November 30th, 2017 7:32am
posts from 2017 / 11
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November 29th, 2017 9:13pm
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Your Coffee Can Now Help Power Buses
Which is heavier: London’s annual coffee waste production or 15,000 London buses? You guessed it - it’s the coffee waste.
November 29th, 2017 7:54am
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Why do I always get a warped one!?
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Jill
why did jill move her but
because jacks foot was right next to it
November 25th, 2017 9:10am
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November 25th, 2017 9:09am
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Archaeologists have known that cats and humans have had a relationship that goes back a long ways – eight to ten thousand years, to give numbers. That’s about when agriculture first appeared in the Fertile Crescent. However, actually domestication of cats took longer. And that’s just what the cats wanted.
A new study by the University of Leuven and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences used DNA to look closely at cat domestication. They found that full domestication was slow. DNA samples from 200 cats dating across the past 9,000 years revealed modern domestic cats come from two lineages of Felis silvestris lybica, a subspecies of wildcat. The first lineage was an Asian population, which likely were mousers for Fertile Crescent granaries. These cats traveled with humans into Europe as early as 4,400 BCE.
The second feline lineage was traced back to ancient Egypt. The cat-worshippers. This lineage came to Europe around 1,500 BCE. When the Asian and the African lineages met, they began to mix, and develop into the domestic cat we would recognize today.
November 25th, 2017 9:08am
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A future in which ISPs are owned by local governments, small businesses, nonprofit community groups, and the people they serve are the path forward and the only realistic way of ending big telecom’s stranglehold on America.
— https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
(via no-thanks)November 24th, 2017 7:33pm
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November 23rd, 2017 8:31am
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Sunset from a foggy Sutro Baths.
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November 22nd, 2017 8:21pm
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November 22nd, 2017 8:59am
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November 21st, 2017 4:47pm
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November 20th, 2017 8:21pm
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I just found three candy pumpkins in my 2lb bag of candy corn, what is going on!?!?
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November 20th, 2017 6:45am
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November 19th, 2017 8:42am
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November 19th, 2017 8:42am
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Paul Lehr’s epic cover art for Douglas R. Mason’s “Matrix” combines a few of my favorite things: pink sci-fi and domed cities.
November 17th, 2017 7:40am
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November 16th, 2017 6:18pm
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Entrepreneurship, inequity, and throwing darts at the carnival
In a reply to an article called Entrepreneurs Aren’t A Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids, Hacker News commenter notacoward wrote:
Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.
Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.
Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it.
That’s a pretty succinct summary of the “born on third base and thinks they hit a triple” effect…and it doesn’t just apply to entrepreneurship or being rich.
November 14th, 2017 7:44pm
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Tonight’s Gender of the Night is: BORN TO DIE WORLD IS A FUCK Kill Em All 1989 I am trash man 410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS
November 13th, 2017 3:25pm
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November 11th, 2017 7:41am
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feeling blessed the city sends these nice fellas out to make sure the pipes they buried in the grpind are still in the ground every other saturday morning 😇
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November 10th, 2017 6:23pm
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November 10th, 2017 6:20pm
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November 10th, 2017 6:19pm
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November 7th, 2017 9:20pm
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November 7th, 2017 9:18pm
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HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? Just released, pick up this Lapel Pin, that is very obviously of a high schooler, right now at PattiLapel.com while they’re still available!
November 7th, 2017 9:16pm
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In case you’ve ever wondered what a sailor’s tattoos mean.
(art and research by @lubellwoo)November 4th, 2017 10:25am
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November 4th, 2017 10:24am
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November 4th, 2017 10:16am
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November 1st, 2017 9:45pm
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November 1st, 2017 9:44pm
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November 1st, 2017 9:43pm
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November 1st, 2017 9:34pm
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Ray Bradbury seated in the Time Machine prop from George Pal’s film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name. c. 1960.
October 31st, 2017 9:12pm
