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@im0mole The older the performers, the more likely it is that they are the original artists...

@chickenoncheese I'll bet you a bottle of White Lightning this is from "Hee Haw", one of the most underrated and under-appreciated of TV variety shows.

In five and a half years, villagers in remote places like North Dakota will be cut off from the rest of the world when a thunderstorm interferes with all their wireless/satellite data transfer.

People in large cities will be helpless during a power outage, since all the cellular repeater antenna...

What really makes it stand out is how the titles follow him through the doors....

@Erikur17 So, Strontium was discovered by digging in someone's nose?

114 should be Daltonium (symbol: Dl) after John Dalton, who proposed the first modern atomic theory. He said that while all matter was made up of atoms, each element had its own *kind* of atoms

116 should be Berzelium (Bz) after Jöns Jacob Berzelius. In addition to identifying four new elements ...

@hikarushikari This element should be named Daltonium (symbol Dl) after John Dalton (1766-1844), the chemist who came up with the first comprehensive atomic theory, which included separate symbols for atoms of each element. Then Element 114 can be named Berzelium (symbol Bz) after Jöns Jacob Berz...

The element is named for Strontian, a village in Scotland. The village itself takes its name from “Sròn an t-Sìthein”, which is Scots-Gaelic for “nose (or point) of the faerie hill”. Strontium was first isolated from mineral specimens taken from a mine in the area. Given the date of the element’s...

WFMU is the only station in the world that would even conceive of doing something this goofy!