Month: July 2019
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28 Miles of Frida Kahlo
Apparently it is now a thing to run in the shape of things, so people in trackign apps/on sites like strava can see the image: Like “Strava Artist” Lenny Maughan does here.
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Simpsons – Russian Art Film Version
Lazy Square re-interpreted the famous Simpsons intro as a Russian style art film. Awesome watch:
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Ioannis Varoufakis Article on the recent Greek election
Interesting article in the New Statesman on the recent Greek election and the Tsipras term in general. Obviously, he is party to the whole mess by being Tsipras’ first Finance Minister and having lead the talks with the “Troika” in 2015 and being just recently re-elected into the Greek parliament as part of the Greek…
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Stern Gärtner
With a stern look Mr. Gärtner prepares for the Christopher Street day Parade that will go round, right round, around him in a few hours.
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Chinese/Korean printers Invented Movable Type Centuries Before Gutenberg?
M. Sophia Neumann writes on lithub about the fact that in Korea, a scholar and civil minister named Choe Yun-Ui was using movable type to print books around the year 1234. However, due to Korea being under siege, the technology and knowledge of the technology never really made it out of the country. “The innovation…
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Are we being exposed to unhealthy levels of radiation from our phones
Kurzgesagt did a nice video on the topic: <br /> Almost more valuable than the video is the amount of research that was gathered and made available here . If you are ever looking for information to enlighten people about this, this here is pure gold. Also some nice arguments should you ever encounter one…
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Neurons gotta Network
via dark roasted blend a video of neurons seeking to build connections. <br />
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The Mountweazel – A Proud Animal
Today I learned (TIL as the cool kids would say?): Dictionary people are really scared that some other guys will steal all their beautiful work and put fake words in there, that they come up with. Those fictitious entries are called trap words or also mountweazels. Now this seems fairly weird for a book that…
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Putting the i in iomega
USB-support for iOS devices. So many options. SO much fun. So many adapters. Probably a doge joke in there, somewhere. <br />