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I've read that too. Yet, I've also read stuff like [0]. The truth is probably somewhere it between [0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01902-0

There's most likely multiple aspects at play: high-chroma pigments were historically limited and/or expensive; varnish yellowed over time; pigments faded. The digitization process …

> The discovery of older humans does not respond to the point you’re arguing against — in evolutionary time scales, humans are recent. I meant, evolutionary time scales themselves …

Happened to me in the 90s (France). Seems to still be practiced regularly [0]. A 2022 article [1] quotes an ENT advocating it for kids with frequent (3 to 4) bacterial throat infec…

> human body [...] has only been around for a vanishingly short period of time in evolutionary terms. "as far as we know." Every few years, I see in the headlines stuff like "oldes…

Some data points: I bought a Decathlon folding bike (Fold 500; new, ~450€) a few months ago. Using it many times a week (probably more than it's intended). No issues so far. Intern…

> f. Nipples are useless in human males (cf. Ch. 5). When I was a kid, I got my tonsils removed "because they were useless and a source of illness". I've recently heard that tonsil…

For those looking − as the GP said, it's not fantastically organized − pigments information is available here: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/waterfs.html . Top links yield acces…

Rudeness, plays against yourself. I directly know people who lived in China, have been jailed and beaten there, and have literal scars to prove it. Hard to brush this away easily f…

> The only difference between a cult and a religion is popular acceptance. That's typically caricature. I encourage you to study things more thoroughly before allowing yourself to …

> You analysis is valid, but inconclusive. Yup, it's a bit quick, I'll give you that. The numbers in 2025 were higher than in 2024, and in 2023, which could indicate that "it's not…

> Less corruption there's been, in 2025, 983 000 people receiving disciplinary sanctions[0]. then: 1. either there's no corruption, and people are getting sanctioned for no reason …

depends where; in France you can get unlimited SMS/MMS/calls, plus 350Go of data, for 20€/month [0]. it's surprising the market hasn't developed likewise in other (European) countr…

> It subtly hints at the limitations of language in capturing true understanding and that's still one interpretation ^_^ > Almost every other ancient text starts of being full of c…

> but the opening bit has always seemed straightforward to me the a/symmetry of the opening bits in Chinese, visually echoes a taiji: > 道可道， > 非恆道； > 名可名， > 非恆名。 given the diversit…

They are indeed. Have a look here [0] for ≤18 works [0]: https://www.artrenewal.org/14thARCSalon/Category/DaVinciInit...

Agreeing with the main point; on a tangential note: > At eleven years old: https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-3939.php This one is a copy (Bargue plate − a famous set of plate…

> I decided to use the slowest language on the planet, Python (thanks to the visionary genius of Ross van der Gussom). given the article, it's fair to assume the author was joking …

A few years ago, a journalist went to Duralex, after they restructured (to be own by the employees), and show off the glasses's solidity, live. Every single one of them broke: http…

In addition to people believing weird things, such views are often highly tied to an environment. Levitation is pure non-sense for people "in-doctrinated" (literally: ~ to have a d…

haven't bothered reading it all, but it's just plain awful… such coldness is highly disturbing

"It's complicated" I guess. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde_diplomatique offers a few first insights. Note how the page quickly emphasizes the redaction's independence. Yet,…

I think I must agree: while I went through [0] to build a λ-calculus interpreter, I already had a fair amount of practice with Church encoding (list, bool, int) using an arbitrary …

In case the other answers aren't sufficient, the first step is to understand the λ-calculus[0]. Then, De Bruijn indices[1]. Now, observe that the language we have only has (you nee…

Enjoyable news format; the drawings are a bit crude, not that much considering we're talking about Picasso, but it's more pleasant to read, on a screen, than pure text.