Sunday Funnies

Just don’t play it too late at night

Sleep apnea can not only cause annoying snoring, but the associated lack of sleep can drive people crazy or even kill them. Treatments often include bulky continuous positive airway pressure devices that pump air into a person’s throat to keep their airway open. But an ancient Australian instrument has turned out to be a much ...

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It was Isaac Newton’s 375th Birthday on Jan 4.  Here’s a fun “fact.”  Also, he really “invented” gravity in 1687.  From Pinterest

Want to sound smarter?  Try slipping these words into a casual conversation.  From Mental Floss by way of Smithsonian.

From the first person you greet in the morning to that earthy smell that permeates the air after it rains, the English language is full of very specific words. Here are 10 of them.

1. PETRICHOR

You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek ...

French Daredevils Leap Off a Perfectly Good Mountain into a Moving Airplane

James Bond once did it without a wingsuit. But these guys did it for real.

Read more at Air and Space Magazine

I often talk about how the Internet has changed everything.  On the plus side, it has leveled the economic marketplace so even tiny businesses can compete with gigantic corporations.  There is also the instant availability of knowledge on any subject.  You can be an expert on anything in 20 minutes.  Need to perform an emergency appendectomy?  There’s a YouTube video for that.  Actually, there are a bunch of YouTube videos for that

But then on ...