Encounter #74: Smells Like Anne
Salmon sperm, poop equations, and living the Amiga life.
Show Notes
Salmon sperm, poop equations, and living the Amiga life.
Show Notes
Pondering My Orb | Know Your Meme
Salmon sperm as plastic
Scientists have made a plastic cup out of salmon sperm — yes, sperm
Salmon Sperm DNA, sheared (10 mg/mL)
Get yours now from Thermo Fisher Scientific, only $289 for 10 tubes!
Retro tech
Personal Computing On An Amiga In 2021
Living for a week without modern computers. It's amazing how much you can still do today with an Amiga.
GeoWorks: The Other Windows
Or, the history of AOL for DOS.
Unlike the original GEOS for 8-bit Commodore systems, the x86 GeoWorks looked more like Motif on UNIX systems.
The original GEOS for Commodore 64 and 128 essentially turned them into 8-bit classic Macs.
How PC/GEOS found a 5th life as an open source DOS shell
Paid microwave reviews
Potato News
The ancient potato of the future | The Counter
A potato cultivated from near the beginning of the Holocene is only now receiving serious study. What secrets are held by the Four Corners potato?
Historic display of US chipping potatoes at tradeshow in Shanghai, China | PotatoPro
Kyoukai Senki
English title: AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline
coldacid has given it a second try, and despite its shonen-as-shit traits is actually enjoying it now.
Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, incredibly important study finds | Live Science
You don't wanna be on the recieving end of a penguin.
Living the high-up life
10 People Who Have Lived In A Tree - Listverse
The motives for living in a tree may vary, but it's scientific fact that trees provide incredible health benefits
In 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill climbed to the top of a 1,000-year-old redwood tree that was 55 metres tall (180 ft). She climbed that treacherous height to tree-site for one week to protest the clear-cutting of an ancient redwood forest.
738 days passed before she returned to the ground
Closer to God: The Holy Saint Who Lived 4 Decades on Top of a Column
St. Simeon the Stylite
Then, while passing through a small town in Syria, he spotted his solution: a column. If he couldn’t escape the crowds by moving horizontally, he would find peace by moving vertically.