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Is it healthier to only eat until you’re 80% full? The Japanese philosophy of hara hachi bu (theconversation.com)
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How the Horse came to be Ridden (3quarksdaily.com)
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374 Bagpipers Set World Record by Playing AC/DC Classic in Melbourne (consequence.net)
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How El Jefe, the Lone Arizona Jaguar Who Captivated a Nation in 2016, Became a 'Rock Star' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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The utopian town hidden in the United States (www.youtube.com)
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‘Only death can protect us’: How the folk saint La Santa Muerte reflects violence in Mexico (theconversation.com)
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Animals that eat poisons and don’t die (knowablemagazine.org)
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The Conspiracist Cotton Mather (theamericanscholar.org)
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Queen bees are violently ousted if worker bees smell weakness (www.popsci.com)
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The Low Life: When Americans Fell for Sunken Living Rooms (www.mentalfloss.com)
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Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory (www.technologyreview.com)
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The Creepy Story Behind England's Green Children (www.youtube.com)
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The Birth Pangs of the U.S. Navy (www.thebulwark.com)
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The Tanuki – The Japanese Racoon Dog (www.arkinspace.com)
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Why Do Pringles Come In A Can? (www.youtube.com)
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Papering Over History (daily.jstor.org)
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Beetle-Wing Embroidery in Nineteenth-Century Fashion (fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu)
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When coal smoke choked St. Louis, residents fought back − but it took time and money (theconversation.com)
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Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit (go.theregister.com)
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The book with a multiplayer first-person shooter inside (www.youtube.com)
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Nikolai Voinov's Paper Sound (1930) (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36321743

A neat video from the 1930's demonstrating animation with synthetically-generated music

The synthetic sounds are generated by variophone, an optical synthesizer that used sound waves cut onto rotating cardboard disks.

Pioneering work in graphic sound was underway in 1926

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How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for the Era of Needy Devices (thewalrus.ca)
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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Ireland paid artists a basic income and it was a boost for the economy (www.good.is)
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1893: A Crazy Cat Tale From Hart Street, Brooklyn (hatchingcatnyc.com)
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