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What artists notice.
“Painters at work notice details we’d ignore. From those details they develop delightful insights into reality.” | learn more
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Rapping Rabbi.
An excellent musical treat for those who like Jewish things. “LChaim by Ari Lesser – Zoltronic” | learn more
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What’s a chuck?
Wikipedia: “A chuck is a specialized type of clamp used to hold an object with radial symmetry, especially a cylinder.” | learn more
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Is it true the Eiffel Tower is taller in the summer?
Yes, “[and] the tower is likely to lean due to the unequal heating effect on the sunny and shady sides.” | learn more
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How I raised queen bees.
From this video, I learned that matching a queen to a hive is a game of trial & error. | learn more
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PFA: An acronym you’ll need to google to understand.
Someone used this in an email to a friend and all of us were stumped. | learn more
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A visual network of 300 blogs.
“I thought it might be interesting to try to map the network that emerges from blogs linking to one another. … I started with astralcodexten.substack.com and continued following links as they were mentioned.” | learn more
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The world’s biggest Hummer.
“[It] is the length of a humpback whale, as wide as three Tesla Model 3s side-by-side, and as tall as three Shaq’s standing on top of each other.” | learn more
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Seizing $7 billion worth of assets on the tiny island of Jersey.
And a $120 million French Chateau. This article is surprisingly interesting despite its being published on a website called Celebrity Net Worth. | learn more
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Persepolis
“Twenty-five hundred years ago, in what is now southern Iran, stood an ancient city of awe-inspiring beauty.” | learn more