“Welcome to Svalbard, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited places, where brewing beer was illegal for nearly a century. That all changed in 2015 when local pioneer Robert Johansson led the charge to change the law, and Svalbard Brewery was born.
Today, this trailblazing Arctic brewery makes high-quality beer in one of the planet’s most remote and extreme environments, using 2,000-year-old glacier water – one of the purest sources on Earth!”
“Of every single film based in archaeology, paleoanthropology, anthropology I have ever seen in my life, Dora the Explorer, did the best job of representing the science.” – Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi
Patrick Foote of Name Explain looks into why a relatively small area like the United Kingdom has so many accents. Interestingly enough, the number of different accents is so large that the total count isn’t actually known.
If you had all the money in the world, what would you be able to do with it?
[xkcd’s What If? via The Awesomer]
After immersing himself in TikTok videos, polyglot Xiaomanyc dressed up as a nerdy professor to address the students of Westtown High School in their native Gen Alpha language.
“I was invited by Westtown School to give a speech—as a language expert—about the importance of learning languages, in front of a full auditorium of high school and middle school students. But instead of just telling the students why language matters…I decided to show them.
So I spent weeks secretly mastering Gen Alpha slang and then delivered the entire speech in their own linguistic native tongue, as a lighthearted prank but also to genuinely emphasize the importance of learning languages.”
The Daily Mail explains the overwhelming victory of Operation Desert Storm.
“When Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi army to invade Kuwait in 1990, America vowed to lead a global coalition to push him back. What followed was one of the most comprehensive victories in military history, where age-old tactics and modern technology combined to crush Saddam’s army in just 100 hours of combat. In doing so, America established itself as the world’s lone superpower and helped define how modern wars would be fought.”
The Wall Street Journal looks into the gigantic assholes ruining live music.
Pub Choir is a pretty neat Australian music project where people go and learn to sing popular songs in three-part harmony as part of a large crowd. At every Pub Choir show over the last 2.5 years, each audience sang one line from Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a group until the whole song was complete.
The final product, featuring 102,974 singers, has finally been released.