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Depleted uranium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depleted uranium DU is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 U-238. Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. Because U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, natural uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by [...]

AccuWeather.com
Fitness Weather
Running Index

They have indexes for damn near everything; mosquitoes, barbecuing, dog walking, hair frizz, in addition to the regular Air Quality, UV, Arthritis, and Pollen indexes.
Today’s Running index was very good, which was good because we ran on the track today to try to get some sun. Hopefully my farmer’s tan isn’t quite [...]

Velociraptor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Velociraptor was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 2.07 m (6.8 ft) long, 0.5 m (1.6 ft) high at the hip, and weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb).

Craig at puntabulous taught me that velociraptors were much smaller than Jurassic Park led me to believe. In fact, [...]

VWvortex Forums: DIY guide to switchblade key remote replacement
Programming the remote…
If you have two (or more) working keys of your car, then you also the option of doing it without using a VAG-COM. Just do the following:
1. Insert any one of the working keys into the ignition lock and switch to the ON position without [...]

Words that start with N—The Devil’s Dictionary X™
non sequitur
the art of knowing precisely at what moment to describe an aardvark.
This isn’t the original Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce but it has some more current evil definitions.
There are other funny ones, I just couldn’t find any quite as hilarious as the definition for non sequitur [...]

YouTube - parkour soccer
It may or not be fake, and it definitely isn’t parkour, but it is awesome tricking.

Cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generally, cyanoacrylate is an acrylic resin which rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions), forming long, strong chains, joining the bonded surfaces together. Because the presence of moisture causes the glue to set, exposure to moisture in the air can cause a tube or bottle of glue [...]

Drought could close nuclear power plants - Weather- msnbc.com
Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
If only we could melt some [...]

Rear-view mirror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This manual tilt mirror is made of a piece of glass that is wedge-shaped in cross section—its front side and back (silvered) side are not parallel, unlike normal mirror glass.
So thats how they work!
I still don’t know how the automatic dimming ones work, some of them probably have electronics [...]

The Transistor’s Birthday - Forbes.com
Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world’s first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so [...]

Lawmaker pulls Nazi symbol charges | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
BERLIN (Reuters) - A left-wing German politician withdrew charges against online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Friday for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany.
Wikimedia Deutschland had rejected the accusations and said the symbols were clearly used for educational and documentational purposes.
Did she want them [...]

Howstuffworks “How Snow Makers Work”
Snowmaking plays a part in agriculture as well. A good coating of snow keeps a lot of the earth’s heat from escaping into the atmosphere, so farmers often use it as an insulator for winter crops. The insulation effect keeps the crops from freezing, even when the temperature drops well [...]

Dumb Math Tests a Canadian Thing
Like all winners who live in Canada, the 17-year-old resident of Mississauga, Ontario, had to answer a math question to claim his prize. The question — ostensibly a test of the winner’s mathematical skills — was typical of today’s Canadian product sweepstakes: Multiply 90 by 2, divide by 6 and [...]

Consumer Reports corrects “restless leg” drug TV ad - Boing Boing
Consumer Reports explains that Requip reduces symptoms in up to 73% of people (with scary potential side effects) , while a placebo is effective on 57% of people with RLS (”restless leg syndrome”).
That doesn’t seem like that great of a success rate. More than [...]

Howstuffworks “How Tires Work”
What All the Numbers Mean
A nice break down of what all the different numbers and code letters on a tire mean.  I am looking for winter tires / wheels and I always forget what all the ##/##\## whatever means.