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Open Culture
Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times The expression “YOLO” may now be just passé enough to require explanation. It stands, as only some...
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The expression “YOLO” may now be just passé enough to require explanation. It stands, as only some of us would try to deny remembering, for “You only live once,” a sentiment that reflects an eternal truth. Some bodies of religious belief don’t strictly agree with it, of course,...
Londonist
The North London Park Where Tube Trains Rumble Over A Viaduct Picture perfect.
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diamond geezer
Pictograms Pictograms 30 July - 9 November Japan House High Street Kensington admission free 2018 as a venue...
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Pictograms 30 July - 9 November Japan House High Street Kensington admission free 2018 as a venue to share and celebrate Japanese culture and design. And what could be more Japanese than the pictogram - a suite of graphic symbols that convey meaning through symbolic...
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A 1-Day Virtual Symposium on Future of Astronomy For those of you with a deeper interest in astronomy and how we learn about the universe, this may...
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For those of you with a deeper interest in astronomy and how we learn about the universe, this may be of interest.  There is a good discount if you register before Aug. 10. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific Presents: Eyes on the Cosmos: Cutting Edge Instruments and Ideas in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers' Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life...
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Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life spent mostly as a soldier, though he lived for some time in Paris and was befriended by Voltaire. His health was never good. No longer in the army, Vauvenargues died of complications...
Charlie Becker
One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July Charlie Becker Letter #97
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Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by...
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In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
nanoscale views
Brief items - Static electricity, quantum geometry, Hubbard model, + news It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the...
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It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks. Physics Today has a cover article this past issue about what is colloquially known as static electricity, but what is more technically described as...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.08 - Flashing New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT-5 On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
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Flashbak
The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche, 1923 The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country (1909) is a collection...
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The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country (1909) is a collection of short stories set in the 1400s by French writer and Noel Laureate Anatole France (1844 – 1924). The 1923 edition contains illustrations from woodcuts by the British artist Marcia...
Open Culture
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926) It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human...
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It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hugely important figures like Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu...
Computer Ads from...
Practical Computing Interviewed Alan Sugar (1985) A Quick Look Behind the Scenes at Amstrad.
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Arduino Blog
A robotic hand with the dexterity to sign the whole ASL alphabet Even if we ignore intelligence, humans are able to speak when other animals — even other great apes...
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Even if we ignore intelligence, humans are able to speak when other animals — even other great apes — can’t, because of our specialized and complex vocal anatomy. Similarly, ASL (American Sign Language) wouldn’t be possible without our incredible hand and finger dexterity. Like...
One Useful Thing
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
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Both Are True
"bathang 4pm est today is gonna be l*t" seriously everyone is saying it and i'm not even paying most of them anymore
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The Framework Desktop is a beast I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible...
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I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible machine. It's completely quiet, even under heavy, stress-all-cores load. It's tiny too, at just 4.5L of volume, especially compared to my old beautiful but bulky North tower...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Floral Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It will inflate like a beached dolphin on a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It will inflate like a beached dolphin on a summer's day. Today's News: Get your copy of A City on Mars signed in person in Charlottesville, VA on August 23rd!
Quanta Magazine
How Can Math Protect Our Data? Mary Wootters discusses how error-correcting codes work, and how they are essential for reliable...
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Mary Wootters discusses how error-correcting codes work, and how they are essential for reliable communication and storage. The post How Can Math Protect Our Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Construction Physics
Group Technology, the Forgotten Cousin of Lean Manufacturing Industrial improvement systems — strategies for making a business more profitable, more efficient,...
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Industrial improvement systems — strategies for making a business more profitable, more efficient, or better operated — rise and fall in popularity over time.
Common Edge
Tales of an Urban Critic: A Search for the Soul of Cities and Self Sam Kaplan Hall recounts his wide-ranging life in a new memoir that contains more than a few great...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.07 - Thicker Than Water New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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TheCollector
How Do Hestia and Vesta Differ in Greek and Roman Mythology? Almost every famous Greek God or Goddess has a Roman counterpart, many of whom were used to name the...
