FLECKTARN (June 25, 2024)
a journal of the blindingly realistic
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He suggests that idle time provides people with the chance to reflect on their values, beliefs, commitments to justice, and strategies for enacting change.
https://thewalrus.ca/doing-nothing-has-never-been-more-important/
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He flipped through a copy of Marvel's "Dr. Strange" when, to his surprise, there he was — depicted as an old friend of the doctor himself.
https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/where-tom-wolfe-got-his-status-obsession/
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Oddly enough, reading Dickens was what ignited Dostoyevsky. Odder still, it was reading Sir Walter Scott that ignited Balzac.
http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/03_07/summerreading.html
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He has left home and found, on the East Coast, the perpetual revolt of High Culture against God, Country, and Tradition.
"America's position is unassailable. We are the imperial Rome of the 3rd Millennium."
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/how-tom-wolfe-became-tom-wolfe
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For 2018, households in the top 20% will have income of about $150,000 or more and 52% of total income, about the same as in 2017. But they will pay about 87% of income taxes, up from about 84% last year.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87-of-income-tax-1523007001
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In his essays, he plays the role of educated populist - David to the Goliath of conventional wisdom - with enduring relish.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/20/magazine/tom-wolfe-the-great-gadfly.html
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...he argued for fiction to return to realism from the fabulism of postwar American literature.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/16/where-have-you-gone-tom-wolfe/
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Thackeray and Dickens had lived in the first great era of the metropolis. Now, a century later, in the 1960s, certain powerful forces had converged to create a second one.
https://harpers.org/archive/1989/11/stalking-the-billion-footed-beast/
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Why no one is celebrating the Second American Century.
https://bussorah.tripod.com/wolfe.html
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A convicted child molester has been accused of serving human flesh to his neighbors and telling them it was deer meat.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13566851/Cannibal-served-human-flesh-friends-barbecue-never-guess-called-it.html
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As soon as you accept "equality" as a goal into your society, you are on a path that will not stop until something like forced socialism is achieved.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/plato-on-how-democracy-always-creates-socialism/
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DiversityWatch (June 25, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-25-2024/
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FLECKTARN (June 26, 2024)
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This idea suggests that while as the universe ages and expands, it is becoming more organized and functional, nearly opposite to theories surrounding increasing cosmological disorder.
https://bigthink.com/the-well/the-second-arrow-of-time/
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Melville's novel was a flop, and in its first 40 years sold only 3,700 copies.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/draw-me-ishmael-the-book-arts-of-moby-dick-review-the-big-picture-a93fe384
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Gatsby hit store shelves in 1925, initially as a commercial flop, selling only 20,000 copies in its first printing and less than 3,000 in its second.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/04/why-you-should-re-read-the-great-gatsby.html
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Using a rock formation visible in one of the photos, police were able to locate the camp site in the desert where the murders had occurred. Upon searching the site, police found Campbell's decomposed body behind the rock formation.
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bradford-william.htm
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If there is a ten second countdown to an electric shock, the hazard rate is low. But if the shock could occur at any time in those ten seconds, uncertainty and anxiety increase.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240625210018.htm
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Finland was among the last domains to adopt a farming lifestyle, and is characterized by substructuring in the form of a distinct genetic border dividing the northeastern and southwestern regions of the country.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130331
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Interior security cameras have been collecting facial data and comparing it to images stored from employee badge images.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/26/google-testing-facial-recognition-technology-for-security-near-seattle.html
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He was given a 5–10 year prison sentence in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where prison psychiatrists diagnosed him as a psychopath. He was nevertheless a model prisoner and was granted an early release in 1956.
