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theatlantic: All the Countries that Contribute to a Single Jar of Nutella
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alexainslie: “DC endures in San Francisco because more than 900 of PG&E’s customers still need it. Most of the utility’s customers transitioned to AC lightbulbs and appliances easily enough as competing power distributors coalesced within PG&E and harmonized their equipment around AC. But for some of these building owners, however, elevators were a problem.” –San…
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close-to-the-knives: She/ze
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some Native American languages focus on the process—they see events whereas we see things. For this reason, the Hopi language would be better equipped than English for defining certain phenomena studied by modern physics. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto EcoShared via Kindred (via warrenellis)
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bibliofila: An 18th century collection of choirbooks transcribed by the Augustinian friar Miguel de Aguilar (National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico).
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theatlantic: For Top-Tier Universities, Changes in Higher Education Might Be Overblown Over the last few years, people who study and report on higher education have spent much time talking about the wave of revolution coming for colleges and universities. From MOOCs to student debt to reduced state funding, most people seem to agree that the…
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via polyhead: pencil on paper drawing of topograhic polygonal mesh
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oh! hey! it’s suddenly all better now 🙂 Thank you mysterious internet sprites for fixing my Tumblr dash 🙂
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My version of Firefox seems to have lost access to the CSS for my Tumblr dashboard. It all looks very strange, and has for three days now.
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jstn: Something else that came up at lunch today. oh my! I had forgotten about this book!