.@Outkast #HeyYa in the weather! #outkast #andre3000 @BigBoi pic.twitter.com/JIFbpRyJua

— Adam Krueger 💯 (@AdamKrueger) June 6, 2023

Adam Krueger is a television meteorologist in Houston, Texas. The common joke in Houston is "If you don't like the weather, just wait a moment." The weather is always volatile, except for the constant heat. Krueger thus has a lot to say while reporting from CW 39 News.

He has a lof fun on the job and his novel presenting style encourages many Houstonians to pay attention to his reports. Krueger finds ways to work song lyrics into his broadcasts. Embedded above is, for example, is "Hey Ya!" by Outkast.

On his Instagram page, you can find similar reports with "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, and "Bust a Move" by Young MC.

Theodore Roosevelt never knew what to do with his daughter Alice. On February 14, 1884, Roosevelt's mother died just hours before his beloved wife Alice died. He could not face raising the daughter she had borne two days earlier, nor could he bring himself to speak her name, which was the same as her mother's. Baby Alice was sent to live with her aunt, and only became part of the family when Teddy remarried and then had five more children. But Alice was always the odd one out, never getting along with her stepmother and always rebelling.

As a teenager in the White House after Roosevelt became president, Alice continued her contrary ways, by interrupting presidential meetings, drinking, driving around with boys, and smoking on the roof. She became a media star when her debutante ball was held at the White House, and the papers began following her every move. She was called everything from a guttersnipe to a princess, but she refused to conform to expectations. President Roosevelt thought he had the problem of Alice figured out when he began sending her overseas as an informal diplomat, but instead of keeping her out of the national headlines, her foreign antics continued to draw the press. Read the story of the First Daughter who refused to play the part at Messy Nessy Chic.    

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Any time I've admitted that I like the smell of gasoline, the reaction from people around me makes me less likely to ever admit it again. I don't seek it out, and I certainly don't sniff it, because that just always seemed dangerous. But I think I agree with the reasons SciShow gives for my long time enjoyment of that smell. And those other folks? Well, gasoline doesn't smell the same to everyone. If it smelled like fish to me, I would probably feel differently. This video is a mere 2:45 long; the rest is an ad.

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"It belongs in a museum!" But does it, really? That's one of the questions modern archaeologists confront when they study ancient artifacts. The world's most famous fictional archaeologist, Indiana Jones, has his newest and confirmed last movie in theaters, which brings up the question again- how accurate are these moves to archaeology? Each of the Indiana Jones films has led real archaeologists to decry the simplification of their painstaking research and the depiction of magical powers in ancient artifacts, but Bulgarian archaeologist Petar Parvanov writes about the facets of archaeology that the Indiana Jones films get right.

First, the movies point out in a spectacular way how destructive archaeology can be. They also highlight how cultural artifacts have been used for political purposes. And there's the question of what really belongs in a museum, and who gets to decide who those cultural or even sacred artifacts really belong to. Parvanov has examples from the movies and from real life archaeology that illustrate each of these ethical questions about studying mankind's history. -via Smithsonian

Apparently, he saves up more through this method!

Bill, a graduate student from the University of California, has shared his story on a viral Reddit post claiming he survived living in Los Angeles and commuting to Berkeley University in California. "I knew I would go back to LA after graduation because I want to go back to my previous employer once I graduate," he said in a viral Reddit post titled ‘I survived living in LA and commuting to Cal by plane over the past academic year to save on rent, AMA.’

He noticed that the student housing near his university was worth $1,600 per month (without the utilities), and should he rent there, he would be required to stay for twelve months even though his program only lasts for ten. He believed he didn’t need to stay close, as his course didn’t require him to be on-site every day. 

He further explained that he purchased his tickets months in advance, and he can cancel flights the night before if his schedule changed because he has elite status with airlines Alaska and Southwest. “This is probably one of the craziest (things) I've done in my life," he said. "And I'm so glad I made it through, without missing ANY classes, that itself is a miracle."

