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Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give…

I recall being told the IKEA catalogue is the only publication ever to surpass the Bible in terms of annual print run (200 million at its peak)

Argos is great, but doesn't have a patch on the old SkyMall catalogues you'd find in US carriers up to around 2010

Related to current Starlink outage? probably not, but interesting coincidence

There used to be one of these in Dubai too, but it closed down during the pandemic. I remember a very surreal dinner there in circa 2016.

Ironic that for all the elite lineage captured here, the one that he ended up stuck with is a very plebeian surname of non-hispanic (Ligurian) origin.

I don't read this as a problem of fraud within Oxfam. They audited the World Bank and found there was fraud in the bank. Or am I missing something?

I once coded a machine that could make photo-books of your neighbour's living rooms. It was inspired by Ed Ruscha's "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles" artist booklet from 1967, and t…

The services in question are provided by the local municipality - and they don’t receive extra government funding for this. So unlike a regular citizen who registers on a real stre…

Do you have any reliable evidence to back up your assertion that the activity in question "wasn't a very common practice in earlier generations"? The fact that something isn't open…

Rainforest conservation can hardly be described as being "done right" when it is paid for by selling/burning more fossil fuels elsewhere.

Just to make sure it's clear to everyone who's commenting about how great this is - in return for UAE paying to protect Liberia's forests, it gets to burn more fossil fuels while c…

I have a question. Blambla or Bibiano?

The Boeing in question is a prop plane, not a jet.

Arguably yes, since that curation is paid for with the cut Apple takes on sales in the Apple store.

I tried googling DDP but couldn't find it - do you know the URL?

In my humble opinion, contrary to your claim a lot of things about NFTs make less sense than what you suggest

I have the distinct feeling that Elon's motives are genuine, that he genuinely believes he is on a mission to save humanity, and is genuinely convinced that he is the only one who …