Friday, 3 May 2024
quote [ Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-inspired fictions — by R. D. Blackmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Kingsley — and finds literature layered with scientific, religious, and political interventions, spurred by the discovery of prehistoric life. ]
All these dino bones
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quote [ Kuchen—A Love Story / Cool Jazz and Monochromes: The Paintings of Jamie Te Heuheu / Poetry / Reviews ]
Nice writer's mag from New Zealand you can read online, found via the grumpy story Heat Death of the Internet by Gregory Bennett
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
quote [ She promised investors an easy windfall. Then it all came crashing down. ]
a whole lotta plays out the Airbnb
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Wednesday, 1 May 2024
quote [ In solidarity for Wisconsin !
Lyrics : Our father was a union man some day i'll be one too. The bosses fired daddy what's our family gonna do? Come all you good workers, Good news to you I'll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell. CHORUS: Which side are you on? Which side are you on? (x2) ] Happy May Day!
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quote [ Some say the true death worm has already been found—slithering beneath the sands of the Gobi. ]
This funky little worm will be the death of me
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024
quote [ With the astronomical growth in US national park visitation in the last few years, the National Park of American Samoa is a literal breath of fresh air. ]
Lying awake in the National Park
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Monday, 29 April 2024
quote [ Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today ]
Through the shake of an earthquake
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Sunday, 28 April 2024
quote [ Donate to David's Legal Fund: https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em ]
Best friend shower time is a rare treat.
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quote [ In an interview on the Verge’s “Decoder” podcast published Monday, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston mounted a zealous argument for the importance of AI while defending his company’s 500-worker layoff in April 2023. The two things are linked, he said, noting that Dropbox’s layoff was largely aimed at freeing up cash to hire more engineers who are skilled in AI. ]
Ah well, at least they explain their reasoning.
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quote [ If there is anything that can make a strident music fan salivate in anticipation, it’s the idea of an unreleased track or lost album from a favourite band. It’s like catnip for the musicologist and can become like a biblical quest for a lost chalice of sound for the collector of rare grooves and scrapped singles. ]
We're lost in music
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