The HMS Endeavour is famous for being sailed by Capt. James Cook to the South Pacific for a scientific expedition in the late 18th century. But the Endeavour (by then renamed the Lord Sandwich) met its demise in the Atlantic, when it was one of 13 ships the British deliberately sank (or "scuttled") in a Rhode Island harbor during the American Revolution.
If cozying up with wool knit sweaters in the cold winters, bellying up to a bar with a few tourists once in a while, and plenty of solitude sound great to you…
It is part of a Home Office test of technologies to assist with the selling of alcohol.
"When we think of extraction, we think of fossil fuels like coal and gas. Unfortunately, lithium also falls under the same umbrella, despite paving the way for an electric future.. Lithium can be described as the non-renewable mineral that makes renewable energy possible - often touted as the next oil."
Punxsutawney Phil’s “inner circle” summoned him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he had seen his shadow, a message they said Phil communicated in “groundhogese.”
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A pre-pandemic policy on airport usage is pressuring airlines to keep "ghost flights" in the air. The climate impact is massive.
[Wired is, still, behind a paywall. Paper copies can often be found in libraries. This story is also available on Apple News.]
…in acronyms and initialisms.
We're already aware of the terminally boring POTUS, FLOTUS, AND SCOTUS (I'm always worried about spelling that last one); Just this morning I've noticed SOTU (State of the Union) and HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).
OMG, will it ever end?
A controversial new program that uses facial recognition is part of a national effort to verify identities and reduce fraud.
This isn’t a northern Michigan snowstorm. This isn’t even a central Lower Michigan or Grand Rapids snowstorm.
[Michigan is not the M state I live in — here, they're predicting rain. Which is not necessarily good news.]
T he average price for 30 seconds of ad time during the gridiron matchup is $6.5 million this year, up from the $5.5 million CBS fetched for last year’s telecast, according to estimates from ad-tracking firm Kantar.Add in a few truckloads of cash for production and you could be talking about real money here.
My weather app right now insists it "feels like" 9º. But it doesn't. It feels like 20º, and a toasty-warm 20º at that.
"Feels like" is just a random number somebody makes up.
Most snowfall in the Big Apple was in the 7-10 inch range, such as in Central Park which saw 8.3 inches, according to Accuweather meteorologist Alan Reppert.
…but this much snow in Manhattan is an awesome mess. Because there's no place to put the stuff.
You can't just shovel it up or plow it off. When I lived there, back (way back) in the day, they laboriously loaded it into trucks and then dumped it in the river. Maybe they've figured out an easier way since them. Still, it can't be easy.
(There is one advantage if you live there: for a little while. traffic drops to just about none.
And in Central Park, of course, you can just let it lie. Then it's…fun.)
Sunday morning in West Palm Beach, the temp will be 36, with a wind chill at 32, forecasters say. Other locations in South Florida are expecting temps so cold that forecasters are even predicting the "only in Florida" weather calamity known as: Isolated falling iguanas.
