do not venture into the contemporary board game landscape without several rooms to dedicated to humidity controlled shelf-space.
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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#152https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
The most remote inhabited island with a strange history with a few founding families, an exodus because of a volcano, an isolated economy/society and research into asthma as a genetic condition
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#153Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#154Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…
If you like these you might also enjoy ICD-10 illustrated. [0]
http://www.icd10illustrated.com/
They found a lot of great codes. One of my favorites from the book: V91.07xD Burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter.
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#155http://www.themastertheorem.com/
It's a puzzle solving website. It isn't updated very regularly nowadays, but all the old "Theorems" are still there.
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#156TV Tropes is always good: http://tvtropes.org/
Or the forked version at https://allthetropes.org if you are sensitive about censorship.
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#157Always good to keep the endgame of humanity in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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#158Something in a much different vein than other sites posted:
http://drtenge.com (NSFW)
This is a Tumblr blog going back years of extremely disturbing medical imagery and art of the same style. Oftentimes there's almost no context given to the pictures other than a name of the author or a title which makes them that much weirder. The images also tend to be associated with fascism or BSDM. I've spent at least a few hours trying to find more about some of the pictures because they were just too weird to go without explanation. The guy has one post about how he really values quality and obscurity in his images and nothing else; no explanation as to who he is or why he collects such horrible and terrifying art. I've always wanted to email him and ask what the hell is going on but I'm kind of scared to know.
Obviously don't click on the link if you do not like gore.
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#159The US Civil War has been mine for the last couple of years. The sheer volume of history and contributing factors, decades of build up, aftermath, affects on the US today, etc. My goodness, the economics of the whole thing are just fascinating. All the internet debates I saw when the confederate flag came down got me really interested in how so many people could know TOTALLY different things about the most historical…
What are some of your favorite "There is no way that's real" moments you came across in your studies?
I really don't know where to start for a quick HN response. There are just so many things that depends heavily on context around them. The economics, for me, are the most interesting parts but it takes a lot of information to put things together to explain.
If I'm going to cite a single thing, it would have to be the Cherokee Declaration of Causes. As a single document providing context around events at the time it's a little mind blowing the first time you read it.
http://cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Events/CherokeeDe...
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#160do not venture into the contemporary board game landscape without several rooms to dedicated to humidity controlled shelf-space.
You forgot the link: