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personalfactory: myminifactory: TGIF 🎉 Ready for a relaxing battleship board game with your mates? Nice design!
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Estrecho del rio Magdalena
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salon: 1. Oliver Slams Mandatory Minimums and Mass Incarceration Just last week, Oliver piggybacked off the news of President Obama’s 46 commutations and pivoted to our country’s insane mandatory minimums and their role in making the US the world leader in incarcerating its people. 2. Oliver Blasts the U.S. Bail System for Locking up Poor…
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thegetty: The “Great Wave” by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai has long been the world’s go-to emblem for tsunamis. Thing is, it doesn’t depict a tsunami. Scientists have identified it as a “rogue wave,” a freak occurrence caused by high winds and strong currents in the open sea rather than on the shore. —Why the Iconic…
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One of the most notorious criminals of all time, and also said to be the wealthiest in history, Pablo Escobar inspires yet another television series “Narcos”. Although Escobar has been fictionalized on screen various times over the years – “Blow” in 2001, “Escobar: Paradise Lost” in 2014 – the upcoming Netflix series chooses to focus…
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In June, just after describing its proposed neighbor delivery system, Amazon announced that it would be instituting a new payment system for authors who use its Kindle Select publishing platform (in other words, authors for whom Amazon functions as both publisher and distributor), according to which authors will be paid each time readers turn the…
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jmoenig/Snap–Build-Your-Own-Blocks
jmoenig/Snap–Build-Your-Own-Blocks Snap! has a new release with interesting experimental features. Snap! is an open source visual programming environment based on Scratch. Snap! tends to extend the capabilities and opportunities presented by Scratch in interesting ways. There is an ongoing tension between ease of learning and what I will call an advanced feature set. What Mitch…
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The freedom of being a bird girl isn’t without its dangers
The freedom of being a bird girl isn’t without its dangers posted for future reference for an ongoing project.
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Culture consists of all the products of a society that are created over time and shared by members of that society. The term nonmaterial culture refers to all the nonphysical products of society that are created over time and shared: knowledge, beliefs, customs, values, morals, and so on. Nonmaterial culture also includes common patterns of…
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rebeccasugar: Painting some chickens in the yard