We've opened a new corner of Idle & Awake: Idle & Awake Blog, at blog.idleawake.com.
It answers the everyday questions people type into a search box. Each answer starts with a short "Quick answer", then shows the numbers, the sources and the date it was checked. It has seven sections: Business, Tech, Science, Travel, Food, History and Work. Up to three new answers go out each day.
Two to start with:
☁️ A cloud can weigh 1.1 million pounds. Here's why it floats
https://blog.idleawake.com/science/how-clouds-stay-up-cloud-weight/
🕐 Why the US–Europe time gap shrinks by an hour every fall
https://blog.idleawake.com/travel/us-europe-time-difference-fall-gap-week/
There are also three new tools on the sister sites:
💳 Credit card payoff calculator (Tools): see how long a balance takes to clear, what you'd need to pay to be done by a target month, and what paying only the minimum really costs.
https://tools.idleawake.com/credit-card-payoff-calculator/
🌅 Sunrise & sunset (Time): sunrise, sunset, day length, golden hour and blue hour for 150 cities on any date.
https://time.idleawake.com/sunrise-sunset/
🕰️ Daylight saving: next clock change (Time): when the clocks change next in any city, plus a sorted list for the whole world. Useful this month, because Sydney changes on Oct 4, Europe on Oct 25 and most of the US on Nov 1.
https://time.idleawake.com/daylight-saving/
Everything stays free, with no sign-ups. If any of it saved you a search, a coffee keeps the next answer coming. Thank you for keeping us Awake. ☕
— Idle & Awake team