Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years

This is part of an even-larger "restructuring" at NASA.

Space

📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺💁*Putting Aluminum Foil Under Your WiFi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend It👉

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Putting Aluminum Foil Under Your WiFi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend It
https://indiandefencereview.com/aluminum-foil-wifi-router-signal-boost-hack/

Putting Aluminum Foil Under Your WiFi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend It

A viral aluminum foil trick claims to boost weak WiFi in minutes, but the real reason it works comes with one hidden catch most people miss.

Indian Defence Review
Scientists Think They Just Accidentally Proved String Theory

A new study just added an interesting twist to the complicated history of the physics theory.

Popular Mechanics
Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men’s and women’s clothes?

Centuries-old habits shaped today’s fashion standards.

The Conversation
Rare species found in Scotland's declining rainforest

A citizen science project is aiming to document species on the Cowal Peninsula for the first time in 50 years.

The 19th-Century Iron Balls Still Cleaning the Paris Sewers

When the sewers of Paris get clogged with putrid waste, they're sometimes cleaned the same way they were over a century ago: with a giant, rolling ball.

Atlas Obscura
The early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in North America usually did not wear all black, and their capotains (hats) were shorter and rounder than the widely depicted tall hat with a buckle on it. Instead, their fashion was based on that of the late Elizabethan era. The traditional image was formed in the 19th century when buckles were a kind of emblem of quaintness. (The Puritans, who also settled in Massachusetts near the same time, did frequently wear all black.) #interesting
There is no evidence that Viking warriors wore horns on their helmets; this would have been impractical in battle. #interesting

There's a minimum size that space could've been "compressed into" at the start of the hot Big Bang. Not a singularity, not soccer ball sized, but human hamster-ball sized

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/space-infinitely-small-hot-big-bang/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

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The forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is never identified as an apple, as widely depicted in Western art. The original Hebrew texts mention only fruit. #interesting