Things I learned in 2021
Jan 1, 2022
- There was a global deep freeze in 1709 that scientists have been unable to find a reason. https://principia-scientific.com/winter-is-coming-europes-deep-freeze-of-1709/#:~:text=%20Winter%20Is%20Coming%3A%20Europe%E2%80%99s%20Deep%20Freeze%20of,the%20first%20of%20a%20series%20of...%20More%20
- Drones have ended up costing as much as piloted aircraft for the US military. https://www.csis.org/analysis/rethinking-role-remotely-crewed-systems-future-force
- Creativity has been decreasing in American children and adults since the early 1990s and an update suggests it is getting worse. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02783193.2020.1840464
- The solar cel was invented decades before Bell patented it. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fkrisdedecker%2Flowtechmagazineenglish+%28Low-tech+Magazine%29
- 90% of people who live in the UAE are foreigners.
