Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd
Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd This is my personal site where I write about whatever I like. Either a deep dive into something Iโm...
Hello World, Welcome to Mostly Odd This is my personal site where I write about whatever I like. Either a deep dive into something Iโm...
The highest mountain we know of has yet to be visited, itโs on Mars. We call it Olympus Mons. At 27km from its base to...
August 1878, United States of America; a Union Pacific train was screaming through large, and largely empty, rural Wyoming. The day was warm and the...
Nuclear means much more than atomic power. Since World War II it has inspired thoughts of Utopia and destruction, but most of all in trying...
No planes or soldiers were remotely near the islands of Vanuatu, yet airstrips were appearing like scars through the pristine landscapes. World War II had...
Pythagoras, mathematician and philosopher, returned from Egypt and Babylon a changed man. At the Greek colony of Croton, he set down roots and brought thinkers...
Something, to deliberately show nothing โ that is the odd irony at the heart of zero โ it is almost unbelievably useful. It makes algebra,...
5km across, the fireball erupted from the island of Elugelab and engulfed the sky. The shock wave vaporised everything within 5km, and scraped the neighbouring...
In 1851 the prominent American physician Samuel Adolphus Cartwright observed black slaves that fled captivity, and saw an illness. โDrapetomania, or the disease causing Negroes...
Deserted in the desert Two dusty tracks cross in the sun-blasted Mojave Desert; there, perched on the edge of nowhere are concrete blocks where a...