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Beer from Victorian Arctic expedition to be opened Dougal Gunn Sharp plans to use the Allsopp's Arctic Ale as the basis for a new limited edition beer.

Beer, bottled in 1875. 1875 was a very good year. Brahms wrote his String Quartet No. 3. Sivel's Zénith broke the altitude record. (hah!) And England recognized bad sanitation with the Public Health Act.

Beer from Victorian Arctic expedition to be opened
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Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects Research Highlights: A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely to be diagnosed with heart ...

Long-term use of reading to support sleep may have positive health effects... 📖

Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects
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Scientists are a step closer to testing ancient skeletons for pregnancy | CNN The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her death.

OK, how many times have you been asked not to fuck the skeletons?

Scientists are one step closer to testing ancient skeletons for pregnancy
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YouTube video by Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - Dead Ahead (New York, NY October 1980) [Full Concert]

15 of the 22 songs from Dead Ahead are from the October 31, 1980, performance (the other ones are from the night before) 🎃

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Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93 Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.

Oh I know...

Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies aged 93
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Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83 Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader

“I think playing with Miles, with Dave Holland, Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter was a very exciting period,” DeJohnette said of a band that produced Bitches Brew, Big Fun and a series of acclaimed live LPs.

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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

Welcome...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
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Follow the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Spotify

Follow venues in Spotify to learn about shows...

Search and Follow Your Favorite Venues on Spotify
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YouTube video by Sugar - Topic House of Dead Memories

First new Sugar tune in 30 years with the original line-up of Bob Mould, Malcolm Travis, and David Barbe.

House of Dead Memories - Sugar
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I say ye, Ace Frehley, who forever changed Halloween

Ace Frehley of KISS dies at 74
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How a Reddit User Proved Flat-Earthers Wrong As if we needed more proof, an internet legend traced the telling pattern of his garage's shadow over the course of a year.

See, what all flat earthers really need is an anal enema...

A Reddit user proved Earth isn't flat by creating an analemma
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Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings The story was written five months before Kerouac's masterpiece.

A newly discovered Jack Kerouac story called, “The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing,” has been described as a “lost chapter” from “On the Road.” The story was written in April 1957, five months before the book’s release.

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Image of two black holes circling each other captured for the first time For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs. In the past, astronomers...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs. The black holes orbit each other at the center of a quasar called OJ287.

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Endangered albatross native to Galapagos Islands spotted off Marin County coast in first documented sighting north of Costa Rica A seabird tour off the coast of Sonoma and Marin counties over the weekend included the sighting of a species of albatross that normally lives near the Galapagos Islands.

Birdwatchers aboard a seabird tour off the coast of Sonoma and Marin counties on Sunday spotted a critically endangered waved albatross, native to the Galapagos Islands. It is the first reported sighting of the bird north of Costa Rica.

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A picture of Nectar's...

Nectar’s, the Vermont venue that launched Phish, closes on a quiet note after 50 years
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'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live The primatologist was a

I say ye, Dr. Jane Goodall. 🐒

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
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Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life

The likelihood that Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, may harbor life has risen after researchers studying data from the Cassini mission discovered an array of carbon-based substances being spewed out of the moon.

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Was the “Wow! Signal” Emitted from 3I/ATLAS? The “Wow! Signal” was detected on August 15, 1977 as a strong narrowband radio signal by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope…

"The “Wow! Signal” was separated by approx. 4 degrees in Right Ascension and 8 degrees in Declination from the direction of 3I/ATLAS [its position on 8/15/1977]. The chance of two random directions in the sky being aligned to that level is about 0.6 percent."

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Study finds singing these three songs could help treat lung disease Researchers may have found a safe and effective treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD)

Singing Elvis’ Can’t Help Falling In Love, Let It Be by The Beatles and the wartime song Pack Up Your Troubles, can help improve the quality of life among patients with chronic lung disease.

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Hard pass. Cold brew. Dad bod. Merriam-Webster adds over 5,000 words to 'Collegiate' dictionary Merriam-Webster has fully revised its popular “Collegiate” dictionary with over 5,000 new words. They include “petrichor,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”

Pre-order your Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary now (coming Nov. 18). The first update in 22 years adds 5,000 new words, including jesus-fuck, mother puss bucket (finally), orange stain, and dick weasel. What? Oh, not those yet, but others.

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One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Another wonderful movie score from Jonny Greenwood, one track co-written with Thom Yorke (Mean Alley)...

One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's landmark album One Size Fits All, reissued with extra bells, whistles, kitchen sink, etc

Super Deluxe edition of Frank Zappa's 1975 masterpiece, One Size Fits All, released today, features a remastered LP, unreleased outtakes, a 1974 Rotterdam concert, and more.

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Why September 27, 2025 is the 'coolest mathematical date of our lifetime' Get ready for a whacky series of numerical coincidences.

Write out Sept 27, 2025, as 09/27/2025, eliminate the forward slashes, and you get 9,272,025 (the square of 3,045). OK, for day first, 27 Sept, 2025 would be 27/09/2025, or 27,092,025 (the square of 5,205). Sept 27 is only one of eight global square days this century.

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We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising Study Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada.

That's my love light, and it's shining on you. 😘

We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die
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Want to Get Away? NASA Now Offers More Than 6,000 Alien Worlds to Daydream About It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows

The number of confirmed exoplanets is now either 6,007, or six, 007, depending on who's asking.

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Scientists Found 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

You see 7,000 year old mummy DNA. I see Neolithic Female Herders From the Takarkori Rock Shelter appearing with ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead live at the Windswept Burning Man Orgy Dome. We are not the same.

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The semi-colon is going the way of the pilcrow, silcrow, and percontation point; who gives a fuck?

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Chimps 'lager a day' in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory Scientists say chimps consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager a day from dining on ripe fruit.

Chimpanzees are endangered. The biggest threat they face is deforestation. The second biggest threat they face is DUI deaths.

Chimps drinking a lager a day in ripe fruit, study finds
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Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 close encounter: online observation - 18 Sept. 2025 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 See the potentially hazardous asteroid 2025 FA22 close encounter LIVE, from the comfort of your home. Join us online on 18 Sept. 2025.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2025 FA22 will have a close encounter with Earth, coming within 842,000km, or 2.2x the average lunar distance. Join a live Virtual Telescope Project observation at 8pm Pacific time TONIGHT, Sept 17 (which is 03:00 UTC Sept 18)

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30,000-year-old toolkit shows what ancient hunter carried in a pouch A set of 29 stone tools, including blades and points for hunting, butchering and cutting wood, were found neatly arranged as if carried in a leather pouch that decayed

30,000-year-old hunter-gatherer BDSM torture kit discovery contains 29 artefacts, including blades and points meant to enhance sensory experiences, power dynamics, and control (and possibly for hunting, skinning, basic butchering and cutting wood as well).

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