https://howthingsfly.si.edu/activities/paper-airplane
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/glidpaper.html
http://www.infosnow.ne.jp/~suzuki-a/
https://www.elecom.co.jp/printgogo/illustration/plane/index.html
Top story in one of the local newspapers:
(“Customs office is drowning in dildoes.”)
[ETA: Originally the story oneboxed, including a rather NSFW photo, hence the spoiler blur. Why that disappeared IDK.]
Amateur Urban Ornithology Shocker:
The raven whose daily routine includes sitting on an old television aerial on the roof of a house across the street for a bit sat on the VHF antenna instead of the UHF antenna as usual.
What is going on?
More free courses:
Posted a few of those for my two classes!
Maneiro!
I made some styrofoam fighters using the graphics of this page. Do you want to know something? They really flew! Turning it into a real warbird was easy, you just needed to attach a paper clip on the nose and launch it carefully.
https://juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/NakajimaKi43HayabusaOscar
https://juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/NakajimaKi84Frank
https://juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/LavochkinLa5
https://juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/LavochkinLaGG3
https://juniorgeneral.org/index.php/figure/view/NorthAmericanA36Apache
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Friends, I saw some videos here of some celebrities inviting people to stay at their home … but try going into Schwarza’s or Taylor Swift’s house to see how they react!
Amazon teams with SXSW to stream a one-time online film festival for 10 days that will be free to anyone w/ an Amazon account.
As cool as that sounds, I’m not able to bring myself to use anything supplied by Amazon. Especially after seeing bags of rice going for $150.
ETA: (I have no idea why that got formatted in bold.)
As long as rich men get to become richer, this entire… blip… will have been worth it! /s
Hey, that’s a comforting bit of normality, that is.