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Horse manure was considered a serious risk in NYC. The banana skin (and the inevitable slip that followed) was a euphemism for slipping on horse manure in the street.

Surely a large part of the problem is thinking it's OK to leave the the hire scooters on public property wherever is convenient for the customer. Can't wait for the flying-vehicle …

No, it really is just a couple of fancy words strung together. Let's deconstruct it: 1) Space -- Einstein has shown that it's really Space-Time 2) Mind -- there is no real agreemen…

>If there is no money that get infused into the local environment around the corals then less people will work to fix it. The ocean has warmed to the point where to coral cannot su…

Decades ago the reef was endangered by run-off from agriculture (fertilisers, agri-chemicals etc) and I believe this has been managed, since it's largely under human control (ie, w…

>"Time is the Mind of Space" That sounds wonderful but doesn't mean anything. An interesting quote from the article: For many, Bergson’s defeat represented a victory of “rationalit…

The thought that pigeons were high technology, too, is an interesting one.

No, 2001 was the millennium shift. The year 2000 was the last year of the decade, century and millennium. 1999 was when the party started, of course.

I'm not sure about the Gruen Effect, but can verify the Doorway Effect is real. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...

Anti-lock brakes never yielded the accident reduction expected, primarily because drivers used the improved braking performance to drive faster in poorer conditions. I guess the AE…

> ... chip in Unintentional pun. The US public seems to have a huge reluctance to use the chips in the cards too. It's swipe and sign. (I'm also from Australia and signing for a cr…

Like search and rescue operations, these are essentially exercises for defence forces. You can't make opportunities like these.

Ah, no that's something else: shutter distortion. This was made on a large format camera -- probably something like 4 x 5 inches -- with a focal plane shutter. The shutter has a hu…