A man finds a wallet with $7000 in it. A few days later, he reads a notice stating tha...

A man finds a wallet with $7000 in it. A few days later, he reads a notice stating that a wealthy man has lost his wallet and is offering a $500 reward to anyone who returns it. He soon locate…

Top stories for Long   Lynda Clarke, lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (1968-present) • Posted Oct 7, 2022 A man finds a wallet with $7000 in it. A few days later, he reads a notice stating that a wealthy man has lost his wallet and is offering a $500 reward to anyone who returns it. He soon locates the o... Read more » 10.3K 364   Botanically, what determines if the limbs of a tree will merge with other limbs of the same tree, like the weeping willow does within itself? Kííezen, studied Life • Answered May 6 They fuse their branches in the process of inosculation. It happens when branches brush together and scrape off bark. Living tissues touch, cells develop together. Willows al... Read more » 236 5   Yellow (RGB 255-255-000) and blue (RGB 000-000-255) have the same brightness value (128 on a 255-point scale). On white backgrounds, why is yellow much harder to see than blue? Bill Otto, Top Writer Eyesight & Optometry at Quora • Answered November 4, 2024 Setting aside the "brightness value" - whatever that means in your question, and the fact that the eye is much less sensitive to blue than to green, we have to look at how ... Read more » 157 17   What is a computer "trick" that in the past was cool, but is impossible with computers today? Todd Main, 58 years as a human • Updated Mon In the early nineties, I was a research assistant at a university. There were several other students in the lab, and we all shared the same server. I think it was a Sun wor... Read more » 757 45   "Euler calculated without apparent effort, just as men breathe and eagles stay in the air." Alessandro13 • Posted Nov 22, 2024 So said François Arago referring to Leonhard Euler (Italianized as Euler), the most important mathematician of the eighteenth century and one of the most prolific, so much so that he earned the nic... Read more » 107 6   Can nuclear fusion be initiated mechanically? Like between two pistons being slammed together with a fusible mix between them? Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered February 11, 2019 Maybe. Some folks are working on doing exactly that. There's a company called General Fusion that's trying to build fusion reactors that use mechanical ramrods to ignite a f... Read more » 872 71   Why isn't the water frozen in the North Pole if it is as cold as they say it is there? Steven Haddock, lives in Toronto, ON (1959-present) • Answered May 1 Water has the unique property of being less dense when it's solid than when it's liquid. As such, in both oceans and deep lakes, ice forms on the top of the water. The ice c... Read more » 66 2   As of today's male actors, who is the best horse rider? David Reames • Updated May 23 Would you believe probably Sylvester Stallone?! He is one serious equestrian…His father Frank served in the US Army Calvary. He was around horses his entire life and is a b... Read more » 7   Michael Hutton, MA National Security Studies, Georgetown University (1987) • Updated Jan 5, 2024 Walmart is the "superstar" of wage theft. It has paid $1.4 billion in total wage theft settlements and fines (emphasis on fines). No Executive charged; no executive punished. I'll bet these folks e... Read more » When breaking the law is only a fine, the law only applies to the poor. When the companies would happily rather pay a shitty little fine for stomping out unions instead of allowing unionization you ... 352 11   Donald Trump is so powerful right now that he can dismantle any US institution. Democrats are powerless as they are afraid of being criminally charged. Is Trump unstoppable right now? Johan Torres, studied Politics of the United States of America • Answered February 22 There is a hole at the center of all US institutions. There is the hole that is designed so the rich and powerful never suffer consequences or accountability. There is the ... Read more » 282 45   Why don't more ranchers in the southwest start raising ostriches? You can raise them like chickens, meat like beef, and you can sell the skins, feathers, and meat in big demand worldwide. David Reyes, lives in Texas (2006-present) • Answered May 2 ADDING AN UPDATE AT THE END. Texan here. Where I live, decades ago there was an ostrich ranch. It was a local tourist attraction, with people stopping by to look at the ostri... Read more » 625 74   Which animals can tell they are aging? Sean Kernan • Answered June 9, 2020 Several studies have been done on Dolphins, on how they recognize themselves in mirrors. They've found that dolphins not only can recognize themselves in mirrors but can als... Read more » 8.4K 65 Read more in your feed

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