@RealShelfy As a Canadian hockey fan and amateur analyst, the tournament was over the second someone from USA hockey wrote down “Free Bird (the guitar solo part)” as the goal song. It simply wasn’t a fair tournament, this song must be banned from all future IIHF tournaments.
We learn more from reading on paper than on screens.
54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative.
The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.
This is the Statue of Unity in India, completed in 2018.
At 240 metres tall including its base - nearly three times the height of the Statue of Liberty - it's the tallest statue in the world.
Here are eleven more marvels of colossal sculpture...
It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.
Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.
Extraordinary.
https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd
Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective.
Here are 8 gems.
1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.
Why does Argentina wear a pale blue and white football kit?
It's a story that involves the Byzantine Empire, Renaissance painters, Napoleon, and a revolution...