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/glatman-harvey.htm
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Gen Z can discern between reputable news and AI-generated content, but they do not care. Also, they only read headlines and rush to the comments to know what everyone else says.
https://technology.inquirer.net/135376/gen-z-study-from-google
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DiversityWatch (June 26, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-26-2024/
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For humans, living insecurely means living in illusion.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/slowly-the-west-confronts-the-abyss/
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FLECKTARN (June 27, 2024)
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The Glasgow team's results provide fresh evidence that one of the components of the Antikythera mechanism was most likely used to track the Greek lunar year.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-gravitational-antikythera-mechanism-mystery.html
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Sedentary coffee drinkers are 1.58 times less likely to die of all causes as many as 13 years later.
https://www.sciencealert.com/drinking-coffee-may-lower-risk-of-death-from-too-much-sitting
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You've heard of The Jewish Question, but have you heard of The Fenian Question and The Italian Question?
https://gab.com/groups/33221
https://gab.com/groups/84759
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More than one-fifth of Russian households do not have access to indoor plumbing.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/indoor-plumbing-still-a-pipe-dream-for-20-of-russian-households-reports-say-a65049
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DiversityWatch (June 27, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-27-2024/
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We find that Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020, the anthropogenic mass, which has recently
doubled roughly every 20 years, will surpass all global living biomass.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5
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One reason the Left has appealed for years to intellectuals and wealthy people is that these are more aware than normal people of the burgeoning crisis.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/where-the-aspen-proposal-goes-wrong/
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FLECKTARN (July 1, 2024)
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Probably as a result of controversy between Jews and Jewish Christians, the Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome in 49-50 A.D.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/first-martyrs-of-the-church-of-rome/
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"Everyone is treated the same, or equality demands that people be treated differently in order to produce the equality."
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/06/admissions-granted-harvard-supreme-court-affirmative-action/
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Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey's findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/diversity-was-supposed-to-make-us-rich-not-so-much-39da6a23
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He blamed a Jewish judge and Jewish jurors for his conviction, saying that they sought retribution against him after he had agreed to meet with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/marcus-garvey
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Three in 10 Americans say they attend religious services every week (21%) or almost every week (9%), while 11% report attending about once a month and 56% seldom (25%) or never (31%) attend.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642548/church-attendance-declined-religious-groups.aspx
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A central problem with both the "psychopathic" and the "psychotic" analysis of Hitlerism is that their approach to intellectual history is far too individualistic.
https://archive.org/details/BirkenHitlerAsPhilosophe/page/n13/mode/2up
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With her husband's lifeless body in the garage, Seaman left for work at Longacre Elementary, but came back during lunch.
https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/seaman-nancy.htm
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How paid informants infiltrated the Aryan Nations through Atomwaffen at the behest of FBI director Robert Mueller.
https://headlineusa.com/exclusive-the-hidden-history-of-muellers-terror-factory/
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At the core of nihilism is a distrust of human perception for its inherent bias toward rationalization.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/ultra-nihil/
https://www.amerika.org/texts/nihilism/
https://www.amerika.org/politics/ultright/
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PACR is understood as a specific type of controlling parenting behaviour where parental appreciation is dependent on the child meeting the parent's expectations in the academic domain.
https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01380-3
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DiversityWatch (July 1, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-1-2024/
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If the other guy does not believe in the equals sign, we go to war with him.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/age-of-symbolism/
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FLECKTARN (July 10, 2024)
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Perhaps the real reason is that it's not just about the numbers, it's about how local people feel about tourism.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240701-what-does-a-world-without-airbnb-look-like
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"This thing came over the horizon and stopped dead in the middle of the sky. Then it went from a standstill to top speed, immediately."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/lemmy-kilmisters-wildest-escapades-15-insane-tales-from-a-legendary-life-36761/alien-encounter-159102/
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A search engine for vintage computers.
http://frogfind.com/
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Web3 is going just great...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
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If I were sitting in a tube train and all the people opposite me were reading Mein Kampf with obvious enjoyment and approval it probably wouldn't disturb me much more than if they were reading Heinlein, Tolkein or Richard Adams.
https://libcom.org/article/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock
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I beat some top players I really admired -- by aiming right at their strengths.
