Check your web history for “wikipedia”, what are the most recent 5-10 Wikipedia pages you have read?
Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
I was looking up whether it is fat- or water soluble, because the former can be dangerous to your liver if you are taking supplements like I do. This was the only vitamin with far over 100% the recommended amount in said supplement.
My wife sent me Andrees Arctic Balloon Expedition. From there, the rabbit hole into Svalbard was self-inflicted.
- Muslin
- Anna Delviy
- Nancy Pelosi
- Aileen Wuornus
- Lindsey Graham
I have in my Obsidian Daily Note a “Today’s random data” and this has brings me the last five days:
Now I kind of want to have a daily Lemmy thread where we read and discuss a random Wikipedia article as a community.
It would be really great!
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion's_mane_jellyfish
In case you were wondering:
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity and does not consider an eruption imminent.
Interestingly, the buildup of magma causes the plateau to be uplifted by about 1 in. per year on average, which is one of the ways we monitor it. NASA studied how we could go about preventing an imminent eruption by cooling the magma, but another scientist said we could accidentally trigger it by trying. We may have to wait for something else for our next extinction event though. Yellowstone going off again soon would be a bit ahead of schedule.
Most of the other articles were just fleetingly topical to a conversation or book or something. Cymothoa exigua is interesting though. It’s a fish parasite that severs the tongue of its host and effectively replaces it. I think I looked at it from another thread where people were posting their favorite deep sea animals.
The fact that oxygen may have shot up to modern levels really early on for a bit fascinates me in particular.
This thing for a DIY air filter because I saw it here yesterday or two days ago
Looks interesting, might have to try it.
I’m curious how 1840 came up.
My wife linked it to me and was like “Look at how big the turnout was! Highest turnout in U.S. history!” (at 80.3%)
Wow, that’s amazing. I’m guessing the then very-limited suffrage had to do with it. It would have been just white landowning males at the time, right?
it’s a number progression, 1839 came before it
Fluid construction grammar
Unscented transform
Heteroglossia
Lorenz system
Relict (biology)
YuezhiAre you a palaeoclimatologist who is struggling to convince someone of something?
What’s that app
Looks like the Wikipedia app
Just the Wikipedia app from the android app store
- Herbert Hoover
- List of Extinct Dog Breed
- United States Senate Elections 2026 in [State]
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Gengar
ADX Florence, thanks to an earlier post about TSA ruling back their mandate that people take off their shoes at airport security control. Now I have nightmares.
Wait, how do you go from TSA policy on shoes to a supermax prison in Colorado?
Shoe bomber is the answer
If you were able to see what IP addresses had visited a Wikipedia page, would you be able to take the lists here, assume a reasonable time period going back, and identify uniquely which addresses had visited all 5 (or more) pages listed by each commenter?
Lucky you can’t, I guess?