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Almost every famous Greek God or Goddess has a Roman counterpart, many of whom were used to name the planets in our solar system, like Jupiter (Zeus) and Neptune (Poseidon). The Romans adopted much of Ancient Greek religion, renaming deities while retaining their core attributes...
Rest of World -...
Google vs. Perplexity fight plays out in India as AI battle intensifies Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing...
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Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing ground and source of training data for AI models.
TheCollector
Why Ancient Greeks Wrote Without Spaces or Punctuation To modern eyes, ancient Greek writing looks like an impenetrable code—an unbroken wall of capital...
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To modern eyes, ancient Greek writing looks like an impenetrable code—an unbroken wall of capital letters across stone or parchment without a single space or discernible punctuation mark.   This format is called scriptio continua, Latin for “continuous script.” There is no...
Seth's Blog
Compounding luck Human luck doesn’t even out. Regression to the mean explains that in statistics, outlying events...
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Human luck doesn’t even out. Regression to the mean explains that in statistics, outlying events tend to be overcome by average ones. But in society, the opposite is often true. A small headstart becomes a bigger one, or a small stumble can turn into something that is hard to...
David Heinemeier...
YouTube has earned its crown I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new...
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I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behind the majority of the products they launch for longer than a KPI cycle. But when...
Open Culture
The Spinal Tap Sequel Arrives Next Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul... This Is Spinal Tap came out more than 40 years ago. At the time, says director Rob Reiner in a...
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This Is Spinal Tap came out more than 40 years ago. At the time, says director Rob Reiner in a recent interview at San Diego Comic-Con, “nobody got it. I mean, they thought I’d made a movie about a real band that wasn’t very good, and why wouldn’t I make a movie about the Beatles...
Londonist
Local History Shines At Bloomsbury Festival 2025 Packed programme of art, music, theatre and history.
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History Today Feed
How Important was the French Revolution? How Important was the French Revolution? JamesHoare Thu, 08/07/2025 - 08:38
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Maps Mania
Ocean Warming Stripes
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Londonist
Where The Streets Have One Name Strand, Poultry, Minories... explaining our city's mononymic roads.
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TheCollector
Taoism, the Philosophy of Flow & Embracing Effortlessness The struggle for control over every aspect of life is common in modern Western society. However,...
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The struggle for control over every aspect of life is common in modern Western society. However, this approach can be juxtaposed with the ancient Chinese religious and philosophical ideas of Taoism. Taoism offers a guide for living a free-flowing life that is guided by the...
diamond geezer
Chesterfield Gadabout: CHESTERFIELD Chesterfield is the largest town in Derbyshire, but only because Derby is a...
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Gadabout: CHESTERFIELD Chesterfield is the largest town in Derbyshire, but only because Derby is a city. It lies 10 miles south of Sheffield, sandwiched between the Peak District and the M1 on the edge of an abandoned coalfield. But it's best known for the twisted spire of its...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Old Men Are Generally Narrative' A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives...
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A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives nearby. Our lives are well-populated. With age, that alignment of geography and acquaintance attenuates. Live long enough and our birthplace turns incrementally, across the decades,...
The American Scholar
Streams of Consciousness A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first...
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A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens Known for its countless archaeological sites, busy nightlife, and quirky architecture, Athens...
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Known for its countless archaeological sites, busy nightlife, and quirky architecture, Athens welcomes millions of tourists every year. Although open-air sites are the most popular Athenian landmarks, there are also more than 70 museums and galleries to visit. Whether you are a...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fiona Rimmer Hi, my name is Fiona Rimmer and I'm a printmaker/etcher from Hampshire, UK where I live with my...
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Hi, my name is Fiona Rimmer and I'm a printmaker/etcher from Hampshire, UK where I live with my husband, 3 sons and a beautiful dog called Skyla (the humans are beautiful too).  I have a degree in Fine Art from Lancaster University and an MA in Illustration from Falmouth...
Flashbak
Logan Airport Versus Neptune Road, Photographing Boston’s ‘War’ of 1973 “I look at these photographs and feel the overwhelming sensation of the noise of these low-flying...
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“I look at these photographs and feel the overwhelming sensation of the noise of these low-flying aircraft. Yet I could leave what seemed like a war zone. And it was a kind of war, long-time residents trying for normalcy and the powers that be wanting them out.” – Michael Philip...
Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Unlock Manhattan with Julia Gamolina of Madame Architect Manhattan: So much to do, so little time! To make New York City's most densely populated borough...
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Manhattan: So much to do, so little time! To make New York City's most densely populated borough more accessible for out-of-towners and residents alike, we've asked Julia Gamolina to host today's Archinect City Guide. Beyond her role as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...
TheCollector
The Art of Deception: How WWII Was Won With Trickery In 1939, World War II erupted in Europe. This war, mechanized with tanks, trucks, and fighter...
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In 1939, World War II erupted in Europe. This war, mechanized with tanks, trucks, and fighter planes, was faster and more mobile than any previous conflict. To gain an advantage over similarly matched rivals, both the Allied and Axis powers added a significant new element to...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive...
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In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on
Both Are True
batwrite is write now !! see what i did ? the word play etc?
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Adventures In...
Time-warp walkability mapping in ArcGIS Pro In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also...
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In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Writing: Blog Posts and Songs I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter,...
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I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter, political activist, and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and the interviewer asks him how he approaches writing songs with social commentaries and critiques — something along...
TheCollector
The Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act (Analysis) Fascination with people of the past has been a common theme of Western civilizations throughout...
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Fascination with people of the past has been a common theme of Western civilizations throughout history, with Americans proving to be no exception. The disinterment of Indigenous people began not long after the arrival of European settlers. Not only were people removed from what...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs #62: World models are the breakthrough AI agents need Welcome to machine learning for software engineers.
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Basta’s Notes
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
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Tony Finch's blog
p-fast trie, but smaller Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide...
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Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide fan-out variant of an x-fast trie. It allows you to find the longest matching prefix or nearest predecessor or successor of a query string in a set of names in O(log k) time, where k...
Classical Wisdom
Rome’s Forgotten Exile Power, betrayal, and the twenty-year silence of Julia the Younger.
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TheCollector
The Age-Old Art Historical Debate of Colorito vs Disegno The Renaissance was a period of innovations and intellectualism, where artists and patrons of the...
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The Renaissance was a period of innovations and intellectualism, where artists and patrons of the art world both shared and debated new ideas and concepts. The debate of colorito versus disegno emerged in the 16th century in Florence and Venice, with Florentine artists...
Yale E360
More Intense El Niños May Be Driving Loss of Tropical Insects Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world. Mysteriously, losses are...
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Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world. Mysteriously, losses are underway even in areas untouched by logging, mining, or farming. In these places, new research posits, more potent El Niños are driving the declines. Read more on E360 →
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Picky Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could eat an entire cake without a stomach...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could eat an entire cake without a stomach ache, would YOU ever eat all your broccoli? Today's News: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? The Weinersmiths investigate...
Quanta Magazine
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A...
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A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks. The post New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The 3 Phases of Medieval Architecture (With HD Images) The Middle Ages is often unfairly characterized as a time of stagnation, with little in the way of...
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The Middle Ages is often unfairly characterized as a time of stagnation, with little in the way of cultural achievement. Far from being true, this was an era of cultural advances that still leave modern minds in awe. The most enduring art form of the era was architecture....
Scott Jenson
Hype is a Business Tool Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started...
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Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started playing with ChatGPT? Like everyone else, you probably created a poem in a pirate’s voice. “Pirate Poetry” was fun, exciting, and even playful. Today, EVERYONE is talking about AI, and...
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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
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Atoms vs Bits
The Golden Mean Do, or do not
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Computer Things
Software books I wish I could read New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with...
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New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here. Software books I wish I could read I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
Londonist
Banksy Artwork Goes On Display At London Transport Museum Rat on clock was discovered in 2019.
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Arduino Blog
Updated Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta)   Last December we released our beta Arduino cores based on Zephyr. Today, we are excited to make...
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Last December we released our beta Arduino cores based on Zephyr. Today, we are excited to make another step in this beta program for Arduino cores based on Zephyr! ZephyrOS is an open-source, state-of-the-art, real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for low-power,...