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/06/2024-commencement-address-roger-federer
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"Adulterate" is from Latin adulterare (to corrupt) while "adult" is from Latin adolescere (to grow up). "Adulterate" and "adultery" are related, though. When you engage in either, you introduce something/someone "other" to the picture.
https://wordsmith.org/words/adulterate.html
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Chrono Divide recreates the original "Red Alert 2" in your web browser.
https://chronodivide.com/
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His father was a minister in the Royal Air Force and his mother a librarian.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/arts/music/lemmy-singer-and-bassist-for-motorhead-dies-at-70.html
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In 1972 the government launched a programme that required medical graduates to spend the first three years of their careers in villages.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/07/04/why-is-thai-health-care-so-good
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You are not creative and then create something; you become creative by working on something. Creativity is a byproduct of work.
https://robinrendle.com/notes/creativity-is-the-byproduct-of-work/
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Anna's Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related sources.
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-faces-millions-in-damages-and-a-permanent-injunction-240708/
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DiversityWatch (July 10, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-july-10-2024/
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Over time, all human groups invert.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/be-a-better-human/
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The official narrative about Hurricane Beryl is wrong, as usual.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/beryl/
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FLECKTARN (July 16, 2024)
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"If you or I drove across the United States, we'd be fairly easy to follow. We use credit cards and telephones. But this guy takes trains, uses no credit cards, doesn't use checks. It's kind of like chasing a ghost."
https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/predators/tommy_sells/3.html
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"We're carrying on," said historical society president Richard Dillman, 80, who learned Morse code as a boy. "Morse code is not dead."
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/11/nations-last-morse-code-station-comes-back-to-life-on-annual-night-of-nights-in-point-reyes/
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This article shows how the World Economic Forum is transforming the acerbic language of Greta Thunberg into the basis for what is called the Great Reset, a set of policies that will enable the state and select businesses and NGOs to monitor and track the population and eliminate dissent.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajes.12457
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Henry Sweet's A Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon (1896)
https://mikepope.com/sweet/sweet-dictionary-about.html
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Now, ladies, it is paramount to treat your husband's penis with affection, tenderness and respect.
http://www.prettyladylee.com/2006/07/how-to-give-good-christian-blowjob.html
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My dad was a jazz trumpeter playing with people like Glenn Miller but the war broke out and he ended up [becoming a founding member of the CIA].
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/11/stewart-copeland-the-polices-recording-sessions-were-very-dark-we-beat-the-crap-out-of-each-other
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Riffing off the melody of guitars, he expands the space of sound with dynamic contrast.
https://www.deathmetal.org/news/k-k-null-joel-gilardini-psychic-drones-3-2024/
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Very simple forms of matter could create detectable gravitational wave backgrounds soon after the Big Bang.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-qa-discusses-gravitational-hint-dark.html
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Our study replicates prior GWAS findings associated with testing positive for COVID-19 among mostly White samples and extends findings at three loci to Black and Hispanic individuals
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35222515/
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In the rush to prove bias in a scientist who erroneously used skull-size measurements to demonstrate racial differences, the great historian Stephen Jay Gould may have succumbed to bias himself.
https://www.wired.com/2011/06/gould-morton-revisited/
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"New York City, where I live, has more than 8 million residents, and apparently I did not know even one who'd be willing to grab a beer with me on a Tuesday night."
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a61536364/one-friend-in-one-month/
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He wants to disengage from everything but his own convenience, and to stop thinking so hard.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/how-people-made-themselves-stupid/
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The only actual way out of the totalitarian cycle is realism.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/leap-into-life-25-everyone-wants-totalitarianism/
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DiversityWatch (July 16, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-july-16-2024/
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All of these handy arguments for Texas boil down to a single quest: raise costs.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/why-houston-is-still-without-power/
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FLECKTARN (July 26, 2024)
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Perhaps the most disturbing feature of the murder was the attempt by the two girls to represent their actions as a crusading challenge to the conventional in human behaviour and relationships.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/trials-notable/page-17
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Retrocomputing from your armchair or bus seat.
https://telehack.com/
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There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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As the Age Of Symbolism ends, democracy has revealed that its failure comes from within.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/why-democracy-is-doomed/
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How good are you at hopping on trends?
https://www.techbropuritytest.com/
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The demise of the open web was not a sudden event, this slow and steady decline was orchestrated by those who valued personal agendas and status over collective progress.
https://hamishcampbell.com/a-tech-story/
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Beheaded Art is a gallery of public beheading pictures/pics and art drawings of capital punishment by decapitation.
