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FluxLists is a collection of lists, spanning a wide variety of fields and interests, served up one-at-a-time for your enjoyment and edification.

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FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Nov 25

First FluxList: "Fifth Course, First Class Menu, Last Meal On The Titanic" — fluxlists.com#1

Fifth Course, First Class Menu, Last Meal On The Titanic

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · 8d

New FluxList: "Nine Times On Base, Single Game" — fluxlists.com#341

Max Carey, July 7, 1922 — six hits, three walks (18 innings)
Johnny Burnett, July 10, 1932 — nine hits (18 innings)
Stan Hack, August 9, 1942 — five hits, four walks (18 innings)
Shohei Ohtani, October 27, 2025 (World Series, Game 3) — four hits, four intentional walks, and one walk (18 innings)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · 14d

New FluxList: "Failed To Replicate Psychology Experiments" — fluxlists.com#340

Ego Depletion
Power Posing
Social Priming: Elderly Words
Money Priming
ESP Precognition
Cleanliness and Morality
Glucose and Ego Depletion
Hunger and Risk-Taking
Psychological Distance & Construal Level (serious credibility problems)
Ovulation & Mate Preferences
Marshmallow Test & Long-Term Success
Stereotype Threat
Smile to Feel Better
Objective Measurement of Biases (mixed evidence with small effects)
Mozart Effect
Growth Mindset Interventions (mixed results; many failed replications)
Bilinguals Are Smarter
Difficulty Makes You More Rational

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · 27d

New FluxList: "Ten Tenets of Chindōgu" — fluxlists.com#339

cannot be for real use
must exist
must have a spirit of anarchy
is a tool for everyday life
is not a tradeable commodity
must not have been created for purposes of humour alone: humour is merely the by-product
is not propaganda
is not taboo
cannot be patented
is without prejudice

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Sep 25

New FluxList: "Hokey Pokeys" — fluxlists.com#338

hokey pokey (United States)
hokey cokey or hokey kokey (or cokey cokey or okey cokey) (United Kingdom)
hokey pokey or hokey cokey (Australia)
hokey tokey or hokey cokey (New Zealand)
hockey-pockey (Mexico)
rucki-zucki (Germany)
boogie woogie (Denmark)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Sep 11

New FluxList: "Banned Futures Contracts" — fluxlists.com#337

onions
motion picture box office receipts
events contrary to the public interest; illegal activity, terrorism, assassination, war, “gaming” (pre-2024?)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Aug 28

New FluxList: "Played for the Most Teams" — fluxlists.com#336

Rich Hill, MLB — 14 Teams
Edwin Jackson, MLB — 14 Teams
Josh Johnson, NFL — 14 Teams
Ish Smith, NBA — 13 Teams
Mike Sillinger, NHL — 12 Teams
Nathan Sturgis, MLS — 8 Teams
Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA — 4 Teams
Sebastián Abreu, International Soccer (El Loco; The Madman) — 32 Clubs (11 Countries; 26 Years)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Aug 14

New FluxList: "Flew To The Moon, Twice" — fluxlists.com#335

Jim Lovell (Apollo 8, Apollo 13; never landed)
John Young (Apollo 10, Apollo 16)
Eugene Cernan (Apollo 10, Apollo 17)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jul 31

New FluxList: "Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office" — fluxlists.com#334

Rufus of England ("Treasury Bill") (1924 - 1930; 1 Prime Minister)
Peter (1929 - 1946; 5 PMs)
Munich Mouser (1937 - 1943; 2 PMs)
Nelson (1940s; 1 PM)
Peter II (1946 - 1947; 1 PM)
Peter III (1947 - 1964; 5 PMs)
Peta (1964 - 1976; 3 PMs)
Wilberforce (1973 - 1987; 4 PMs)
Humphrey (1989 - 1997; 3 PMs)
Sybil (2007 - 2009; 1 PM)
Freya (2012 - 2014; 1 PM)
Larry (2011 - current; 6 PMs)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jul 17

New FluxList: "Baseball Pitches" — fluxlists.com#333

Four-seam fastball (rising fastball, four-seamer, cross-seam)
Two-seam fastball (running fastball)
Cutter
Sinker
Split-finger fastball (splitter)
12–6 Curveball (yellow hammer, drop curveball)
Curveball (11 to 5 curve, 2 to 8 curve, the bender, the hook, the yakker, Uncle Charlie)
Knuckle curve
Screwball (scroogie, airbender)
Slider (sweeper, “Mr. Snappy”)
Slurve (portmanteau of slider and curve)
Changeup (change-of-pace)
Circle changeup (okay changeup)
Straight changeup
Vulcan changeup (vulcan, trekkie)
Forkball (dry spitter, “ghostfork”)
Fosh (“a cross between a fastball and a dead fish”)
Palmball (slip pitch)

Gyroball
Eephus pitch (balloon ball, blooper ball, gondola, parachute, rainbow pitch, gravity curve, The Monty Brewster, Bugs Bunny curve)
Knuckleball (knuckler, flutterball, floater, dancer, butterfly ball, ghostball, the bug)
Shuuto (shootball)
Spitball (shine ball) (illegal)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jul 3

