Each month, find our very serious selection of funny, comical, exhilarating, or simply crazy sciences!
1. 1 in 100 billion chance
Ruth Hamilton, a resident of Golden in Canada, was recently woken up by a meteorite which passed through her roof to land on her pillow … It is not known where her head was resting, but in any case, she is fine. Researchers have taken the celestial object to study it, and will return it to him shortly. Not bad, the memory.
2. Fur trader
Like many amateur investors, Mr. Goxx got into crypto to make his fortune. Except that Mr. Goxx… is a hamster! His master had fun creating a connected cage: by running in his wheel, the rodent chooses a cryptocurrency, which he then buys or sells according to the tunnels he uses. Total pif, which seems to work since its capital has climbed 20% in 4 months: much better than many professional markets.
3 floppy my love
The administration of Japan, a country on the initiative of incredible technological advances, is still… at floppy disks. Believing that they help secure data, officials have been fighting for years to save them. Sadly, the government has finally announced a total digitization of the administration by 2026. The end of an era.
4.It’s good to plan …
Chile has just passed a law aimed at protecting the brains of its citizens.
It is now forbidden to use neurotechnologies to alter someone’s mental integrity without their consent. It sounds crazy! And yet …
5. 99,9%
This is the percentage of scientific articles published between 2012 and 2020 which agree that humans do have an influence on climate change. At this point, it’s not even a consensus anymore …
Skeptical nostalgia?
6. One, two, three, four …
How is climate change affecting walruses? To find out, the WWF and the British Antarctic Survey need to identify them in the Arctic. And are looking for volunteers for this task! You don’t even need a down jacket, it would be teleworking: just count the little brown dots on satellite images. And that walrus!
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