https://beheadedart.com/
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Windows 98 disk defragmenter emulator.
https://defrag98.com/
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DiversityWatch (July 26, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-july-26-2024/
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Don't trust QueMala Harris, since she is the monkey side of humanity incarnate.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/we-are-not-going-back/
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FLECKTARN (July 29, 2024)
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The 20% of households with $150,000 or more in income make up 52% of total income nationally but pay 87% of total taxes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87-of-income-tax-1523007001
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In June 2020, in the biggest research scandal of the pandemic so far, two of the most important medical journals each retracted a high-profile study of COVID-19 patients.
https://www.science.org/content/article/many-scientists-citing-two-scandalous-covid-19-papers-ignore-their-retractions
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Did a hippo's feet leave the ground with all four feet or not?
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-hippos-dont-fly-massive-animals.html
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I had no idea what lack of sleep was actually costing me.
https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_formula.htm
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As an industry, we've spent all our time making the hard things possible, and none of our time making the easy things easy.
https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet
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Droning atmospheric space music and ambient textures with minimal beats.
https://somafm.com/dronezone/
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The addition of AI is seen as a way to make communication faster and easier by taking in the relevant context, like what was last said in a conversation, and anticipating answers a person might want to respond with, providing them with a menu of possible options.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/07/28/1847232/chatgpt-has-been-integrated-into-a-brain-implant
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At that point, with a slight shake of his head and his right hand pressed against the left side of his chest, Trump said, "I'm not Christian."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/trump-speech-no-need-to-vote-future
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Bands like Can, Neu, Harmonia, Amon Düül, Faust and of course Kraftwerk coalesced around a common desire to take rock music beyond the blues into a realm of pure improvisation and experimentation.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/nightair/krautrock/4257548
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Trump believes he is saving democracy by restoring its legitimacy and saving it from the political machines.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/unpacking-trumps-comments-on-voting/
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Today's real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
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The placebo effect involves the release of feel-good neurotransmitters, plus increased activity in parts of the brain related to mood and emotions.
https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/whos-afraid-placebo-effect-medicine
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DiversityWatch (July 29, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-july-29-2024/
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On the Right we have an audience that specializes in blowing off steam on social media.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/steamblower/
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FLECKTARN (July 31, 2024)
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Remembering BBS life at 2400bps
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-bbs-life-at-2400bps/
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G-files were the library of early hackers.
http://textfiles.com/
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What were BBSes, and why do people miss them?
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
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Intuitions we have about the way the world works rarely conflict with our everyday experience.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments-test-hidden-assumptions-about-reality-20240730/
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Social death follows when being labeled a "bad" activist or simply "problematic" enough times.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211205134759/http://www.catalystwedco.com/culture/excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice
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The kafkatrap is a form of argument that is so fallacious and manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based entirely on the form of the argument.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122
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But has it devolved into simply shutting down all dissenting ideas?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/10/13/why-ive-started-to-fear-my-fellow-social-justice-activists
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DiversityWatch (July 31, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-july-31-2024/
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Diversity erases what was there, and replaces it with a hybrid.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/osorod/
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FLECKTARN (August 5, 2024)
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_The Economist_ tracks the economy through the cost of a McDonald's "Big Mac" worldwide.
https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
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Along the way, the FBI and the Austrian would seed faulty tech to Moscow and its allies; drain the Soviet Bloc's coffers; expose its intelligence officers and secret American conspirators; and reveal to American counterspies exactly what tech the Soviets were after.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/04/us-spies-soviet-technology-00164126
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A 1970s smart watch.
https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp01.htm
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Archaeologists found evidence of hydraulics in Egyptian pyramids.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a61701051/hydraulics-evidence-ancient-pyramids/
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He was an irreligious Jew, but he remained faithful to the materialism of his tradition, insisting that he craved "eternal life here rather than somewhere else."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/02/book-against-death-elias-canetti-review/
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How manuevering in the chip market limited the speed of a chip, and why it was less important than people thought.
