Some great advice (despite the tediously snarky intro) from @seriouseats for anyone trying to work out how to get the perfect roast potatoes using American varieties - seriouseats.com/the-best-roa…
Ugh, of all the stories, this is the one making me homesick and sad I won’t be in the UK this Christmas.
The T. rex at London’s Natural History Museum is a ferocious-looking beast. It’s now wearing a cozy Christmas sweater.
“There is nothing more funny than a jumper fitted for a dinosaur that has the tiniest arms in the world,” one employee said.
nyti.ms/3pFEIJM
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Unrolling is the new unboxing
This time-lapse shows the second iROSA, or roll-out solar array, unrolling after installation by @astro_kimbrough and @Thom_astro during their spacewalk. The actual unraveling took just 10 minutes and concluded at 1:55 EDT.
👨🚀👨🚀 Details: go.nasa.gov/3h1gtS6
It’s a bit of a niche thing to love, but scientists cheering when their ridiculously difficult missions succeed was always one of my favourite bits of covering space. Go science! – at New York, USA
"Wow!"
The @NASAJPL team is all cheers as they receive video data from the @NASAPersevere rover of the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter flight:
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Apple's flexible screen patent hints at far more than just folding iPhones - my latest for @ForbesTech forbes.com/sites/markprigg/2…
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I could never write about this without thinking of Ken Dodd (one for the 'veteran' British crowd)
Didymoon is now Dimorphos.
The target of our first asteroid redirection practice mission now has an official name.
Personally would have gone for "Puny Space Rock" or "Earth Sends Its Regards", but Dimorphos is cool too I guess.
iau.org/news/pressreleases/d…
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How @Apple created the Welsh flag emoji (and a great bit of history on the flag)
In 2016, @jeremyburge and I sent a proposal to @unicode to include the 🏴🏴🏴 flags on emoji keyboards 👉
blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-fl…
It was a success 👉
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-4003…
But before it landed, Apple, Google etc had to consider the design.
Especially the dragon…
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Zoom doing a great job of leaving people utterly confused about every aspect of its security theverge.com/2020/6/17/21294…
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This - TikTok vs Hollywood billions and overcomplicated engineering (I really don't want to have to turn my phone to 'see another perspective') was only going to end one way.
Something that jumps out re how people talk about Quibi: it's bizarre to attribute their problem to timing, coronavirus, technology, marketing etc. The fact that not a single one of their *billion dollars* worth of shows have caught on in even a minor way is the entire story
