This is a good video on that medieval belief:

Medieval Science was Baffled by Birds - CuriousCabinet123

https://youtu.be/vgFj-MMTqIc

I think that's the point - they have been removed.

Imagine finding this in the US...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

Sounds like a good name for renaming the President Donald J. Trump Boulevard leading up to Mar-A-Lago when the current bout of totalitarianism over there ends.

> In "The Miller's Tale", Geoffrey Chaucer writes "And prively he caughte hire by the queynte" (and intimately he caught her by her crotch),[14] and the comedy Philotus (1603) mentions "put doun thy hand and graip hir cunt."

It turns out “grab her by the pussy” has surpringly robust precedent.

Indeed.

In my field we often refer to palaeontology as "just stamp collecting".

I've heard this general insult given as stamp collecting as well, butterfly catching was new to me.

I do not trust that graph in your example

Looks like this is the reference, for anyone else wondering.

https://viewing.nyc/new-yorker-cover-from-1976-accurately-po...

I often think this at first when I see such numbers, but then remember that condensing boilers have efficiencies over 100% so then I'm not sure.

It's just a trick. The methodology used to arrive at >100% numbers doesn't actually consider all of the caloric energy in the fuel. The difference between higher and lower heating value of methane is about 10% and condensing boilers are usually marketed as 107% efficient.

The gist of it is that the fuel might contain 1 kWh of chemical energy but 0.1 kWh was traditionally lost to water vaporization during combustion, so they start with a denominator of 0.9kWh and since condensing boilers capture this "lost" energy through condensation it leaves you with >100% efficiency, on a technicality. No laws of physics are being violated.

Just need to pump energy from anti-matter, simple!

As it's currently March, April seems very close to me. I didn't know there was a moon flight planned so this is a great headline to me.

It links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.

Presumably that's why the subheading is:

>First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.