Mind Rocket

04/02/2024

About 25% of modern medicines are derived from plants first discovered in rainforests.

04/02/2024

The moon is very slowly drifting away from Earth, at a rate of about 3.8 centimetres (1.5 inches ), per year.

04/02/2024

Despite its vast size, all of China officially uses just one time zone.

04/02/2024

There’s a town in Australia, called Coober Pedy, where people live underground to escape the heat.

03/02/2024

The Dead Sea is so salty that it’s almost impossible to sink in it. Renowned for being one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, with a salinity of approximately 34.2%, its high mineral content makes it impossible for most life forms to exist, hence its name.

03/02/2024

The magnetic North Pole is moving at a variable rate of between 40 and 70 kilometres per year, currently making its way towards Russia.

03/02/2024

Lake Hillier in Australia is naturally pink. Scientists think it’s due to algae and bacteria, but they’re not entirely sure.

03/02/2024

Despite being one of the hottest places on Earth, the Sahara Desert received snowfall in 1979.

03/02/2024

About 71% of Earth’s surface is covered in water. However, only 2.5% of that is freshwater, and less than 1% of that freshwater is easily accessible.

05/11/2023

29/10/2023

Switzerland does not allow the ownership of just one guinea pig.

23/10/2023

Our World

19/10/2023

What is the weirdest fact you know?

19/10/2023

Artists

19/10/2023

New book for Christmas?

19/10/2023

Art fact

23/09/2023

https://fb.watch/nemlu5w_xV/

11/10/2021

Exciting…

Images from Nasa's Perseverance rover show it's in a great place to find traces of ancient microbes.

14/07/2021

What do you think about Elon?

"I think you are a bad human being," Musk told Randall Baron, the lawyer for Tesla shareholders who are fighting Tesla's 2016 purchase of SolarCity.

29/09/2020

I Bring Everyday Objects To Life With My Smartphone And No Editing (30 New Pics)

Brilliant

Using my phone, I match images from popular culture and beyond to places, people, and objects to bring them to life, but with a fun twist.

24/08/2020

‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth

Real programming

When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that’s coding—and culture.

26/04/2020

New Scientist

The best quote of the Pandemic so far:

"It is likely to go t**s up at some point. Go easy on yourself."

12/04/2020

COVID-19: Daily new confirmed deaths, rolling 3-day average

There is a lot of confusing data around, however Our World in Data provides a very good rolling three day average of daily deaths. You can also easily add countries.

Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths may not be an accurate count of the true number of deaths from COVID-19.