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These Other Londons
London, like New York, is often too busy, and too much in flux, to play itself...
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Nobody Elected Elon
Today at 5 p.m. EST on February 4th, 2025, a rally began at the Treasury to...
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The Adventurer
If you know Space:1999, you know that Victor Bergman (Barry Morse) and Maya (Catherine Schell) never...
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The World’s Largest Landowners
Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land...
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Scientists and Aboriginal rangers make exciting discovery of new lizard
Scientists and Aboriginal rangers make exciting discovery of new lizard species in remote Australia. Scientists have...
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The last of the Three Marias
Morreu a escritora Maria Teresa Horta, a última das "Três Marias" [sapo; google translation]Maria Teresa Horta:...
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James Bruton builds an omni-directional ball-wheeled bike
James Bruton builds an omni-directional ball-wheeled bike (SLYT)
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'and they decided to hate us more.'
I picture my twenty-three-year-old self, back in 2010. What would I say to her? Things aren't...
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Alexander McQueen's 'No. 13 Finale'
No. 13 Finale is a performance artwork by fashion designer Alexander McQueen... It consists of model...
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Hubbert's peak
How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from...
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We need to uncouple the concept of technology from the ideas of progress
The parts of the world that register the most patents are also, coincidentally, the parts of...
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Lace monitor on farm an inspiring sign of Black Summer recovery
Lace monitor an inspiring symbol of recovery five years after Black Summer bushfires. A 1.8-metre-long (5.9...
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There's more than one level, I promise
Bluejeweled: a mod for bejeweled 3 to add more blue
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vorauseilender Gehorsam
CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms:...
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John Coltrane's 'The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording'
"...a deliriously scattered mess of joy and pain, intermingled and bound up within Coltrane's unbridled and...
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Video Game History and Those Who Preserve It
The Video Game History Foundation have recently opened their online library. A long-running project to preserve...
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Don't Believe Him
Many Democrats agree that the first two weeks of Trump's second term have been rough, even...
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Nuclear sprinter
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is widely considered to be a dry and...
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Breaking the Unspoken Contract
How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage. (SLNYT) "At the table, in front of the fire,...
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This is soothing and cute
Tiny Worlds in Flasks game Just make yourself a terrarium online. Suggested by chavenet.
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Winter Soldier
Winter Soldier is a 1972 American documentary film, chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place...
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And you get a tariff! And you get a tariff! Everyone gets a tariff!
Canada hits back with comparable tariffs to the US after Trump cocks up a longstanding alliance....
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The organic veggie garden that sprang to life on an arid salt pan
The organic veggie garden that sprang to life on an arid salt pan. A community-supported agriculture...
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17th Place: Punxsatawney Phil
In honor of Groundhog Day and in the spirit of fun, we pitted groundhogs from all...