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TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know The statue of Athena Parthenos was a large-scale ivory and gold statue created in the 5th century...
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The statue of Athena Parthenos was a large-scale ivory and gold statue created in the 5th century BCE and dedicated to the goddess in the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis. The larger-than-life devotional image of one of ancient Greece’s most important goddesses was considered...
TheCollector
How to Become an Immortal in Greek Mythology (6 Myths) Greek mythology focused on the deeds of gods and semi-divine heroes, with most of the humans who got...
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Greek mythology focused on the deeds of gods and semi-divine heroes, with most of the humans who got caught up in their escapades coming to a bad end. But some mortals made such an impression during their short lives that they were given a place in the heavens and made immortal....
diamond geezer
Banksy's endangered animals On 5th August 2024 London woke to the news that Banksy had painted a goat on a wall in Kew. Over the...
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On 5th August 2024 London woke to the news that Banksy had painted a goat on a wall in Kew. Over the next eight days an entire menagerie emerged across the capital, and it filled the August silly season gap brilliantly. [original bloggage] Two of the animals vanished almost...
The American Scholar
{…} by Fady Joudah Poems read aloud, beautifully The post {…} by Fady Joudah appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.05 - Woah! You Have A Time Machine? New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Arduino Blog
This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
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In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
TokyoDev
Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services...
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With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa for another three years. I’m thrilled by this result, because my family and I recently moved to a small town in Kansai and have been enjoying our lives in Japan more than...
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Mineral Hurricane I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton,...
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24. The screening I attended was held inside a Cedars-Sinai medical imaging center in west Los Angeles; seeing this particular...
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Mineral Hurricane I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton,...
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I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24. The screening I attended was held inside a Cedars-Sinai medical imaging center in west Los Angeles; seeing this particular...
Tony Finch's blog
p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
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Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
TheCollector
Unpacking Freud’s Concept of “The Uncanny” Although Sigmund Freud is known as the progenitor of psychoanalysis, The Uncanny, one of his most...
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Although Sigmund Freud is known as the progenitor of psychoanalysis, The Uncanny, one of his most famous essays, is just as important in the world of literary criticism as in that of psychology. It also had a seismic impact across the arts. Throughout, Freud probes the possible...
The Marginalian
Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the...
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Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent and could not bear. To cope with the aching helplessness, I developed a private...
TheCollector
How Sigmund Freud’s Concept of “The Uncanny” Inspired Art According to Freud, the uncanny is not just an unsettling or fearful sensation caused by the alien...
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According to Freud, the uncanny is not just an unsettling or fearful sensation caused by the alien and unfamiliar. Spooky things, like living dolls, severed limbs, and doppelgängers, can be uncanny. This is because of their link to our subconscious, to repressed feelings of...
Retail Design Blog
MUFG Workplace: A Workplace Rooted in Nature and Culture Amidst rapid growth, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) envisioned a Bengaluru workplace that...
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Amidst rapid growth, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) envisioned a Bengaluru workplace that echoed its global ethos and commitment to...
Yale E360
Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term....
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Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the largest fish has caused genetic changes that favor slower growth and smaller...
Yale E360
Shrinking Cod: How Humans Are Impacting the Evolution of Species Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term....
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Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the largest fish has caused genetic changes that favor slower growth and smaller...
TheCollector
How Saladin Defeated the Crusaders & Recaptured Jerusalem Saladin (1137-1193) has gone down in history as one of the greatest statesmen and generals of the...
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Saladin (1137-1193) has gone down in history as one of the greatest statesmen and generals of the High Medieval Era. He made himself Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founded the Ayyubid Dynasty, defended his kingdom from the Crusader states, and recaptured the sacred city of Jerusalem...
Atoms vs Bits
Trust This one makes me sad to write, but: I've had two people who worked for me who told me early on that...
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This one makes me sad to write, but: I've had two people who worked for me who told me early on that their previous manager was terrible, horrible, a nightmare, etc. This instantly activated a visceral protectiveness in me, and made go out of my way to give
TheCollector
How Two Medicis Became Popes & Shaped European History In 1513, Giovanni de’ Medici, second son of Lorenzo “the Magnificent,” became the first Medici pope...
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In 1513, Giovanni de’ Medici, second son of Lorenzo “the Magnificent,” became the first Medici pope with the name of Leo X. The election of Giovanni inaugurated the apogee of the Medici family in the Italian peninsula. While Leo turned Rome into a leading cultural center, he...
Quanta Magazine
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its...
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Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved. The post Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface...
TheCollector
Can God Make You Act Immorally? Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling Fear and Trembling has become required reading for anyone interested in existentialism or Biblical...
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Fear and Trembling has become required reading for anyone interested in existentialism or Biblical exegesis. In this short text, Kierkegaard poses several challenging and complex philosophical and theological ideas. Here, we examine three key ideas expressed in the text: the...
Yale E360
World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out of Plastics Crisis, Report Warns The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to...
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The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Ahead of a U.N. conference on plastic pollution, authors warn that countries urgently...
Yale E360
World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out of Plastics Crisis, Report Warns The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to...
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The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet. Ahead of a U.N. conference on plastic pollution, authors warn that countries urgently...
Common Edge
When a Beloved Client Dies The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of...
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The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of architecture.
TheCollector
How Many Native Americans Were Killed During Colonization? The Native American population reached around seven million before European contact. Estimates for...
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The Native American population reached around seven million before European contact. Estimates for all the Americans range up to or past 45 million. In North America, Native Americans are grouped into six tribes, numbering between three and seven million people. The Eastern...
