Scientists are studying its bowel movements, its dazzling sparkle, and its relation to us.#genetics #evolution #bioluminescence #anatomy #animals #section-Articles
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When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903
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When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903
Even if you don't speak Italian, you can make a decent guess at the meaning of the word mangiamaccheroni.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences offers a master gardener pollinator habitat certification. You have to provide food, water, and shelter, as well as reduce invasives and pesticide use.
The planning worksheet is great for anyone who doesn't know where to start. See the recommended #NativePlants list for people in the PA/Mid-Atlantic region.
The certificate (and sign) could prove useful for code enforcement/neighbors/HOA problems.
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Pollinator Habitat Certification - The Center for Pollinator Research
The Master Gardener Pollinator Habitat Certification program is designed to teach gardeners of all levels how to create and maintain habitat for pollinators sucpollinators.psu.edu
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The most important thing in photography is to find your light so you can make sure the cat is in it. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.
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"With mindfulness we can see the poetry and beauty all around us. We can see the miracles of life."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#quote #mindfulness #thichnhấthạnh #beauty #Miracles #dailylife
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One of many remarkable ancient oaks at Lochwood, Dumfriesshire 🏴 for #ThickTrunkTuesday
Lochwood is one of only three known surviving #medieval #oak woodlands in #Scotland. All three are in medieval parks. It provides crucial data back to the 1500s for dendro-dating & climate studies.
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Reclaiming your own land: Why learning Welsh is harder for Welsh people
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Reclaiming your own land: Why learning Welsh is harder for Welsh people
Aran Jones Author, SaySomethingIn It’s not fair! Learning Welsh is more difficult for Welsh people (but that turns out to be a good thing) You grow up without the language – it’s just a postcode lottery, it’s not your fault at all.Stephen Price (Nation.Cymru)
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Who's up for some gratuitous wombats?
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‘Truly unique find’: part of Swindon Stegosaur returns to Wiltshire town theguardian.com/science/2025/j… #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Archaeology #Dinosaurs #Wiltshire #Swindon #Fossils #England #Science #UKnews
‘Truly unique find’: part of Swindon Stegosaur returns to Wiltshire town
Vertebra spotted by fossil hunters on online marketplace is part of first stegosaur ever named by scientistsSteven Morris (The Guardian)
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Marconi Wireless Station Site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.#rmstitanic #history #radio #telecommunications #section-Atlas
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AI-Weekly for Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - Issue 149
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The Most Active Volcano in The Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt : ScienceAlert…
Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's coast, causing it to swell in changing patterns that hint at impending strife... #volcano #pacificocean #axialseamount
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The Most Active Volcano in The Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt : ScienceAlert…
Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon’s coast, causing it to swell in changing patterns that hint at impendi…for much deliberation
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#OTD in 1860.
The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine All the Year Round.
He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School in London, in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer.
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The Uncommercial Traveller at PG:
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The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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#OTD in 1853.
Charlotte Brontë's novel, Villette, appears, its publication having been delayed in order to allow Ruth, by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell, to be given a head start in the press.
Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third & last novel published during her life. It was preceded in writing by The Professor (her posthumously published 1st novel, of which Villette is a reworking, though still not very similar), Jane Eyre, & Shirley.
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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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#KnowledgeByte: The ultimate fate of the #Universe is a question that has fascinated scientists and philosophers for centuries.
Based on current scientific understanding, there are a few main theories about how the universe might end.
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How Will The Universe End?
The ultimate fate of the universe is a question that has fascinated scientists and philosophers for centuries. Based on current scientific understanding, there are a few main theories about how the universe might end.Knowledge Zone
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The Guardian: UK weather: homes evacuated as rain and wind continue to batter England and Wales…
Parts of the UK are facing another day of weather-related disruption as more rain and wind sweep across the country, while hundreds of people are having to clean up after homes and businesses were flooded... The Guardian #unitedkingdom #extremeweather #climatechange
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The Guardian: UK weather: homes evacuated as rain and wind continue to batter England and Wales…
Parts of the UK are facing another day of weather-related disruption as more rain and wind sweep across the country, while hundreds of people are having to clean up after homes and businesses were …for much deliberation
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#OTD 1754.
Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a lost painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip.
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Horace Walpole at PG:
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Books by Walpole, Horace (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 75,056 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died #OTD in 2002.
She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.
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Lonely Abandoned Lion Touches Grass for First Time laughingsquid.com/lion-touches…
Lonely Abandoned Lion Touches Grass for First Time
A lonely lion who was left behind in a cage at a closed Armenian zoo, walked outside and onto the grass for the first time in his 15 years.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe | Quanta Magazine…
Is the #universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape... #cosmology #space #astrophysics
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Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe | Quanta Magazine…
Is the #universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape……for much deliberation
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Remains of Richmond Palace in London, England
This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.#royalty #tudors #henryviii #palaces #section-Atlas
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Fun piece of trivia: The letters that spell typewriter all lie on the top row of the QWERTY keyboard.
Although the origin story may not be true.
"In 1867 a typewriter pioneer first set up the QWERTY arrangement so his salesman could peck out the word typewriter quickly and easily."
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"Apocryphal claims that this change was made to let salesmen impress customers by pecking out the brand name "TYPE WRITER QUOTE" from one keyboard row is not formally substantiated."
