The amounts of horizontal scrolling will highlight how vast space actually is.

I like the button, in the lower-right corner, that scrolls through the solar system at the speed of light : I reached Pluto faster than that !!!

Every winner begins as a loser, but not every failure leads to success. And what ultimately separates the winners from the losers, certainly is not persistence.
Trying again and again only works if you learn from your previous failures. The idea is to work smart, not hard. You have to figure out what worked and what didn’t, and then focus on what needs to be improved instead of thrashing around and changing everything.
The people who failed didn’t necessarily work less [than those who succeeded]. They could actually have worked more; it’s just that they made more unnecessary changes.

One such key indicator [statistical signatures that separate successful groups from nonsuccessful groups and make it possible to predict ultimate outcomes] (besides keeping the stuff that works and focusing on what doesn’t) is the time between consecutive failed attempts, which should decrease steadily. In other words, the faster you fail, the better your chances of success, and the more time between attempts, the more likely you are to fail again.

What matters is how people fail, how they respond to failure and where those failures lead.

Quelques précisions utiles sur ce qu'est l' "intelligence" et ce que font réellement les gros ordinateurs qui jouent aux échecs ou regardent des photos de chats.

TIL about chlorine trifluoride, a substance which can burn virtually everything (e.g. sand, ash, asbestos) while letting off clouds of highly-corrosive superheated acid. Also, the acid is poisonous.

see also :
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride
- https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
- demonstration : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l56AfUTnQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAhiqGZCwNQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc

Our solar system collectively hosts nearly 200 known moons, some of which are vibrant worlds in their own right. Take a tour of the major moons in our celestial menagerie, including those that are among the most mystifying—or scientifically intriguing—places in our local neighborhood.

This page is beautiful with animations and the like, but not very convenient to read (have to love scrolling a lot...)

the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.

clarification found in the footnote : "ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage."

estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities.

authors emphasize that other products of coal power, like emissions of acid rain–producing sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrous oxide, pose greater health risks than radiation.

Encore une fois : plus de marketing que de science dans ce qui se dit autour des "maltos". Quelques précisions bien utiles dans cet article.

Uranus was initially named "Georges" (after King George III, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom) when discovered in 1781.

“The key take-home message from this study is that ad libitum weekend recovery or catch-up sleep does not appear to be an effective countermeasure strategy to reverse sleep-loss-induced disruptions of metabolism,”