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All media becomes lost without intervention. It only stays at our fingertips if it's archived, often by librarians and historians, but also amateurs. Preservation is connected to curiosity, a deeply human emotion found in everything from Marco Polo traversing the globe to Lostwavers trawling through old radio archives. Lost media movements are a beautiful testament to humanity's love for details, chasing the unknown, and...

Shirtless lessons from the king of getting everyone else all hot and bothered. By Jazmine Hughes for The Cut.

Baby crocodile walks 2km [1.2 miles] to remote Aboriginal community in search of water. Remote residents were taken aback to discover a baby crocodile in a woman's front yard.Wangkatjungka is about 2km from the nearest waterway, Christmas Creek, and it seems the crocodile trekked to the community. Four Ngurrara Rangers were called to the scene, including locals Zenith Thomas and Justin Andrews. Women's ranger...

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school. As published in American Mathematical Monthly: "We present five trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, and our method for finding proofs (Section 5) yields at least five more."

For some, though, the delight of daydreaming can turn into a curse: The fantasies become such a successful form of escape that they take over the mind, becoming compulsive and preventing the dreamer from paying attention to important facets of reality—work, school, other people. from The Strange Rise of Daydreaming [Nautilus; ungated]

Wholesome Reddit Stories With Green Flag Energy. More wholesome Reddit stories are here to brighten your day. Green flag folks are everywhere in today's vid. A man confesses his love for his longtime best friend, a dad embraces his son and his new boyfriend, and a restaurant manager changes a homeless man's life. Dustin Poynter on YouTube reads stories from the AITA subreddit and...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a 200-metre-long blimp that could transform freight transport. An aeronautical group wants to create a global airship network to revolutionise freight transport. Outback Queensland has signed up to host the first Australian airship base.

Much has been made of the impending "great wealth transfer" as baby boomers and the Silent Generation pass on a combined $84.4 trillion in wealth to younger generations. Getting less attention is the "great stuff transfer," where everybody has to decipher what to do with the older generations' things. "What we're finding unilaterally across the board, pretty much without exception — you'll get a...

Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal Australian politician, first made claims of "genocide." ... Then, as she was being escorted out of the Great Hall of Parliament House, she kept calling out, "This is not your land, This is not your land. You are not my King, you are not our King." [people]elsewhere: Trump Encourages Genocide [truthout] 3/24 Trump administration rejects Congress vote on Armenia 'genocide'...

In 1877 the Brits were holding a celebration of "400 years of printing" to commemorate William Caxton's introduction of the first printing press to the Isles. At that event, the British public was invited to see examples of domestic and foreign printing. It wasn't pretty: British printing was visibly behind that of the Austrians. Tuer and Hailing decided to elevate British printing through a...

Half a dozen exceptional One Minute Films. Also, from reddit, half a dozen exceptional Five Minute films. (Five minutes or less, that is). Seven minute limit. Finally, ten good shorts under ten minutes.Looking for more shorts: Four dozen outstanding short films of varying duration.

Could good bugs be the secret ingredient to pesticide-free vegetables? An army of beneficial bugs is fighting the bad bugs that gnaw on your vegetables, protecting the borders of the largest greenhouse set-up in the southern hemisphere.

One last thing to win: Let's go relational by Michael Sifry on substack. Connecting to your own personal network to urge them to vote could tip the 2024 election where it matters most. .....For decades, nearly all Democratic field work has been structured around getting strangers to talk to strangers....What's confounding about this approach to activating voters is that everything we know about how...

"From the colonies to the Progressive Era to the twenty-first century, Americans have seriously considered making voting a duty of citizenship. That history helps illuminate the depth of democratic creativity in our Progressive past. And, given our crises of democracy today, that past should push us to keep reviving this powerful policy today."

She's 103 and Just Ran the 100-Meter Dash. Her Life Advice? 'Look for Magic Moments'Even though she had never competed on a track, Ms. Hawkins said that her children wanted to see how fast she could sprint. Her inexperience did not show. She ran 50 meters in a speedy 19 seconds at the Louisiana Senior Olympic Games, winning first place in her age group...

Phil Lesh has died... Phil has died. So many tears here. Writer of two of my favorite songs, Unbroken Chain, and Box of Rain, both of which will be played at my memorial service. Godspeed Phil...

Yesterday the LA Times announced it would not make an endorsement for President because the billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong refused to allow it, leading the editor the resign. Today the Washington Post announced it will not endorse a candiate either, reportedly because the billionaire owner Jeff Bezos refused to allow it. Meanwhile, the Onion's new owners just made a timely endorsement of Joe Biden.

BBC: Hundreds of truckles of cheddar worth more than £300,000 have been stolen from London cheese specialist Neal's Yard Dairy. Hundreds of truckles of cheddar worth more than £300,000 have been stolen from London cheese specialist Neal's Yard Dairy. Guardian: The 950 stolen cheeses were Hafod Welsh organic cheddar, Westcombe cheddar, and Pitchfork cheddar, which have won a number of awards and are among...

He has been one of the UK's favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now Paddington Bear – official name Paddington Brown – has been granted a British passport. The co-producer of the latest Paddington film said the Home Office had issued the specimen document to the fictional Peruvian-born character – listing for completeness the official observation that he is, in...

The poll found that more than two-thirds of Canadians agree that immigration has a positive economic impact. The biggest reason they gave for saying there is too much immigration is its impact on housing prices. (slWP - but archive.ph)

First black hole triple system discovered by astronomers. A system called V404 Cygni was thought to be a black hole and a companion star, but another star billions of kilometres away was also found gravitationally connected to the duo.

"The cozy fantasy genre encompasses a wide range of different types of fantasy books, but there's a surprisingly high proportion of cozy historical fantasy books among them. Maybe this is because fantasy often draws on the past to imagine what a society more reliant on magic than technology might look like. But I'm particularly interested in the fantasy books that really lean into the...

Chinese people, even the well-educated, are forgetting how to write common characters. What is the explanation for this peculiar problem?

In a kind of a zen way, those born ultra-rich live perpetually in the moment. Since they understand very little about causality, they do not understand how events happen or things get made. They can be filled with mystical wonderment at the spontaneous generation of material reality. They can also be blind to social realities that sit outside their lived knowledge, which is terrifyingly...