Londonist
Would You Like To See More White Storks In London? They Could Be Making A Comeback Plans to rewild the leggy birds.
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diamond geezer
East Midlands quiz East Midlands quiz Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire A) Bigsofa B) Rugbolt C) Nicercub D)...
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East Midlands quiz Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire A) Bigsofa B) Rugbolt C) Nicercub D) Localmatch E) Glancearea F) Typeamaze G) Ringereach H) Yearntasted I) Gossipvalue J) Glazesurgery K) Cookproperly L) Dollarsweight M) Babywrapjacket        Nottinghamshire N)...
TheCollector
What Was the Phoenician Trade Network? The Phoenicians’ success from the late Bronze Age on sat astride an already strong foundation. This...
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The Phoenicians’ success from the late Bronze Age on sat astride an already strong foundation. This base in what’s now Lebanon consisted of three successful trade hubs (Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos). With fewer opportunities inland, they took to the seas. They sailed west across the...
Rest of World -...
China’s AI drug discovery companies land huge deals with Big Pharma Multibillion-dollar partnerships show China’s rising influence in AI-driven pharmaceuticals.
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TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained At its peak, the Angevin Empire stretched from Scotland to France, a formidable medieval dominion...
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At its peak, the Angevin Empire stretched from Scotland to France, a formidable medieval dominion under the English kings of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Shaped by pivotal figures such as Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, and King John, this empire experienced a...
Noahpinion
Immigrant memoir comics! Learning about the immigrant experience by reading graphic novels
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Notifications Take back your attention.
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Seth's Blog
The table of contents (and the index) The index is the search bar, the random access to the facts we can look up. The table of contents,...
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The index is the search bar, the random access to the facts we can look up. The table of contents, though, that’s a point of view. It’s a taxonomy of how to understand a complicated idea. It’s the skeleton of the narrative and the pedagogy for learning. We’re at risk of becoming...
Open Culture
Watch Meshes of the Afternoon, the Experimental Short Voted the 16th Best Film of All Time It seems not to be documented whether the Santa Ana winds were blowing when Maya Deren and Alexander...
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It seems not to be documented whether the Santa Ana winds were blowing when Maya Deren and Alexander Hackenschmied shot Meshes of the Afternoon. But everything about the film itself suggests that they must have been, so vivid does its atmosphere of luxuriantly arid paranoia...
Londonist
Where To See Jane Austen's Works Live On Stage This Autumn London theatres celebrate 250th anniversary of the author's birth.
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Handprinted - Blog
Speedball Speedy Carve Block using Process Colours Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our...
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Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our blog, but this time we have created a process with a three-layered print. For a layered print like this, it's helpful to start with a drawing. Map out the colours to plan their...
History Today Feed
What’s in a Pope’s Name? What’s in a Pope’s Name? JamesHoare Wed, 08/06/2025 - 09:03
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Open Culture
Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach... We all know Marshall McLuhan’s pithy, endlessly quotable line “the medium is the message,” but...
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We all know Marshall McLuhan’s pithy, endlessly quotable line “the medium is the message,” but rarely do we stop to ask which one comes first. The development of communication technologies may genuinely present us with a chicken or egg scenario. After all, only a culture that...
Maps Mania
The Underground Atlas
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Londonist
What's The Commonest Baby Name In London? 2024 Stats Announced Find out the commonest names in your borough.
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Ezekiel About? From the first chapter, the Book of Ezekiel is packed with vivid imagery and colorful descriptions...
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From the first chapter, the Book of Ezekiel is packed with vivid imagery and colorful descriptions of God’s warnings to his people about the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel pivots later to messages of hope and restoration, calling on the...
diamond geezer
Hyperlocal signage news Hyperlocal Signage News Delays are expected to continue until October. It's probably related...
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Hyperlocal Signage News Delays are expected to continue until October. It's probably related to the aforementioned sewer repairs. But it has a misplaced apostrophe. I wish someone would take it away.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Every Garden Is a Vast Hospital' On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted...
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On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted eight butterfly species there this summer and found a monarch chrysalis hanging from a tropical milkweed plant. Brown and green anoles have densely colonized the garden, which has never been...
