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I agree. I also get much more out of playing Bach than listening to him. I almost never listen to Bach for pleasure, but I know a few fugues and the like. Playing them makes you fe…

Left unaddressed is whether polar bears can ever make it back to Greenland once winding up in Iceland. I'm guessing the answer is only very rarely , based on the rest of the articl…

Josh Hartnett's suave insouciance in Lucky Number Slevin (2006) is accounted for by him "having ataraxia." [1] That is, as if it were a medical condition. I'm sure it was intended …

Your comment just made me realize something. The 5 milliseconds which Lyles won by is shorter than the time it takes sound to travel between his lane and Thompson's. If the startin…

This is an accurate and well-written portrait of Pitchfork bookended by musings on the current state of music criticism as a business.

I did some reading into rongorongo a few years ago and I came away with two conclusions: 1. It is very likely the scripts developed after contact with Europeans. That is, the islan…

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If you're thinking "The highest rate I need my signal to be able to replicate is X, so I should set my sampling rate to 2X," then you're wrong and this article gives several reason…

Indeed. And they've applied the translator even to the comments, without making it clear, which seems ethically dubious to me.

There really is one for everything: https://xkcd.com/2758/

Why do people not run uBlock Origin? What's the case against?

The movie Machete was made after the trailer. The trailer was sandwiched, with other fake ones, in between the two parts of the Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse . I …

In the 1690's the Scottish invested an enormous sum of money and human capital to settle this region. The goal was to build and profit from an overland route to ferry cargo from th…

Meteor in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNEOS_2014-01-08

From the conclusion of the study the article cites: > In this survey study, all types of objectively measured VI were associated with a higher dementia prevalence. As most VI is pr…

I have to say I mostly agree and I'm very surprised at how few negative comments there are in this thread. It's good the community is supportive but with the current state of AI th…

+1 to this. Some other (sinensis) teas do give me headaches as well, but matcha quite consistently does even when most brewed green teas don't. Strange.

This is cool. My first thought is the choice of dialect rather than accent . I'm from NC and the Lumbee Indians had a way of speaking that was unique and endearing. It feels like m…

> 1% each year I think you mean 1% each life

Murray says it's hard to see how Prigozhin and Putin both come out of this alive. He also says he expects it to be over in two weeks. So ... what? ... Surely it's very unlikely tha…

It removes flouride as well, for better or worse -- one of very few available filters which do. (Some think flouride is good and some think it's bad.) I have it, and purely ergonom…