Started What If? by Randall Munroe.

It’s by the guy who runs / draws xkcd.com web comics, and gives serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. For example: Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?

Questions are weird like that, but the science is real, so an interesting read. Specially if you are a fan of xkcd.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    I have now started my journey of curating an RSS feed. Any suggestions? I have a few basic ones like XKCD, picture of the day, a photo throwback from my reader (feeeed) and a bunch of YouTube channels and a few subreddits that I never really stopped visiting.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Depends on what you want. I have a few authors like Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie etc. Some comics like XKCD, Sword Comics etc. Some work / programming related ones, news / blogs of lots of applications / software I use, some other hobbies related ones like gaming etc.

      I’ll recommend starting from a few and then slowly growing it. I used to have tons of feeds, and would have 100+ new items every day, some time even more than 2 or 300, which became unmanageable, so have removed lots of stuff I didn’t care about too much. You can of course just add everything you want, and then slowly remove stuff that you think isn’t too important.