https://www.userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-myth
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DiversityWatch (August 5, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-august-5-2024/
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How a Black lawsuit changed indentured servitude into chattel slavery
https://www.amerika.org/politics/how-african-americans-created-slavery/
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FLECKTARN (August 19, 2024)
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In the earth beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a volume nearly twice that of all the world's oceans.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/underground-cells-make-dark-oxygen-without-light-20230717/
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The Sun is going through a period of high activity, but it is nothing compared to an enormous solar event that slammed into our planet 14,000 years ago.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240815-miyake-events-the-giant-solar-superstorms-that-could-rock-earth
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Postmodern woke poetry generator.
https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/hbzpoetry/
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The next statue on Tenth Avenue will be a 16ft a hyper-realist aluminum sculpture of a pigeon.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/style/giant-pigeon-nyc-high-line-tan/index.html
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"Remember DOS? I use WordStar 4.0 as my word-processing system."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806
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Run useful Perl code from useless Python code.
https://pypi.org/project/perl/
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A manifesto for sensible software development.
https://codingitwrong.com/manifesto
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DiversityWatch (August 19, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-august-19-2024/
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The more we succeed, the more we self-destruct.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/sugar-mice/
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FLECKTARN (August 25, 2024)
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"I felt something biting my balls. It was very painful, so I put my hands in the toilet to see what was wrong. I was shocked that I grabbed a snake," the Thai man said.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/world-news/12-foot-python-bites-man-in-testicles-as-he-sat-on-toilet-then-he-beat-it-to-death-with-a-brush/
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Clew is a search engine focused on content from independent creators.
https://clew.se/
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A would-be burglar in Rome was caught after stopping to read a book on Greek mythology in the middle of a robbery, Italian media report.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4kpv3p4zo
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Open-source clones of classic video games.
https://osgameclones.com/
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A small, white box with horizontal slats is a familiar sight at weather stations around the UK, and around the world.
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-victorian-technology-weather-remarkably-accurate.html
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A map of 32,960 memorial benches - added by people like you
https://openbenches.org/
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Everything comes down to asking the right questions and keeping an open mind, and resisting the terrible inclination that scientists have, because they're human beings, of finding what you expect to find. We've all been told that badgers are how the pathogen is spread, so we look for that pattern. And sadly, I think that's why the myth has perpetuated.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02729-3
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Spotted a cool looking bug this summer? Get it identified using these tools.
https://www.insectidentification.org/bugfinder-start.php
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/
https://insectasylum.com/
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Interactive generative art.
http://weavesilk.com/
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DiversityWatch (August 25, 2024): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-august-25-2024/
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Make real-time code changes and see the assembly output change.
https://godbolt.org/
Archive of classic audiotape cover art.
http://www.tapedeck.org/
Find out who is funding political organizations.
https://projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/
FLECKTARN (September 18, 2024)
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Get a full remote Linux server with a problem and fix it.
https://sadservers.com/
A new take on the political compass.
https://cunt-anon.github.io/legit-political-compass/
Adult coconut crabs are about 1 metre (40 inches) from leg tip to leg tip and weigh about 4.5 kg (10 pounds).
https://www.britannica.com/animal/robber-crab
Racial distribution by zip code.
https://bestneighborhood.org/racial-distribution-by-city/
Rapid urbanization has led to architecture that makes us stressed.
https://psyche.co/ideas/how-the-buildings-you-occupy-might-be-affecting-your-brain
Human inability to see or notice plants in one's everyday life is a phenomenon known as plant blindness.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.963448/full
"Negative frequency then means negative absorption, and this means amplification."
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-scientists-amplification-theory.html
Employers used to build top-notch housing for workers.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/07/the-model-villages-of-britain.html
Author dreams up imaginary culture and creates music for them.
https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh
Talk about a dream address!
https://metro.co.uk/2015/03/10/people-living-on-butthole-lane-say-they-would-never-change-their-street-name-5096585/
You could also live in one of these places with nifty names.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58229967
Cross-platform DAW and sound editor.
