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Thank you for sharing this - it reminds of the film adaption of "The Peasants" novel which uses a painted animation technique made up of thousands and thousands of paintings. Quite…

X-ray, in some languages (like Polish) the abbreviation comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen_(unit)

Ah, memories flood back of LAN or dial-up sessions with friends on custom maps like de_747 [1] 1: https://gamebanana.com/mods/82979 I still contend it is one of the most atmospheri…

There was a great BBC docudrama in 2003 called Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. [1] First episode is about the SS Great Eastern, an iron ship that was the largest ship built …

> Almost everything always has much more thought given to it than it might first appear. A credo to live by in work and in general - one of the most terrifying phrases in the Engli…

Engineering Explained made a good breakdown and analysis video on the physics of the truck: "Does The Tesla Semi Make Any Sense?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv44W7xa4IU

The risk with this is everytime your earnings go up, your expenditure follows suit. If your motivation to earn more is because you spend too much - that underlying reason isn't goi…

Filling up on fuel in litres and then using miles per (Imperial) gallon to measure fuel efficiency is wonderfully convoluted.

Renting out public housing

Not only totally unprofessional, it is also bad Project Managing as a typo is a common mistake. So rather than making childish comments, I'd be asking how we could improve the debu…

> Homeopathy isn't widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. [0] Luckily this is no longer the case (in…

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

A rather famous example in the UK, is of Gerald Ratner, a company chairman attacking his own product. [1] [1] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573380/Doing-a-Ratne...

http://xkcd.com/1167/ via https://twitter.com/crell/status/296506190190489600