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Archaeologists set out to a valley near Oberhalbstein, Switzerland, to uncover ancient Roman ruins. Their aim was to find some evidence left behind by the Roman military, a once powerful force in the world. However, instead of what these people wanted, they got something much older: a 3,000-year-old collection of buried treasure.

Around 80 artifacts were found in the treasure trove, and have been dated to be from 1200 B.C. to 1000 B.C., or the late Bronze Age. According to archaeologists from the Archaeological Service of Graubünden, these items were intentionally damaged to be unusable. They was then placed in a wooden box, wrapped in leather, and then buried in the valley. 

This practice, according to these experts, is called selective dumping. It is a method that involves destroying and dumping valuable metal items. The artifacts did include some metal objects, such as raw copper, sickles, axes, and jewelry pieces.

Read more about the discovery here!

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this is literally one of the dumbest places to keep undrinkable chemicals i’ve every seen in my life… pic.twitter.com/oXxtgACKsE

— Brennasaid (@brennasaid) July 4, 2023

Twitter user @Brennasaid offers this series of photos of a household cleaning product. It's Puracy, a new product that highlights its eco-friendly packaing. The use of an aluminum can is entirely intentional. The company hopes that customers will recycle the cans instead of just throwing away plastic bottles.

@Brennasaid notes some problems with this design. It looks almost exactly like a canned drink. The outside actually labels the product as "green tea + lime". I'll guess that's the scent, not the favor, and I'm most definitely not volunteering to test that hypothesis.

The paper label on top warns against drinking the product. But perhaps packaging should be designed so that such a warning is unnecessary.

-via Jeremy Barker

Lofoten, an archipelago of islands off the coast of Norway, is a beautiful place registered as a UNESCO Heritage Site. These islands may have been settled 11,000 years ago, and there is a great reason why. Despite being inside the Arctic Circle, Lofoten has average high temperatures in the 50s and 60s (Fahrenheit) in the summer (although it has seen the 80s), and average lows barely creeping below freezing in the winter. This temperature anomaly is attributed to its location in the Gulf Stream. The islands of Lofoten are therefore a preferred home for fish, birds, and land animals of the Arctic, not to mention plant life.

Yet being in the Arctic Circle still has the effect of months-long daylight in the summer, and months-long darkness in winter -except when the Northern Lights are shining. This lends itself to an internationally-known bicycle race in summer called the Insomnia Race that covers the entire archipelago and takes place during the midnight sun. Read about Lofoten and see lots of gorgeous pictures at Kuriositas.   

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The giant shark megalodon gave us a few scary movies and single-handedly kept Shark Week going for several years. But this huge predatory fish died out millions of years ago. What we know about them mainly comes from teeth, because they shed teeth throughout their lives, and those huge numbers of teeth were more likely to fossilize and remain with us than bones. But those teeth are enough to show us how big megalodons grew, what they ate, and where they went. When they disappeared 3.5 million years ago, it led to other species having the freedom to grow big as well. Various species may come and go, but the ocean always has its monsters. -via Damn Interesting

Hey, geography nerds! Can you name the roundest country in the world? People who have really studied world maps might be able to. People who haven't might be able to find it in the map above. Yes, it's Sierra Leone. Yes, there have been people who study and rank the earth's nations by the geometry of their borders. Australian geo-statistician David Barry ranked them by how rectangular each country is, using an algorithm he devised. Argentinian mathematician Gonzalo Ciruelo ranked the world's countries by how round they are. With two ranked lists from two different experts, you have to wonder if there's any overlap. Yes, there is.

Sierra Leone may be the roundest nation on Ciruelo's list, but it also came in as the 14th most rectangular nation in Barry's list. The strangest anomaly is Vatican City, which is the fourth roundest in the world but also the second most rectangular! Vatican City may have confounded the algorithms because of its tiny size, which gives it fewer pixels in the data set. On a map, it looks neither round nor rectangular. How to explain Sierra Leone? Well, once you consider all the weird shapes of the other countries in the world, there really aren't all that many that are anywhere near round or rectangular. Find out what countries rank high in roundness and in rectangularity, and how they were calculated, at Atlas Obscura.