https://ardour.org/
PDP-11 emulator
https://www.pcjs.org/machines/dec/pdp11/1170/panel/debugger/rsts/
The author presents an overview of recent clinical/theoretical work on the construction of otherness in structured forms of hatred.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19685815/
Complete list of our articles
https://www.amerika.org/site-map/
Countries without extradition treaties with the USA.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel-guide/g37942416/countries-without-extradition-treaties-united-states-succession/
Humans and doges synchronize brains.
https://neurosciencenews.com/human-dog-brain-sync-bonding-27645/
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FLECKTARN (November 1, 2024)
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Hospitals make you sicker than having a doctor on Zoom.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309077
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_Holy_Family.pdf
Trees, rather than roof treatments, provided the best relief from the heat in the most vulnerable areas.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-trees-cool-roofs-vulnerable-houston.html
"Orders coming in from dealers were overwhelmingly for a four-wheel drive Scout with the full top."
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a62770351/international-scout-the-first-real-suv/
Cross-platform (Windows, Lunix, Mac) digital audio workstation.
https://ardour.org/
There are three books of Enoch, their contents discussing demons, giants, angels, and why the flood was morally necessary.
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/The-book-of-Enoch.pdf
The more we succeed, the less we need the world, and we ignore its invisible underlying order which predicts things like future outcomes.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/people-get-bitter-as-they-age/
If social media was as prevalent as today, I don't think I'd have anywhere near as many positive childhood memories.
https://www.makeuseof.com/glad-avoided-social-media-growing-up/
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well.
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/
When seeing the letters composing a word, the letters trigger activity in word nodes containing such letters in natural language.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763424003464
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FLECKTARN (November 15, 2024)
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The soft drink Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola, an American company, inside of Nazi Germany during World War II.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany
Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/science/voyager-1-transmitter-issue/index.html
O makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/rough-men-stand-ready/
Japan just launched a satellite made of wood.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/05/japan/japan-wooden-satellite/
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"Smart and SeXY" describes the differences in intelligence between the sexes. Progressivism prevents candid discussion of these truths and most academics avoid the topic because it would not help their careers. Here you get the raw research in a free e-book.
https://atavisionary.com/free-book-smart-and-sexy-the-evolutionary-origins-and-biological-underpinnings-of-cognitive-differences-between-the-sexes/
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Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!
https://coolguy.website/basic-html-competency-is-the-new-punk-folk-explosion/
Home remedies for abortion.
https://www.healthline.com/health/abortion-home-remedy
Database of computer file formats.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/BasicSearch/proBasicSearch.aspx?status=new
Carl Jung's "Seven Sermons to the Dead."
http://gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm
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For ROM hackers
new patch submissions
* romhackplaza.org
* romhackheaven.com
* retrohackers.net
old database mirrors
* romhack.ing
* neoromhacking.net
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3D printed guns
https://defcad.com/
https://ctrlpew.com/
https://3dgunbuilder.com/
https://www.defdist.org/
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Divers retrieve 140-year-old seeds to restore heritage rye.
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/how-msu-is-bringing-shipwrecked-seeds-back-to-life
Culling in the burbs is a little tricky, but can be done with minimal fuss.
https://www.o9a.org/2024/11/five-easy-methods-for-culling-on-a-suburban-budget/
Leftists are passive-aggressive bullies because of their need for illusory control.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/bluff/
You can listen to police scanners, etc at this website (click on your state and county etc)
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/
Keep an eye on hurricanes in formation before they flood your area.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Alex Jones has moved on from Infowars to a new paranoid channel.
https://alexjones.network/
The roots of heavy metal in literature fascinated by the occult.
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/occult-roots-of-literature-in-metal/
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FLECKTARN (February 7, 2025)
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Sheds: reinventing community through activity.
https://mensshed.org/about-mens-sheds/
Find European alternatives to internationalist products
https://european-alternatives.eu/
Captcha that requires you to kill three bad guys in Doom.
https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/
Apps from the 1960s onward
https://archiveapp.org/
The 1985 version of Mapquest.
https://maphappenings.com/2024/04/11/story-of-etak/
Open science publishing.
https://hal.science/
Making C code memory safe.
