September 25, 2024

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-09-25

This week's highlights include lab-grown diamonds and caffeinated ramen!

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Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared links.

This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈

Lab-grown diamonds - Works in Progress

Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change | Quanta Magazine

An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe.

Caffeinated Ramen Noodles Are Here

Nippon launched Boost Noodles, Taipa-style ramen to solve the age-old problem of how you can eat ramen while also simultaneously participating in an online gaming battle all night.

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

The Space Command fixed problems we still live with today.

Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations | Grist

Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations, and neighborhood EV chargers. Could New York do it too?

Note: Some images via Unsplash

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Cuthrell Consulting LLC
Attn: Jay Cuthrell
1903 Live Oak St #92
Beaufort, NC 28516-0092

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