of hexidecimal that "If you were to write the latest Mersenne prime in hexadecimal, it would be a 1 followed by 34 069 960 Fs." Apparently the 36-year old discoverer spent two million dollars of their own money on cloud computing to carry out the search.
The End
Alby