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Weather Balloon (idea)
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Big Red Horses
· It’s well documented FDR wanted to go to war against Germany long before the American public did. The public was over 90% against the idea early in the war. And yet we did end up going to war… · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
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Debussy in original colours (but briefer clothes)
· The Trio Zerline of Lyon, France – Alice... · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
Literary Hub
The Hero We Need: a Chinese man has been discovered reading books in a remote cave.
1 min · · It is with delight and despair that I draw your attention to the modern-day hermit “discovered” over the weekend in a cave in Sichuan province, China, just hanging out, reading books, and smoking c… · Shared by 10, including Ziad Shihab
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The Orville (2017 TV Series)
5 min · · The Orville's Aronov device presents the opportunity for time travel to be weaponized by the Kaylon, similar to the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact. Mark Donaldson 3 hours ago · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
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The Mona Lisa Cake Thrower Was 100% in the Right
5 min · · Was hurling confectionary at da Vinci’s masterpiece the ethical thing to do? Yes, argues journalist Diyora Shadijanova. And here’s why… · Shared by 11, including Ziad Shihab, Elephant Magazine
Literary Hub
How did alphabet books tackle the letter ‘x’ before x-rays and xylophones?
1 min · · The most common entries for ‘x’ in alphabet books nowadays are probably ‘x-ray’ and ‘xylophone’—based on anecdotal evidence only, someone do this research please… · Shared by 7, including Ziad Shihab
Neuroscience News
An Intriguing Connection Between Diet, Eye Health, and Lifespan
4 min · · A new study of drosophila reveals a link between circadian rhythm, diet, lifespan, and eye health. Unexpectedly, researchers found processes in the fly eye that appear to drive the aging process. · Shared by 10, including Ziad Shihab
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Impotence and Overripe Grapes: Cultural Decadence in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry
20+ min · · A wartime exile in his own country, Czesław Miłosz translated The Waste Land against “the glow from the burning ghetto.” This, for the Polish poet, made for “weird reading”: T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for… · Shared by 7, including Ziad Shihab
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Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site
20+ min · · World Record Dive On Wednesday, August 15, 1934, William Beebe and Otis Barton made themselves world famous by descending in their "Bathysphere" 3,028 feet beneath the ocean surface. 2009 marked the… · Shared by 7, including Ziad Shihab
Ben Goldacre
The Mystery Of The Steaming Turd
13+ min · · Ben Goldacre Saturday January 21, 2006 The Guardian I seem to have opened up a whole new front of bad science by looking into the high end hi-fi industry: but that will have to wait for next week.… · Shared by 4, including Ziad Shihab
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Fomenko A.T. MATHEMATICAL IMPRESSIONS
2 min · · AMS (American Mathematical Society), USA,Provedence, 1990. Dedicated to my parents, Valentina Polikarpovna and Timofei Grigor'evich Fomenko "I think of my drawings as if they were photographs of a… · Shared by 5, including Ziad Shihab
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The Magnificent Ambersons (US 1942)
10 min · · Produced at the RKO Studio and scripted and directed by Orson Welles; this film is a flawed classic, missing about forty minutes of the original version. It is screening on BBC 4 this coming Thursd… · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
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Nomen est omen
15+ min · · On nominative determinism and the power of names · Shared by 734, including Ziad Shihab, Colin Wright
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Home - Believer Magazine
1 min · · See More... Interviews Schemas Comics The Field More · Shared by 9, including Ziad Shihab
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Art in the Stacks: Dewey-inspired artwork
1 min · · Back in February 2020, I visited a library in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis to see their Dewey-inspired art, and I'm finally taking a moment to share what I saw! The Anoka County Library has… · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab