US nuclear weapons are aging quickly. With few spare parts, how long can they last?
Egypt is moving their capital. It’s been in Cairo since the 10th century or so, when it was moved from Alexandria to a backwater in order to better capture traffic coming from the Sahara, sub-saharan Africa going to the holy cities. Prior to that, it moved around, but it’s been in Cairo for over 1000 years now and is the 6th largest city in the world, and I believe the largest in Africa. I also think this will be the first time that the capital of Egypt is not directly on the Nile…
An unpopular autocrat decided to build an entirely new capital city for Egypt? That’s going to go well.
wasn’t that a subplot in wonder woman 84?
Makes a fabulous opera though.
Been there, bought the linen tunic. Akhenaten was pretty visionary for his times.
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I have no words:
Hmmm…GenX, general anxiety, generating awareness. This speaks to me.
’Zombie’ fish startle onlookers in Oulu
Rural affairs-focused Maaseudun Tulevaisuus reports on an unusual phenomenon in Oulu caused by a parasite brought to Finland by accident.
Nature photographer Veera Kalevaleinen told the paper how she spotted a large number of fish jumping and twitching on top of the ice off Oulu’s Toppilansaari.
“It looks pretty wild when there’s an endless number of fish jumping on top of the ice,” she said. “It was pretty shocking.”
What makes the phenomenon more unusual, Maaseudun Tulevaisuus writes, is that the fish are dead. Despite this, they hop onto the ice and continue to bounce, twist and jerk, the paper reports.
“The parasite appears to have arrived in Finland via a cargo ship’s ballast tank,” expert Jaakko Viheltäjä of the Finnish Museum of Natural History told MT.
“We don’t think they pose an immediate danger to humans. However, I personally would not touch them with bare hands,” he added.
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Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth up to $22bn
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to… Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
I love these pictures…
Best summer internship gig, ever.
Just imagine the photos for the “What I Did This Summer” report. 
The power of memes!
