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Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets
There’s a bank in the game Animal Crossing. It slashed interest rates to near zero. | learn more
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Daguerreotype: the original photograph
From Wikipedia, “The daguerreotype process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.” The first image of Abraham Lincoln used this technology, and it looks eerie! | learn more
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Bailout tracker from 2008
You’ll be pleasantly surprised that ProPublica has continued to update their tracker of every dollar of taxpayer money from the 2008 bailout of the financial system. | learn more
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I had no idea sequencing a genome was this easy
There’s a device called the MinION. It fits in the palm of your hand. It weighs around 0.25 lbs. It plugs into the USB port on a laptop. It’s cost? A mere $1,000. | learn more
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What’s an Elephant Walk?
I stumbled across this term and hadn’t heard of it before. It’s a military maneuver that’s a strong symbolic show of force. The U.S. military just did one on Guam this week. | learn more
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Collecting corpses for a fee
In October 2019, Yale historian Frank Snowden published Epidemics in Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Click through for some interesting epidemic context based on the plague in Europe. | learn more
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Adverse vs averse
I had to look this up this week. I’ve been guilty of using them interchangeably. “Adverse and averse are both turn-offs, but adverse is something harmful, and averse is a strong feeling of dislike. Rainstorms can cause adverse conditions, and […]
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An entrepreneur launched Colorado’s virus response team
“I thought the most interesting way to present the experience here on OnlyOnce (because you *definitely* Only lead a COVID-19 state emergency task force Once) would be to share the daily chronicle, a few days at a time, along with […]
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Museum asks people to recreate famous paintings with stuff at home
Some of these are exceptional. “The Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged art fans to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite works of art from the safety of their homes.” | learn more
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Antarctica used to have a rainforest
“New evidence shows that the planet’s coldest continent harbored rich, wet forests in the dinosaurs’ time. The results will help shape estimates of human-driven warming.” | learn more