“Cool Stuff”

Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.

Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.

There’s a quick way to spot before reading the text that this isn’t a program that would be run by any level of Canadian government.

h/t DS

Horror films use inaudible ‘infrasound’ effects to induce goosebumps and nausea. But can the so-called ‘fear frequency’ make you see ghosts?

In the early 1980s, Vic Tandy was one of a team designing medical equipment in a laboratory at Coventry University. Everybody said that the lab was haunted; it just felt weird in there. That evening, when Tandy was on his own, he felt something very strange.

“I was sweating but cold, and the feeling of depression was noticeable – but there was also something else,” he told the Birmingham Post at the time. Suddenly, he felt like he was being watched. “It was as though something was in the room with me.”

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h/t Dana Garcia

These guys are having too much fun.

Please forgive me for posting an ‘America’s Got Talent’ video, but this is incredible.

What would you dip ? pic.twitter.com/CHLAlqSKRD

— CCTV_IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) October 5, 2021