According to Piper Jaffray’s fall 2019 survey, teens prefer watching videos on YouTube more than Netflix. CNBC reports: Piper Jaffray found 37% of teens surveyed are streaming video most often on the Google-owned platform, narrowly edging out longtime leader Netflix, which came in at 35%. The firm attributed the shift to YouTube’s diversified content library, which includes a “wide array of…
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A year with 13 Friday the 13ths?
Should we ever adopt the International Fixed Calendar, we’d have 13 months in a year, with each month containing a Friday the 13th. Friggatriskaidekaphobia – aka fear of Friday the 13th – would be rampant! Or not. Read more about this calendar system here. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/13-month-calendar-would-mean-13-friday-the-13ths…
The Crab Nebula was an exploding star
The Crab Nebula, about 6,500 light-years from Earth, is the scattered fragments of a supernova, or exploding star, observed by earthly skywatchers in the year 1054. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/crab-nebula-was-an-exploding-star…
The World’s Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn’t Bitcoin
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. From a report: While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in this often murky corner of finance, data from CoinMarketCap.com show that the token with the highest daily and monthly…
Falling Fireballs Crashed in Chile Last Week. They Weren’t Meteorites, Experts Say.
Chilean officials are investigating a curious collection of burning objects that fell onto parts of the country last week. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fireballs-fall-on-chile.html
Why leaves change color in fall
The vivid yellows and oranges of autumn leaves are there throughout spring and summer, but hidden. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-do-tree-leaves-turn-red-in-fall…
Iraq Shuts Down Internet Access As Mass Protests Turn Violent
dryriver shares a report from Euronews: Iraq’s government shut off internet access, imposed curfews and deployed elite forces to secure key facilities on Wednesday amid widespread protests aimed at toppling the country’s regime. Five people were killed and more than 200 were wounded in the largest display of public anger against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s year-old government. Domestic instability could…
Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube?
dryriver writes: BitChute is a video-hosting website like YouTube, except that it states its mission as being “anti-censorship” and is Peer-To-Peer, WebTorrent based. “It is based on the peer-to-peer WebTorrent system, a JavaScript torrenting program that can run in a web browser,” according to Wikipedia. “Users who watch a video also seed it. BitChute does not rely on advertising, and users…
2019’s Arctic sea ice minimum 2nd-lowest on record
Arctic sea ice likely reached its smallest extent for 2019 on September 18. At 1.6 million square miles (4.15 million square km), that minimum is now in a 3-way tie for 2nd-smallest in the satellite record. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/2019-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-2nd-lowest-video…
SAT Scores Fall As More Students Take the Test
According to the College Board, average scores dropped on the SAT this past test-taking cycle, with a greater percentage of high-school students not ready for college-level work. The Wall Street Journal reports: A record 2.2 million 2019 graduates took the college entrance exam, up from 2018’s record of 2.1 million. The increase is partly attributed to more districts offering students the…