Welcome to Shareable Curiosities, April 2018 edition. Some pretty cool things passed through my radar this month. Click below the cut to read all about them.
April Fool’s! While I didn’t keep track of which websites had the best or worst pranks for it’s users, I did come across this gem from anime streaming service Crunchyroll: an announcement for a romance light novel featuring everyone’s favorite blue bomber, titled MegaMan: Date My Robot Master. As a fan of MegaMan, I am slightly upset this isn’t even a real thing.
NPR’s blog Goats and Soda usually blogs about healthcare developments around the world but, given that they have goats in their name, they felt justified in covering this sweet story about two goats who went on an adventure and got themselves stuck on the underside of a bridge. Spoiler alert, they were rescued, but you’ll have to read how for yourself.
Do you like dogs? Do you like museums? Then you’ll like this museum that opened in Germany that’s all about the German national dog, Dashunds. Travel + Leisure covered the story, and it looks so cute, guys. Next time your in Germany, please go and tell me how it is!
Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears or extremophiles, are Earth’s eighth world wonder because of their survival capabilities. They can survive the vacuum of space. One was frozen and brought back to life thirty years later. How are they capable of living through such extreme conditions? According to this article at i09, it’s all about their DNA.
THIS MONTH IN ROBOTS sees a profile in the Star Tribune about a robotics league in Greenbush Middle River, Minn. They come from a small town in the middle of nowhere, but they are national champions.
THIS MONTH IN SPACE saw two unique news stories. One is about the launch of exoplanets searcher TESS, but I’d like to redirect your attention to planet Earth, where scientists found diamonds that were made in our systems protoplanets, which existed before the formation of our current Earth. Does it blow your mind that there were planets before Earth? It did mine. Read this article from Smithsonian to learn more!
We end this session with a fun video featuring a marble music machine by Wintergatan. According to Google, Wintergatan is a Swedish folktronica band, and that’s about all I know about them. But the words “Swedish folktronica” and the below video make me want to check them out further.
See you next month!
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