Year: 2021

I picked up a new Moleskine notebook the other day. They make wonderfully tactile notebooks. They just feel right. I also like to start my year in September. In fact, I consider the year to be about three parts. There’s September through Christmas, then after new year to summer, then summer and back around again. […]

This field probably got tainted by the likes of Erik von Daniken, but I do find it fascinating and have long considered that myths and legends come from something that actually happened. The study of it is called ‘Geomythology’: American volcanologist Dorothy Vitaliano coined the term in a 1967 lecture (basing her ideas on those […]

Ever wanted to know how an internal combustion engine works in detail? Bartosz Ciechanowski has a fascinatingly detailed breakdown of each part, how they all fit together and even how each part interacts with the other parts. Beautifully diagrammed “Unchallenged for decades, the internal combustion engines in cars are slowly being supplanted by their electric […]

There’s 21 tons of Chinese Long March 5b rocket making an uncontrolled re-entry tomorrow, possibly, as nobody is sure yet where it’ll enter the atmosphere. Cutting methane emissions will help reduce the rate of climate change while boosting health and crop production says a new UN report: But there are ways to cut methane emissions […]