#keyboard #typewriter #computers
Qwerty
Today, let's evolve a typewriter keyboard. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.The Engines of Our Ingenuity
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@Stefan Bohacek The layout was designed to slow the typists down so they wouldn't jam up the keys. The Dvorak keyboard allows you to type 3 times faster but it would require retraining millions of people.
Cape Henry Memorial Cross in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.#crosses #memorials #colonialamerica #section-Atlas
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🥘 Bioreactor allows automated long-term culturing of stem cells
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#biology #biotech #stemcells #culture #research
Bioreactor allows automated long-term culturing of stem cells
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are considered a promising tool in medicine, with the potential to unlock treatments for many health conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases and disorders.Marie-Luise Righi (Phys.org)
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😿 This tiny robot cat will blow on your coffee to cool it off
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This tiny robot cat will blow on your coffee to cool it off | TechCrunch
Yukai Engineering’s parade of weird animal robots at CES 2025 continues with Nékojita FuFu. The little cat mounts to the side of a mug or bowl, blowingBrian Heater (TechCrunch)
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🎨 Not all #coffee is created equal! ☕️
We roast specialty-grade coffee that funds underserved youth arts programs.
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Richard Rutt's collection of Victorian #knitting manuals is on @internetarchive . It was originally digitized by Southampton. I bought his book on the history of knitting off of Amazon. It took months of waiting for the price to drop, but it's one of my treasured books. Anyway, the archive: archive.org/details/victoriank…
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Man Attempts to Learn to Play the Bagpipes in an Hour laughingsquid.com/learning-to-…
Man Attempts to Learn to Play the Bagpipes in an Hour
Stuart Smillie of Great Big Story traveled from London to Edinburgh, Scotland to learn how to play the bagpipes in an hour.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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🐾 Dense human populations linked to longer urban coyote lifespans
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Dense human populations linked to longer urban coyote lifespans
Tracking coyote movement in metropolitan areas shows the animals spend lots of time in natural settings, but a new study suggests the human element of city life has a bigger impact than the environment on urban coyote survival.Emily Caldwell (Phys.org)
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Not your average baby shark: An aquarium welcomes a pup from an all-female tank
Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two possible explanations — and hopes to get confirmation in the coming months.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#Environmentalism #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #Donations Help save this critical wildlife corridor
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Help save this critical wildlife corridor
A migration corridor vital for the survival of 19 threatened species – including the Black Panther and Southern Pig-tailed Macaque – is in danger… and the Indigenous community that’s working to protecEkō
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DATE: January 27, 2025 at 11:46PM
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TITLE: Future Library 🌲
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An art installation and future book is growing in a Norwegian forest outside of Oslo!
Read more about the project here and listen to the Ted Radio Hour episode with this project here
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Future Library 🌲 | The Good News Podcast | Episode 1176
An art installation and future book is growing in a Norwegian forest outside of Oslo!Read more about the project here and listen to the Ted Radio Hour episode with this project hereshare.transistor.fm
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#OnThisDay Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L disintegrated after liftoff, killing all seven #Astronauts on board (1986).
Happy Birthday Elijah Wood (1981) - known for portraying #Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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Isn't it frustrating when the screen reader mode a website tells you to use makes the site totally inaccessible? This is exactly why we don't use accessibility overlays.
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@Rich W. Beardsley Yes. I recall reading an article about it some time ago. I think it was on the Access Information site, but I could be wrong. It might have been Top Tech Tidbits. Either way, overlays are a serious problem. What angers me is that not everyone who uses them just wants to get the job done quickly to comply with rules. some people/companies honestly care about their clients/users and are tricked into believing that this is a good solution. This is especially heart-breaking when it's done to truly small companies, because they're essentially paying for rubbish!
I feel like all I've been doing here lately is asking computer questions. I know people here are very helpful but still, it's annoying me! lol
It must be all the computer talk in general is catching, lol.
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💉 Syringe-wielding germs could crack antimicrobial resistance crisis
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Syringe-wielding germs could crack antimicrobial resistance crisis
Friendly germs armed with their own biological syringes and poisons could hold the key to overcoming the antimicrobial resistance crisis, according to a new study by biologists at the Universities of Manchester and Basel.Mike Addelman (Phys.org)
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The Surprising Origins and Alternatives to Tomato Ketchup#fries #food #sauce #favoritethingsnewsletterinternal #section-Articles
The Surprising Origins and Alternatives to Tomato Ketchup
Ketchup is more of a category than a singular sauce.Anne Ewbank (Atlas Obscura)
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‘An unusual find’: 66m-year-old animal vomit discovered in Denmark theguardian.com/science/2025/j… #Fossils #Denmark #Biology #Science
‘An unusual find’: 66m-year-old animal vomit discovered in Denmark
Experts say vomit, probably from a fish, is made up of sea lilies and is an important contribution to reconstructing past ecosystemsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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DeepSeek's R1 LLM: A New Challenger in the AI Landscape with Censorship Concerns
The launch of DeepSeek's R1 LLM has set the AI community abuzz with its impressive benchmarks and open-source capabilities. However, the model's erratic self-identification and potential censorship ra...
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"See-worthy" teableau for 01/27/25
Given the natural state of its world, it's a wonder that any sea turtle ever survived to adulthood. Given the unnatural pressures upon it now, a sea turtle's existence is practically a miracle.
#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #PeppermintTea #SeaTurtles #Ocean #DepressionGlass #FentonGlass #HobnailGlass #VintageChina #Handmade #Quilting #Sewing #Crochet
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