https://libcxx.llvm.org/Hardening.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/trapc_memory_safe_fork/
https://devclass.com/2024/11/12/iso-c-chair-herb-sutter-leaves-microsoft-declares-forthcoming-c-26-most-impactful-release-since-c11/
Virtual Lunix
https://webvm.io/
Portable "Red Alert 2."
https://archive.org/details/red-alert-2_202103
At least one seventh of published science is outright fake.
https://osf.io/5rf2m/
Open source Soulseek client.
https://nicotine-plus.org/
Planetary atlasses.
https://www.redmapper.com/
Hell is nothing new; it's a hole with a long history.
https://dantecomedy.com/welcome/inferno/introduction-to-the-inferno/
Find ley lines in your area.
https://maps.leylines.net/
Early internet forerunner.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of/
The location at 4000 Polk Street near East Downtown is somewhat less affectionately nicknamed "Combat Kroger."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/kroger-whitmire-crime-houston-19628364.php
Houston renovated its 1899 fire station into a museum of fire-fighting.
https://www.houstonfiremuseum.org/
Designs on a new Orania in the Arkansas region
https://ozarkia.whiteunityproject.org/
All modern coding is this
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/waldo-rmi.pdf
See the carnage in real time
https://www.usaspending.gov/
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FLECKTARN (March 2, 2025)
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Thunderstorms rupture pollen and cause asthma events as a result.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39391232/
Watch people spam Wikipedia in real time.
http://listen.hatnote.com/
The university says this centuries-old lingerie is similar to a 1950s-era modern longline bra.
https://www.theregister.com/2012/07/20/german_discovery/
History of perfume.
https://fragranceconservatory.com/history-of-fragrance
Run and trace 64-bit assembly.
https://x64.halb.it/
Store, retrieve, and locate data based on the fingerprint of its actual content rather than its name or location.
https://ipfs.tech/
Produce music in your browser.
https://opendaw.studio/
Scented candle wax produces as many nanoparticles as gasoline engines.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00986
For the first time in nearly 50 years, a brand new genus and species of plant has been discovered in a U.S. national park.
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/new-flower-texas-20180155.php
"We don't think of ourselves as homeowners," Saint Arnold Brewery founder Brock Wagner told the magazine. "We consider ourselves stewards, taking care of the house for the next generation."
https://www.chron.com/homes/article/historic-estate-houston-texas-courtlandt-20168336.php
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Our world remains forever caught between symbolism (neoplatonism) and holism (Platonism).
https://www.amerika.org/politics/mind-body-dualism-and-metaphysical-dualism/
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"Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-update-breaks-file-explorer-among-other-glitches/
Entropy production is strongly observer dependent and deeply connects the arrow of time with the causal structure of the spacetime.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.050406
Genetically modified microorganisms (GMM) are frequently employed for the production of microbial fermentation products such as food enzymes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566224000431
Later, or "classic", Neanderthals had lower diversity in their inner ear bones than pre-Neanderthals and early Neanderthals.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/neanderthal-genetic-bottleneck-inner-ear/
"I have more Mastodon followers than on any other social media service. I don't feel any particular need to scold and/or ethically purify the weird polyglot polyethic mass of them."
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114044027501424137
Shopping in bulk at Costco has this uncanny way of making us feel happy, often to the benefit of our future selves.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a63828842/what-is-costco-therapy/
Although intelligence was rated by both women and their parents as significantly more important than physical attractiveness for a long-term mate for daughters, both daughters (72.64%) and their parents (59.56%) chose the more attractive man as the best long-term partner for daughters, regardless of his purported intelligence level.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-024-00418-y
With just five years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss, research suggests.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-years-world-vital-halt-biodiversity.html
"The swastika just symbolizes radicalness -- total surfing," explains Hugh Berenger, 19, a skilled EI Porto surfer who says that he and a group of about six friends secretly painted swastikas around the area last summer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/03/18/surf-nazis-hoarding-the-perfect-waves/545917f5-4ee4-48ca-b766-4cc8097f8bff/
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John Michael Greer focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.
https://www.ecosophia.net/
The types of people you encountered on USENET and still see on social media.
https://politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/
Paternalism & Corporatism: The non-democratic state: Platonism, Fascism, Theocracy, Monarchy etc.
https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22