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
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Open Culture
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the...
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Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who’d never heard of him before. But that, it...
History Today Feed
‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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Open Culture
Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926) Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service...
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Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service of the mind,” or to create what Jasper Johns once called the “field where language, thought and vision act on one another.” And that’s precisely what Duchamp’s 1926 avant-garde...
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VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD.
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Daniel About? The Book of Daniel contains some of the most iconic scenes from the Bible. Children’s Bibles often...
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The Book of Daniel contains some of the most iconic scenes from the Bible. Children’s Bibles often depict Daniel in the lion’s den, or his friends in the fiery furnace. Yet, there is much more to Daniel than fantastic stories to entertain children. It holds significant lessons...
diamond geezer
Fleeting - Hampstead Heath Fleeting HAMPSTEAD HEATH The Fleet starts at the highest point in inner London which is the top...
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Fleeting HAMPSTEAD HEATH The Fleet starts at the highest point in inner London which is the top of Hampstead Heath. It starts here because the clay hills are capped with sandy soil - specifically the Bagshot Formation and the Claygate Member - thus groundwater emerges from...
The American Scholar
“Dead Man’s Hand” The post “Dead Man’s Hand” appeared first on The American Scholar.
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
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I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.04 - Slept Funny New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Comic for 2025.08.03 - Hear The Ocean New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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TheCollector
Is Tecumseh’s Curse a Coincidence or Bane of the Presidency? Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader of an instrumental Pan-Indian confederacy, stood up to the United...
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Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader of an instrumental Pan-Indian confederacy, stood up to the United States when his people and allies were threatened. He would be killed in the ensuing conflict, but with his death came rumors of a curse placed on the highest office in the land....
TheCollector
How John William Waterhouse Transformed 5 Greek Myths into Vivid Victorian Visions No artist brought Greek mythology to life for Victorian audiences like John William Waterhouse....
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No artist brought Greek mythology to life for Victorian audiences like John William Waterhouse. Around the turn of the century, the English painter infused classical themes with the poignant beauty of the Pre-Raphaelite style. In his hands, Greek myths were not merely retold, but...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What...
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I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g. Link protocols like mailto:, tel:, sms: and...
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Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
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Christian Prophets, Saints, and Relics in Zoroastrian Iran The Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is considered a zenith of Iranian civilization. The religion of the...
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The Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is considered a zenith of Iranian civilization. The religion of the Sasanians was Zoroastrianism, a dualistic religion with Ahura Mazda as its principal god and champion of Good. However, Zoroastrianism was not the only religion present, as...
TheCollector
10 Mythical Treasures of the Norse Gods Many gods are known for their attributes: the Greek god Zeus with his lightning bolt, the Egyptian...
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Many gods are known for their attributes: the Greek god Zeus with his lightning bolt, the Egyptian god Osiris with his crook and flail, and the Indian god Vishnu with his club, wheel, conch, and lotus flower. Norse myth and archaeological finds show that the Norse gods also had...
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8 Must-Visit Religious Sites in Japan Japan’s native religion, Shinto, is tied directly to the country’s customs, nature, and people....
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Japan’s native religion, Shinto, is tied directly to the country’s customs, nature, and people. Dotted across the island archipelago are countless shrines and temples that hold a deep significance to followers of Shinto. These sites allow both local and international visitors to...
TheCollector
Is the Ghent Altarpiece a Work of Realism or Idealism? While conventionally hailed as a work of precise realism, the Ghent Altarpiece at Saint Bavo...
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While conventionally hailed as a work of precise realism, the Ghent Altarpiece at Saint Bavo (otherwise known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) is as much a work of idealism. The Van Eycks carefully and skilfully crafted their realism within a sophisticated framework of...
TheCollector
What Are Some of Rome’s Unsolved Mysteries? From the strange disappearance of the ninth legion to the unknown substances that made up Roman...
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From the strange disappearance of the ninth legion to the unknown substances that made up Roman concrete, we take a closer look at a series of Rome’s greatest mysteries, which are largely unknown at the time of publication.   The Ninth Legion   One of the more famous Roman...
balajis.com
AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic And ten more thoughts on AI.
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diamond geezer
Fleeting August is Local History Month on diamond geezer, or has been on 14 previous occasions. Themes have...
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August is Local History Month on diamond geezer, or has been on 14 previous occasions. Themes have included my immediate neighbourhood, Metro-land, the Lea Valley, the New River, the perimeter of Tower Hamlets, London borough tops and the 51½°N line of latitude. But perhaps the...
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A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next...
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I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family must be to PowerPC. For example, the Palm OS moved from the DragonBall to ARM, and it's not necessarily a well-known fact that the...
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How Early Peoples of Latin America Interacted With Megafauna Approximately 11,000 years ago, in the Pleistocene epoch, humans began to enter present-day South...
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Approximately 11,000 years ago, in the Pleistocene epoch, humans began to enter present-day South America. There, they came face to face with the giants of their day—ground sloths over 20 feet long, armored glyptodonts the size of a car, and felines with foot-long teeth. Their...
diamond geezer
Pond Square 45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it...
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45 45 Squared 27) POND SQUARE, N6 Borough of Camden, 90m×90m×90m The thing about Pond Square is it doesn't have a pond and it's more of a triangle. We're on the northern edge of Camden off Highgate High Street, shielded behind Oxfam and the pink-fronted cake shop if you choose...