The Official Treehouse Articles Thread

[cory]

China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs.

High-rise hog farms have sprung up nationwide as part of Beijing’s drive to enhance its agricultural competitiveness and reduce its dependence on imports.

www.nytimes.com

 

[cory]

Fart mode

Here's How We Made Our Tesla Model 3 Fart using Emissions Mode

Emissions mode changes the Tesla's turn-signal tone to the unmistakable sound of human flatulence, only one of many amusing add-ons Elon Musk has come up with.

www.caranddriver.com

 

[cory]

This guy is hard as chinese algebra and tuned waaaaay in.

A Psychedelics Pioneer Takes the Ultimate Trip

“Life has been more beautiful, more wonderful than ever,” says Dr. Roland Griffiths, who has stage 4 cancer.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lxskllr]

Cool dude, with an awesome outlook on things. I think my outlook would on the lines of "This is friggin' bullshit!" :^D

 

[cory]

Switzerland Wants Children to Eat Less Chocolate, More Insects

Companies pitch bugs to young consumers, but mealworms don’t fly with Ana: ‘blech.’

www.wsj.com

 

[CurSedVoyce]

You will eat your bugs, own nothing and be happy.

 

[cory]

Sounds about right!

 

[lxskllr]

Old guy runs...

The World’s Oldest Ultramarathon Runner Is Racing against Death | The Walrus

Dag Aabye is eighty-one, lives in an old school bus on a mountain, and is pushing his body to its absolute limits

thewalrus.ca

Here's a quote for cory that was in the article...

If it’s difficult, I’ll do it right away. If it’s impossible, it will take a little longer.

 

[cory]

Geez that was interesting, thx for posting. Excerpted from a book, the blurb of which says it is a cross between Born to Run, The Stranger in the Woods, and Into the Wild, which are 3 books I've read and think very highly of.

 

[cory]

Don't Get Struck By Lightning

Only some 400 Americans are struck by lightning annually. But climbers routinely go to high-risk places during high-risk times of the year.

www.climbing.com

 

[cory]

Which reminds me of a Q I've always had- if you are up in an insulated bucket during a thunder storm, does the boom insulation offer any protection from a lightning strike?

 

[Burnham]

I think it could...the rubber tires of an automobile are supposed to protect from grounding, so protect people inside from lightning. Certainly not sure about either case.

 

[Burnham]

Edit...a myth about tires. But being inside a car does protect one.

Why do car tires protect you from lightning strikes?

Car tires do not protect you from lightning strikes. Although the rubber in a tire acts as an insulator at low voltages, the voltage in a lighting ...

www.wtamu.edu

So I now must doubt the bucket situation would protect.

 

[cory]

Yes, that car info was also noted in the lightning article.

 

[Nutball]

You'd probably be ok if lightning struck a nearby tree, but considering lightning goes through the trouble of taking a roundabout way to the ground miles long, it won't even notice the insulating effects of the boom, and may strike it.

 

[cory]

@kevin bingham

Detroit Takes On Problems That Were Once Beyond Reach

Ten years after becoming the largest American city to file for bankruptcy, Detroit is stepping up code enforcement and sprucing up parks. The new moment carries risks, too.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lxskllr]

Ass holes create habitat...

Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife

Incredibly, once the wells dried up some became nurseries for the germination and establishment of wetland trees.

theconversation.com

 

[CurSedVoyce]

This is interesting...

NASA may have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars 50 years ago

Life may have been discovered on Mars almost 50 years ago, but it could have been unintentionally destroyed.

www.freethink.com

 

[lxskllr]

I think this has turned up here before, but I don't remember reading about increased lumber strength. A short article...

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber

Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

www.openculture.com

 

[cory]

A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon

Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong.

www.nytimes.com

 

[cory]

Nobody thought that was interesting? Hmm

Here's a rad thing re the universe. I suspect watching it on a puter rather than a phone would be optimal

A Beginner’s Guide to Looking at the Universe

A stunning advancement in a long history of stargazing, the James Webb telescope reveals light where once we saw only darkness. Our view of the universe will never be the same.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lxskllr]

I just glossed over the artillery article. I wonder how close you can be to the gun with shielding setup? Seems like an ideal job for a robot. Maybe keep the humans 100' away, and operate the guns electronically?

 

[cory]

Good thinking re robots.

the article basically said certain troops were asked to go hard via mass quantity of artillery shots against isis, many X's more than normal amount of artillery rounds. All those shock waves apparently micro-shredded parts of the soldiers brains causing super weird mental problems and lots of suicides.

 

[Tree09]

I don't get the ny times, so i didn't read them

 

[cory]

the links I posted are free links and can be read by all