Despite having a population of only 370,000 people, Iceland is known for its huge literary output. That nation has the highest per capita number of published writers, including those that specialize in crime fiction.

Hildur Knútsdóttir is one those accomplished writers, although she is more widely known for her contributions to children’s literature. On Twitter, she shares that murder appears to be more common in fiction than in fact. The entire country has only one forensic scientist -- Pétur Guðmann Guðmannsson.

This gentleman found himself vexed by numerous professional questions from Iceland’s crime writers. In an effort to manage his workload, he conducted a seminar for them. It sold out. So, he offered a second seminar, which also sold out.

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Ask a competitive cyclist why he* shaves his legs, and you could get all sorts of answers: it keeps sweat from sticking to you, it makes road rash less painful, it makes bandaging an injury easier. He might have tried to avoid explaining it was for aerodynamics, because what difference would a few legs hairs make? But that would have been before engineer Marc Cote started working for a high-end bicycle company, and talked them into building a wind tunnel specifically for cyclists. The aim was to produce more aerodynamic bicycles, but Cote's research went further. After all, 75% of the drag in a bicycle race is due to the cyclist himself.

When triathlete Jesse Thomas showed up at the lab with his hairy legs in 2014, Cote talked him into cycling in the wind tunnel, shaving his legs, and trying it again. He calculated that Thomas could save 70 seconds over a 40-mile time trial just by shaving! More hairy cyclists were recruited to confirm the results. Further research showed that Laurent Fignon would have won the 1989 Tour de France if he had only cut his ponytail. Now, shaving one's legs is expected among all competitive cyclists, along with other aerodynamic innovations that came from Cote's wind tunnel. Read how cyclists lost their hair at Nautilus.  -via Metafilter

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* Women cyclists aren't asked this question.

In 1962, British newspaper editor Brendon Grimshaw bought a tiny island in the Republic of Seychelles for £8,000. He moved onto the uninhabited Moyenne Island and went to work. For the next four decades, Grimshaw cleared the island of invasive species and planted thousands of native trees as well as other plants. He carefully maintained a couple of the island's historic sites, like a purported pirate's hideout and a gravesite, as well as the homes of previous owners. He also built a path around the entire island to those sites, which is barely more than a mile long. Grimshaw brought in and raised giant tortoises. Those years of work transformed Moyenne into a tropical paradise of birds, geckos, tortoises, palm trees, and more. The 24-acres island is now Moyenne Island National Park, the smallest national park in the world, but one that people go to great lengths to visit.

To preserve the island's nature, the number of visitors is strictly limited. But you can see its beauty in a post at Moss and Fog. -via Nag on the Lake

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Were you in Dayton, Ohio, recently and saw an early biplane pass overhead? Tom Scott stopped at the Wright “B” Flyer Hangar/Museum in Dayton to see where Orville and Wilbur Wright built planes to sell beginning in 1910. The first commercial airplane was the Wright Model B, of which there are only two surviving examples from that era. But they have been built recently, using the Wright Brothers' design and new and safer materials. This biplane has two propellers driven with a bicycle chain! It's somehow both illuminating and reassuring that the plane designed in 1910 is still a valid design, although anyone in it is exposed to the wild blue yonder, which is an incredible experience. Tom has come a long way from being scared to ride a roller coaster. No, they didn't let him fly the plane, but he got to ride in it. They don't even let pilots fly this plane, with one exception you might be able to guess.

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is a public museum created by the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its task is to educate the public about the history of medicine. It contains numerous artifacts from medical training programs, including this doll made in the 1930s. Her name is Michelle.

Dr. Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958) invented Michelle in the 1930s to teach doctors non-surgical methods of removing foreign objects trapped in children's throats. The trachea and esophagus are realistically child-sized.

This film shows Dr. Jackson using a probe to remove an object in Michelle's throat. This skill, as well as his ability to keep children calm during a panic-inducing procedure, made him a famous medical educator who directly or indirectly saved thousands of lives.

-via Museum of Curiosities