At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry...
The evidence comes from a deep-sea sediment core taken off the coast of Portugal. This newly discovered cold snap happened about 1.15 million years ago, causing early humans to leave or die off. It perhaps extended throughout the Mediterranean to as far as southwestern Asia.
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1086439...
What a journey for this beetle!
True for all third countries though, not only the US.
With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food
The day is young, but it’s unlikely I’ll run into another question hed and actually want to read the story.
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1207808...
In 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later
Ideas can come from all sorts of places, and inspiration can hit in a flash—think of Archimedes supposedly yelling “Eureka! Eureka!” in the bath when he realized that irregular items could be accurately measured through water displacement. But sometimes, it’s fiction, not reality, that provides the spark of inspiration....