Nerd Alert

https://medium.com/okluffa/its-normal-to-hate-your-voice-e3901756f171

It’s normal to hate your voice But you don’t have to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyZSBqQ813c

This Is 'Lola,' a 5,700-Year-Old Woman Whose Entire Life Is Revealed in Her 'Chewing Gum' Thousands of years ago, a young Neolithic woman in what is now Denmark chewed on a piece of birch pitch.

Science Experiment Shows How 25,000 Random Dice Neatly Assemble into Perfect Circles Turns out that dice like to be shaken, not stirred.

Nice one

What did one tectonic plate say when it bumped into another one?

-"Sorry, my fault"

New Evidence That Grandmothers Were Crucial for Human Evolution A computer simulation supports the idea that grandmothers helped our species evolve social skills and longer lives

Planned Obsolescence Obselescence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

This is why we can't have nice things This video is about stuff: light bulbs, printers, phones and why they aren't better. Go to https://NordVPN.com/veritasium and use code VERITASIUM to get a 2-...

A photon checks in at a hotel, the concierge notices he has no luggage, the photon responds, "I'm traveling light"

What looked like a rock on the surface was a giant statue discovered on Easter Island this week, The ones not buried have been weathered to the point that none of the detailed carving on the Moai are visible.

Ethereum's 27-year-old creator is now a billionaire

This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight A lightweight sensor attached to alpine swifts reveals that the small migratory birds can remain aloft for more than 200 days without touching down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face

Cutting off the nose to spite the face - Wikipedia "Cutting off the nose to spite the face" is an expression to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object o...

The sooner you expose a baby to a second language, the smarter they’ll be Just hearing two languages helps babies develop cognitive skills before they even speak. Here's how - and how you can help them develop those skills.

After Menopause, Killer Whale Moms Become Pod Leaders When their reproductive years are done, females take on new roles as wise survival guides

https://schoolhouse.world

schoolhouse.world Schoolhouse.world is a free, peer-to-peer tutoring platform in which anyone, anywhere can receive live help.

People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up—or Keep Talking—Science Confirms We are really bad at navigating a key transition point during one of the most basic social interactions

Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution

MARS Virtual Tour - What's Mars surface looks like to you?
NASA’s Perseverance Navcams 360° photo (edited by Hugh Hou )

How to experience this in your Oculus VR headset:
1. Save this post (Add this to your “Saved Items”)
2. Save it on a list
3. Put on your Oculus Quest 2 / Quest 1 VR headset. On the left side of your Oculus homepage menu, click on “Saved”
4. You should be able to see your saved Mars 360 photo
5. Click on “Watch” and it will open an Oculus Browser
6. The 360 photo will load
7. On the top left corner of the photo, you will see the “Enter VR” button
8. Click “Enter VR” and it will go into a full immersive view of the Mars 360 photo
Alternatively, you can copy the Facebook post’s URL and open your Oculus Browser on your Quest 1 or Quest 2 VR headset, and view it directly.
I hope you can enjoy this unique experience in immersive virtual reality!

From NASA - This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.

Disclaimer: the original photo does not have the full sky, I edited the sky to have a full 360 experience inside a VR headset like Oculus Quest 2. The sky does not represent the real sky from Mars.

Credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover