There was likely no shortage of ale and good cheer at a recently unearthed Viking drinking hall, discovered in northern Scotland. Source: https://www.livescience.com/viking-drinking-hall-scotland.html
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A big earthquake in the US Pacific Northwest?
Most people don’t associate the US Pacific Northwest with earthquakes, but maybe they should. It’s home to the 600-mile (1,000-km) Cascadia megathrust fault, stretching from northern California to Canada’s Vancouver Island. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/cascadia-megathrust-fault-earthquake-probability…
Americans Are Making Phone Farms To Scam Free Money From Advertisers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Netflix thought I was four different people. I was being paid through an app to watch its trailers over and over again, racking up digital points I could eventually trade for Amazon gift cards or real cash. But rather than just use my own phone, I bought four Android devices to churn through…
Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines
Analysing ancient pots has revealed the drinking habits of Celts in France. Over 2000 years ago they were drinking beer, mead and imported Greek wines Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206989-ancient-celts-were-partial-to-beer-mead-and-imported-greek-wines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Three Geeks Rescue a 50-Year-Old IBM 360 Mainframe From an Abandoned Building
In late April of 2019 Slashdot reader Adam Bradley and engineer Chris Blackburn were “sitting in a pub on a Monday night when Chris happened across a somewhat unusual eBay listing…” They eventually submitted the winning bid for an IBM 360 Model 20 mainframe — €3,710 (about $4,141 USD) — and proceeded to pick it up from an abandoned building “in…
Google Images + Facial Recognition Find Thief Who Looked Like Woody Harrelson
“The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor,” reports the Associated Press:
Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology highlighted the April 2017 episode in “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” a report on what it says are flawed practices in law enforcement’s…
How Microdosing with Smaller Doses of Cannabis Can Help with Anxiety and Stress
Samoon Ahmad, M.D. – For ages, the cannabis plant has been consumed to alleviate anxiety and stress. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/05/01/how-microdosing-with-smaller-doses-of-cannabis-can-help-with-anxiety-and-stress/…
Vox Sentences: “Is this person a citizen of the United States?”
Source: https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/4/23/18513267/vox-sentences-census-citizenship-supreme-court…
U.S. Presidential Candidate Addresses Questions About Extraterrestrial Invasion
If you’re worried about invasions from outer space (or from inside the Earth or from another dimension), you may want to listen to what U.S. presidential candidate Seth Moulton (another one?) has to say about how he would handle the situation if he was sitting in the Oval Office. Will this become one of the… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/u-s-presidential-candidate-addresses-questions-about-extraterrestrial-invasion/…
This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
Source: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked…