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Diogenes of Sinope, the antisocial philosopher who lived in a jar, had been expelled from his city for “debasement of coinage” From time to time the media inform us about some person, generally elderly, who has had to be assisted by social services because they live in a state of personal and social neglect, isolated in their...
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Is a Greek temple actually an overturned ship? A new theory revolutionizes the origin of classical architecture For centuries, the majestic temples of classical Greece, with the Parthenon at the forefront, have been studied, measured, and admired. Their forms have defined Western architecture. However, some of ...

Put your keels in the air like you just don't care...

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Time “trembles”: a study suggests its passage may not be perfectly uniform Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the subatomic world, rests on a persistent paradox. It describes particles that can exist in multiple states or locations simultaneously, a phenomenon mathem...

It really *is* wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

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The Phaistos Disc May Be the Board of a Millennia-Old Game Rather Than an Indecipherable Text For more than a century, the Phaistos Disc has been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeology. Discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos, on Crete, its surface covered with spiral-stamped s...

Roll a D6.

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B A G E L H E N G E

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"Hear them howling, my hungry children..."

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Possible DNA of Leonardo da Vinci extracted from some of his works of art An international team of scientists has, for the first time, applied a minimally invasive genetic analysis technique to Renaissance drawings and documents associated with Leonardo da Vinci and his fam...

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Astronomers Find Tatooine: A Planet Formed After the Dinosaur Extinction Orbits a Two-Sun Star System A team of astronomers from Northwestern University has managed to capture the direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a binary star system, a discovery of extreme rarity that challenges current concepti...

[Insert SW theme of choice here]

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Trapped. Don't send help.

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Electra Woman and

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Cosmic Knots and Strings: Cracks in the Fabric of Spacetime Explain Why the Universe Exists Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a realistic framework of particle physics, and that their fleeting dominance in ...

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Beautiful fungus growing on the split tree outside work. Been there for a few weeks, and it's about a foot tall.

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4 months ago
itiner-e

Ooh!

www.itiner-e.org

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Scientists Decode the Millennia-Old Mystery of the Maya Eclipse Table For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that survived the European conquest. On its pages, a complex table of numbers and...

WOW.

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5 months ago
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Researchers Believe the Enigmatic Gravitational Wave Detected in 2019 Came from Another Universe In September 2015, humanity heard the sound of the universe for the first time: gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. Since then, the LIGO and Virgo detectors have captured nearly a hundre...

Oooh, neat!

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The Minotaur of Crete May Have Been a Ritual Hallucination in the Labyrinthine Environment of the Palace of Knossos For millennia, the story of the Minotaur—a hybrid creature of man and bull confined in a labyrinth beneath the Palace of Knossos—has been a cornerstone of Greek mythology. Now, new research by indepen...

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Finally have the creel on as a front basket. Had to work with the holes that were there from the original strapping 😊👍🏾

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Heading to Wasteland in a week to help with build. Needed a new rug for our camp. The universe heard our request. Free from the neighbors down the street 🤎

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Got a new lamp.

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Tape tape tape painting painting painting. Retro vibes: light aqua blue and metallic gold trim. I'm so here for it. 💙💛

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Bathrooming. Painted gold trim will go next to the blue. So glad I was able to get the original color.

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7 months ago
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I cried when I read the envelope. We have some seriously amazing people come through here.

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7 months ago
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Bathroom finished! Now to put everything back, including a new shower curtain rod and regrouting part of the shower surround. Also cleaned the window. Didn't realize just how sticky the adhesive was when I put up the privacy screen. 😄

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How an Italian Priest Invented the First Fax to Transmit Images Remotely in the 19th Century The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the following decades of the 20th centu...
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I think our postal worker has it in for us 🤣

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For the gods so loved the world they sent their vulcanists to create more...

[screencap from Isak Finnbogason's drone livestream, ICELAND FPV]

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8 months ago
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Done with seeing strings of letters and numbers. Time to switch it up.

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8 months ago
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'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America — and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder' A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!1!!!11!!!

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8 months ago
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Ancient DNA Discovered in Remains of Roman Garum: This Is How the Empire’s Most Popular Condiment Was Made A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence DNA from fish remains found in an ancient Roman salting factory in northwestern Spain, providing insight into the production methods of the fa...

So...yum? Paging Max Miller! @tastinghistory.bsky.social

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Ignore my terrible posture. Thousands of tabs later, now starting sleeves 👍🏾

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