A scientific fact/tidbit you recently learned that you thought was interesting

[Helen]

Ok, ok. I admit it. We're cool.

 

[Wudang]

I remember being taught about continental drift and tectonic plates around 1970.

Somewhere I have (or had) a Chas Addams cartoon with a husband obviously trying to sleep while his angry wife is sitting up in bed yelling "How can you just lie there and accept continental drift?"

 

[malbui]

Ok, ok. I admit it. We're cool.

I'm next in Sweden in April and I can't wait to sit in a café in the Gamla Stan and hope that some of the cool and charisma rubs off on me.

 

[Helen]

I'm next in Sweden in April and I can't wait to sit in a café in the Gamla Stan and hope that some of the cool and charisma rubs off on me.

A café in Gamla Stan? You have outed yourself, we'll all know you're a tourist If I still lived there, I could have shown you some really cool cafes, that probably aren't cool any longer

And charisma? Swedes? Charisn'tma is more like us - we smile mysteriously because we're painfully shy, not because we're glamorous!

 

[Darat]

Somewhere I have (or had) a Chas Addams cartoon with a husband obviously trying to sleep while his angry wife is sitting up in bed yelling "How can you just lie there and accept continental drift?"

 

[Puppycow]

What happens to time inside a black hole?

 

[malbui]

A café in Gamla Stan? You have outed yourself, we'll all know you're a tourist If I still lived there, I could have shown you some really cool cafes, that probably aren't cool any longer

And charisma? Swedes? Charisn'tma is more like us - we smile mysteriously because we're painfully shy, not because we're glamorous!

What can I say? In spite of all of my efforts, like eating lots of cinnamon and cardamom rolls and playing in a wilfully obscure metal band, I'll never qualify as Swedish.

 

[Helen]

What can I say? In spite of all of my efforts, like eating lots of cinnamon and cardamom rolls and playing in a wilfully obscure metal band, I'll never qualify as Swedish.

Don't worry, we get so excited when someone likes us, that you could expect to be adopted by at least 75% of us. We'll play all cool if you praise us, but on the inside, we're jumping up and down with exexhilaration

 

[bigred]

Finally:

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear

After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.

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