A pair of maps that showed the locations in California where early Hollywood movies could simulate different parts of the world.

I made a video on my YT channel this week about google alternatives, and found a site called Marginalia Search, based in Sweden, that focuses on non-commercial content. That choice in this digital ecosystem means you get a lot of weird, old, and interesting stuff when you use it.

Here's the video if anyone's interested in Google alternatives, but feel free to ignore it. There are chapters for the TLDW crowd too.

Edit:
Just realized the correct name for the tree is actually maple.

False friend caused mistake because its name is "Ahorn" in German.
Keeping the heading as it is, because it is funny, although it might trigger the Canadians (sorry, dudes!).

For anyone that doesn’t know it.. this is the video: https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0

Opa Gangnam Style!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45608704

The White House Situation Room is a conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House.

Author: The White House

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45572977

Do we run differently in space than we do on Earth? The answer may surprise you. NASA Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs talks with John DeWitt, principal investigator for the Treadmill Kinematics experiment aboard the International Space Station. Treadmill Kinematics is the first rigorous investigation to quantify the biomechanics of treadmill exercise conditions during long duration space flight on the station.

Author: NASA

This is a followup of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48867881

Photo description: The acorn is missing now in the hole the animal made in the remnants of the Edelweiss that died last year in the flower pot with red houseleek and some grass coming out. The grass has flowers now and the housleek grew bigger, as the winter is over.

This is an organic situation like, im just posting. Let's talk Disasters