The Honest Broker
Why Do Children Hate Music Lessons? I love music, but not how it’s taught
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The American Scholar
Horse and Runner The post Horse and Runner appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Snake-in-the-Box Problem
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.06 - Enemies New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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tonsky.me
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
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Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Age of AI Flattery How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
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Acko.net
HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
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Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
TheCollector
Japan’s Legendary Shaman Queen Who Ended a Civil War Japanese history is not short on great women, from fearsome female warriors to wise empresses,...
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Japanese history is not short on great women, from fearsome female warriors to wise empresses, poets, and more. Yet one name rarely makes its way to classrooms and the Japanese consciousness: Himiko. Many historians believe that she was a real 3rd-century-CE warrior queen and...
Arduino Blog
Is your heating radiator working? This system uses edge AI to find out Heating isn’t just about comfort in very cold regions in the world, it is absolutely critical. If...
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Heating isn’t just about comfort in very cold regions in the world, it is absolutely critical. If your home’s heat fails when you’re away, you might get back to find burst pipes. That’s especially problematic for large apartment buildings that rely on central boilers and...
Build In Public...
The Job Search for Independents Just Got AI-Powered The 2 AM job hunt is officially over thanks to Indy AI 🚀
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Musings on Markets
The Imitation Game: Defending against AI's Dark Side! A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was...
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A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was allegedly starring in, where after offering my views on Palantir's valuation, I was soliciting investors to invest with me (or with an investment entity that had ties to me). I was not...
Yale E360
Israeli Forces Allegedly Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used...
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Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds, according to the group managing the facility. The attack comes as an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has fueled widespread hunger in the...
Yale E360
Israeli Forces Allegedly Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used...
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Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds, according to the group managing the facility. The attack comes as an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has fueled widespread hunger in the...
TheCollector
The Roman Republic’s “Career Path” That Allowed Soldiers to Become Consuls When the Romans ousted their kings and established the Republic, they established checks and...
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When the Romans ousted their kings and established the Republic, they established checks and balances to ensure that no one man could gain too much power. This system of regulation included the Cursus Honorum, which was the acceptable order in which Roman public offices should be...
./techtipsy
How to run Uptime Kuma in Docker in an IPv6-only environment I use Uptime Kuma to check the availability of a few services that I run, with the most important...
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I use Uptime Kuma to check the availability of a few services that I run, with the most important one being my blog. It’s really nice. Today I wanted to set it up on a different machine to help troubleshoot and confirm some latency issues that I’ve observed, and for that purpose...
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Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
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Zeus overthrew his father, Cronos, to become the king of the gods and also had a complicated relationship with his own children. When he received a prophecy that his son with Metis would overthrow him, he tricked the pregnant Metis into turning into a fly and swallowed her. As a...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from the Green River in northern Utah like a concrete wedge driven into the canyon, anchored against the sheer rock walls that flank it. It’s quintessential, in a way. It’s what we...
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M Moser Associates designed the Steelcase offices and showroom in Hangzhou, creating a flexible and immersive workspace that seamlessly blends...
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Mehmed the Conqueror, the Sultan Who Took Constantinople Mehmed II (the Conqueror) transformed the Ottoman state into a centralized and bureaucratized...
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Mehmed II (the Conqueror) transformed the Ottoman state into a centralized and bureaucratized empire. Like other rulers of his time, he was devout and believed in his right to rule with an iron fist. Yet, he was also a Renaissance prince at heart. Inspired by classical learning,...
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Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01) with England’s performance in cricket World Cups? What’s going on here? Is interest in funny cat videos driven by the excitement created by cricket victories. Perhaps cat memes are...
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The problem of dirty hands in society is a deceptively simple idea. At its heart is the question: is it ever permissible to do something morally wrong in order to secure a later good? There are many formulations of the problem and disagreements over what counts as “getting one’s...
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Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Continuing its retail expansion in China‘s first-tier cities, Yohji Yamamoto has just inaugurated a new standalone boutique in Nanjing. The...
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A talk with photographer Stanley Greenberg about his new book documenting the vast infrastructure of the city’s water system.
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What Does the Bible Say About the Fate of Angels and Demons? Despite their tantalizing presence all over the Bible, readers are left with a lot of questions not...
