Nik H
@nikh.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, and content shuffler. Bibliophile. Sharing daily eclectica and ephemera, and library/book shop porn, that I find along my way.
Me, shamelessly packing up my words and pictures, heading for the latest Twitter replacement. 🙄
July 6, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Me, shamelessly packing up my words and pictures, heading for the latest Twitter replacement. 🙄
The hundred folds in a chef's toque - their traditional tall, pleated hardware - allegedly represent the hundred ways to cook an egg.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toque
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toque
July 5, 2023 at 9:47 PM
The hundred folds in a chef's toque - their traditional tall, pleated hardware - allegedly represent the hundred ways to cook an egg.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toque
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toque
“To order a library is to exercise, in a quiet and modest way, the art of criticism.” - Jorge Borges.
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July 5, 2023 at 6:30 PM
“To order a library is to exercise, in a quiet and modest way, the art of criticism.” - Jorge Borges.
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Due to their efficient reflection of heat, Polar Bear fur maintains the same temperature as the air around it, making them relatively “invisible” to an infrared camera.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
July 5, 2023 at 4:01 PM
Due to their efficient reflection of heat, Polar Bear fur maintains the same temperature as the air around it, making them relatively “invisible” to an infrared camera.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
Due to thermal expansion, The Eiffel Tower may be as much as 15 cm (6") taller in the summer.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion
July 5, 2023 at 11:04 AM
Due to thermal expansion, The Eiffel Tower may be as much as 15 cm (6") taller in the summer.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion
Today, in 1996, the first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly, a female Finn Dorset sheep, was born near Edinburgh. Named after Dolly Parton, she died in February 2003, and her remains are currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
July 5, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Today, in 1996, the first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly, a female Finn Dorset sheep, was born near Edinburgh. Named after Dolly Parton, she died in February 2003, and her remains are currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
The largest organism on earth is a Armillaria ostoyae fungus measuring over 2,384 acres (965 hectares) in Oregon's Blue Mountains.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/_ostoyae
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/_ostoyae
July 3, 2023 at 8:37 PM
The largest organism on earth is a Armillaria ostoyae fungus measuring over 2,384 acres (965 hectares) in Oregon's Blue Mountains.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/_ostoyae
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/_ostoyae
Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson holds the U.S. record for cumulative time in space – 665 days – a joint record for the most space walks by any U.S. astronaut, and the record for the most spacewalk time for a female astronaut.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson
July 3, 2023 at 9:24 AM
Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson holds the U.S. record for cumulative time in space – 665 days – a joint record for the most space walks by any U.S. astronaut, and the record for the most spacewalk time for a female astronaut.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson
The Boulevard du Temple in Paris, by Louis Daguerre from his window in spring 1838. A shoe cleaner and his client remained stationary enough to appear during the exposure, making this the first known recorded image of a human.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
July 3, 2023 at 6:55 AM
The Boulevard du Temple in Paris, by Louis Daguerre from his window in spring 1838. A shoe cleaner and his client remained stationary enough to appear during the exposure, making this the first known recorded image of a human.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
The genitalia of the male blue whale is the largest in the animal kingdom, commonly cited as having an average length of 2.5 to 3 metres and a diameter of 30 to 36 centimetres.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale_penis
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale_penis
July 2, 2023 at 9:28 PM
The genitalia of the male blue whale is the largest in the animal kingdom, commonly cited as having an average length of 2.5 to 3 metres and a diameter of 30 to 36 centimetres.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale_penis
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale_penis
Dr. Wernher von Braun briefs Astronaut John Glenn, in the control room of the Vehicle Test Section, Quality Assurance Division, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6
July 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Dr. Wernher von Braun briefs Astronaut John Glenn, in the control room of the Vehicle Test Section, Quality Assurance Division, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6
Factory worker manually bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania (1897).
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz
July 1, 2023 at 7:00 AM
Factory worker manually bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania (1897).
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz
Today, in 1908, a giant fireball flattened 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in probably the largest meteor impact event in recorded history.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
June 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Today, in 1908, a giant fireball flattened 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in probably the largest meteor impact event in recorded history.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Part of the IBM 305 Random Access Memory Accounting (RAMAC) system, a maintenance crew loads five megabytes of memory into a Pan Am aircraft (1956).
🔗 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
🔗 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
June 30, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Part of the IBM 305 Random Access Memory Accounting (RAMAC) system, a maintenance crew loads five megabytes of memory into a Pan Am aircraft (1956).
🔗 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
🔗 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
One from time working for Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Known in the press as 'El Fusilado,' Wenceslao Moguel Herrera was captured in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution and survived some 9-10 rounds to the body during execution by firing squad.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Moguel
Known in the press as 'El Fusilado,' Wenceslao Moguel Herrera was captured in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution and survived some 9-10 rounds to the body during execution by firing squad.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Moguel
June 30, 2023 at 12:20 PM
One from time working for Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Known in the press as 'El Fusilado,' Wenceslao Moguel Herrera was captured in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution and survived some 9-10 rounds to the body during execution by firing squad.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Moguel
Known in the press as 'El Fusilado,' Wenceslao Moguel Herrera was captured in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution and survived some 9-10 rounds to the body during execution by firing squad.
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Moguel
Wearing headphones for just an hour can increase the bacteria in our ears by up to 700 x.
🔗 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/
🔗 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/
June 29, 2023 at 9:48 PM
Wearing headphones for just an hour can increase the bacteria in our ears by up to 700 x.
🔗 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/
🔗 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/
Sister Mary Keller. The first person in the USA to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller
June 29, 2023 at 9:38 PM
Sister Mary Keller. The first person in the USA to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller
US physicist and 1944 physics Nobel Prize winner, Isidor Isaac Rabi, using the flat cylindrical vacuum chamber of a cyclotron to grill hotdog sausages.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi
June 24, 2023 at 5:45 PM
US physicist and 1944 physics Nobel Prize winner, Isidor Isaac Rabi, using the flat cylindrical vacuum chamber of a cyclotron to grill hotdog sausages.
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi
🔗 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi