There is a step in champagne production where the bottles are stored upside down for a month or two and turned regularly. This is to bring all the sediments to the top of the bottle so it can be removed in the next step called disgorgement.
When the metric system was defined and adopted during the French revolution they changed the calendar as well.
Months were changed to be 30 days each with an extra 5-6 days at the end of the year, weeks were 10 days long, days were 10 hours of 100 minutes, each minute lasted 100 seconds.
Unfortunately it did not stick and the decimal time system was reverted.
Economist think that before the use of money barter was the main tool for economical exchange.
In reality, barter is close to inexistent in tribal society, early society relies on the gift economy rather than barter.
Rather than trading apples for spears, a person would distribute the extra apples they got to their neighbor, then of they need a spear they ask their neighbor of they can borrow their spear or if they could make one for him.
I'm not sure of our was in the video or not but there is also a social expectation of reciprocity, so once a person give something to their neighbor, the neighbor then feel a responsibility to give something back. It works between tribes as well.
(Talking about that, my neighbor has been giving me tomatoes all summer, I should make a cake for them)
that means a screaming combustion engine, not a whirring electric motor.
Buyers of luxury car want to make noise, literally and figuratively.
The problem is that an electric engine is too quiet, it's not disturbing anyone. On the other hand a loud combustion engine is impacting people's life, positively by enjoying the look of the car (rarely) or negatively by intruding into their audible space.
People with the money to buy luxury car wants that, they are buying a status and the power to intrude into people's life.
I agree, all software developed or used by governments should be open-source.
There might be few cases where there is a legitimate reason for it not to be open source (no open source software available, need a proprietary software for running old legacy equipment ...). In this case the decision should be voted on and the arguments exposed publicly.
Because "pro-life" is not describing their position. They are not even "pro-fetus-life". They are not taking any action to avoid accidental miscarriage in women, no educative program in this sense or collective action like distributing prenatal vitamins.
No, the only way to describe their position is "anti-abortion". They are not pro anything, they are anti.
I don't know for other people but in my area the delivery person almost always calls me before dropping the package to check if I'm home and ready to receive the package.
Interestingly, an area I found where the spelling of words can evolve extremely rapidly is geography.
I'm mapping on openstreetmap and finding the right spelling for small dwellings and locations can be an impossible task.
Unless there is a clear physical signage for it somewhere the name of a single place can change drastically in a few decades. From one generation to another the name changes and finding "the right" spelling is sometimes an impossible task.
I have a lot of cases where the cadastral map, the postal database and the mapping institute each have a different spelling/name for the same location.
Similarly in France the "Gendarmerie nationale", a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using "GendBuntu" on all their desktop since 2008.
It's a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.
When burying a dead animal, especially a big one like a house, you can contaminate the ground water and the pathogens stay in the soil for a very long time.
40% of the world's population lives in coastal area. Tsunamis are devastating as well so I'm not certain that a giant asteroid falling in the water would be less deadly.
To give an idea of how absurd Tesla stock is, Tesla valuation is higher than the next 35 automakers COMBINED!
Thisn article is from last year: https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-worth-more-35-next-biggest-automakers-combined-2006586