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Despite their tantalizing presence all over the Bible, readers are left with a lot of questions not only about where angels and demons came from but also about where they might be going. While some passages allude to the final annihilation of demons, these references use...
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They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
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The history of medicine is, for the most part, a history of dubious cures. Some were even worse than dubious: for example, the ingestion of antimony, which we now know to be a highly toxic metal. Though it may not occupy an exalted (or, for students in chemistry class,...
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I’ve spent months creating something I’m excited to share: The Mentor Deck. Here’s an invite for 2,000 people to purchase and test the very first edition. Reading a book changes how you think. But turning those ideas into action? That’s where most of us get stuck. You need more...
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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is such a work of art that to split it up into nine tracks—like classic rock radio has done for years—always sounds nonsensical. How can you just end “Breathe” on that final chord and not follow it with the analog drones of “On the Run”? How can...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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V.S. Pritchett is asked in his Paris Review interview, “Do you think living and writing conflict?” – a rather silly question -- and he replies: “I have always thought that life and literature are intermingled and that this intermingling has been my quest.” Spoken like the kind of...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I know what scene you're thinking of, and you have a dirty dirty mind. Today's News: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? The Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
Seth's Blog
What sort of better? Sneakers are better for running a marathon, but shoes are better for a wedding reception. This is...
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Sneakers are better for running a marathon, but shoes are better for a wedding reception. This is the better of utility. Finding something that does the job it sets out to do. And then there is the better of taste. Yellow mustard might be better than Dijon mustard. Not for me,...
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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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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...
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“ordinary sanity in extraordinary prose”  The phrase is the American poet David Mason’s in his essay “The Freedom of Montaigne.” In characterizing the Frenchman and his essays, Mason describes an ideal seldom attained and occasionally scorned. Today, extreme, sweeping statements...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
Seth's Blog
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No important movie has ever been a solo project. While we can see a director’s point of view from movie to movie, the collaborative nature of the work is evident. Actors, cinematographers and musicians all change what we see. And because of the huge amount of time and money...
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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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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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The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s school kids simply to “Just Say No.” The message was stupefyingly simple. Drugs,...
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I'm pleased to announce that your daily diamond geezer blogpost is now available on YouTube. Here's yesterday's bus route post presented in video format. My thanks to Ryan, the AI voiceover bot, for doing the commentary. And wow, who realised a single 1200-word post could...
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What Did Sargon of Akkad and Sargon of Assyria Have in Common? Sargon of Akkad (ruled c. 2334-2279 BCE) and Sargon II of Assyria (ruled 721-705 BCE) were two of...
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Sargon of Akkad (ruled c. 2334-2279 BCE) and Sargon II of Assyria (ruled 721-705 BCE) were two of the greatest rulers in ancient Near Eastern history. Despite sharing the same name, the two men were from different dynasties and lived more than 1,500 years and hundreds of miles...
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Ofcom media trends report Ofcom's annual report on UK media trends was released yesterday, packed with fascinating insights...
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Ofcom's annual report on UK media trends was released yesterday, packed with fascinating insights about how we consume audio, video, news and all kinds of on-demand streaming. [94 page pdf] Over a typical month, (85%) than live TV (67%) (68%) than streamed music (62%) (53%)...
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I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive, relaxed states of consciousness. I’m awake but almost empty. I might be taking a shower or staring out the window at nothing. That’s when I occasionally find myself in an old song or...
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During the Middle Ages, devout Christians venerated holy people known as saints. As everyday Christians made it through the struggles of life, they found comfort by identifying with saints, some of whom had extremely strange and unusual stories, or vitae. As strange as some of...
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The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.
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Although the tradition of Christian monasticism had its origins in 3rd-century Egypt and the Levant, its medieval form was firmly established by St. Benedict’s Rule of the 6th century. Benedictine monasteries adopted this set of rules and became widespread across Europe in the...
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In 79 CE, the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the prosperous cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum near Naples. A densely populated city was buried under ash, lava, and stone, but its life was not over. Groups of survivors went on to rebuild their lives in other...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary. Today's News: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? The Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest questions humanity has:...