New FluxList: "Irish Goodbyes" — fluxlists.com#332

Irish goodbye — United States, Canada, England
French leave/exit — England
to take French leave — Ireland
to leave in the French style (“sair à francesa”) — Portugal
say goodbye like the French (“despedirse a la francesa”) — Spain
to leave English style (“filer à l'anglaise”) — France
to leave the English way (“wyjść po angielsku”) — Poland
to leave English style (“a o șterge englezește”) — Romania
to leave the English way (“angolosan távozni”) — Hungary
to leave in the English way (“уйти по-английски”) — Russia
Polish exit (“polnischer Abgang”) — Germany, Austria
to make oneself Swedish (“gjøre svenske av seg”) — Norway
to do the German (?) — Sweden

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jun 19

New FluxList: "Giant Donuts of Greater Los Angeles" — fluxlists.com#331

Randy’s Donuts — Inglewood
Donut King II — Gardena ("No word on what happened to Donut King I")
Kindle’s Do-Nuts — Los Angeles
Dale’s Donuts — Compton
The Donut Hole — La Puente (drive through)
Angel Food Donuts — Long Beach (four locations)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jun 5

New FluxList: "Longest Paper Airplane Flights" — fluxlists.com#330

29.2 seconds — Takuo Toda (2010)
27.9 seconds — Takuo Toda (1998)
27.6 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1998)
20.9 seconds — Chris Edge, Andy Currey (1996)
18.8 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1994)
17.2 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1987)
16.9 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1983)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · May 22

New FluxList: "Kardashev Scale" — fluxlists.com#329

Type I — a civilization able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption
Type II — a civilization that directly consume a star's energy, most likely through the use of a Dyson sphere
Type III — a civilization able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · May 1

New FluxList: "Colors Of Noise" — fluxlists.com#328

white
pink
brownian (red)
blue (azure)
violet (purple)
grey
velvet
green
black
noisy white

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Apr 17

New FluxList: "The Tokyo Toilets" — fluxlists.com#327

Yoyogi 5-68-1 (Shigeru Ban, architect) — “blue and green walls to complement the surrounding trees”
Tomigaya 1-54-1 (Shigeru Ban) — Transparent walls that become opaque when in use
Ebisu nishi 1-19-1 (Masamichi Katayama) — “A maze of 15 board-marked concrete walls”
Higashi 3-27-1 (Nao Tamura) — inspired by Origata
Ebisu 1-2-16 (Fumihiko Maki) — “Squid Toilet”, with a courtyard in its center
Nishihara 1-29-1 (Takenosuke Sakakura) — glows in a dark like a lantern
Jingūmae 6-22-8 (Tadao Ando) — circular building made using “vertical metal louvres”
Jingūme 1-3-14 (Nigo) — “a small house with a red-pitched roof, blue-framed windows and three chimney-style elements”, inspired by Washington Heights
Shōtō 2-10-7 (Kengo Kuma) — “A Walk in the Woods”, made using cedar wood
Ebisu minami 1-5-8 (Kashiwa Satō) — a box made from “white aluminum louvres”
Yoyogi 5-1-2 (Toyo Ito) — mushrooms from a nearby forest
Hatagaya 2-53-5 (Kazoo Satō) — uses voice control to open the door, flush, and play ambient sounds

Hiro'o 4-2-27 (Tomohito Ushiro) — light panel “displays 7.9 billion different light patterns referencing the world's population at the point the project was conceived”
Sendagaya 4-28-1 (Marc Newson) — inspired by “historic Japanese temples and tea rooms”
Hatagaya 3-37-8 (Miles Pennington) — “a toilet that can be used as an exhibition space, cinema, pop-up kiosk, information centre or public meeting place”
Sasazuka 1-29 (Junko Kobayashi) — “weathering steel cylinders”
Yoyogi 3-27-1 (Sou Fujimoto) — looks like “an oversized sink”

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Apr 3

New FluxList: "Bridges of Sighs" — fluxlists.com#326

Venice — named for the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment
Chester, England — crosses Chester Canal; allowed condemned prisoners to receive last rites before their execution without risk of escape
Cambridge, England — crosses River Cam at St John's College
Oxford, England — skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane
Glasgow, Scotland — uncovered bridge from cathedral to the Glasgow Necropolis
Frankfurt am Main, Germany — at the Römer building; citizens crossed when paying taxes (Seufzerbrücke)
Szeged, Hungary — connects the City Hall and House of Labor buildings (Sóhajok hídja)
Santa Barbara, California — small arch connecting Santa Barbara County Courthouse to the courthouse jail
Reno, Nevada — the Virginia Street Bridge; where newly divorced women would toss their wedding rings into the Truckee River
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — connects the Allegheny County Courthouse and the old county jail
New York City, New York — connected The Tombs with the Criminal Courts Building
Arizona — natural Redwall Limestone arch in the Grand Canyon
Las Vegas, Nevada — in The Venetian Hotel

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Mar 20

New FluxList: "Andre Walker Hair Typing System" — fluxlists.com#325

1a — Straight (fine)
1b — Straight (medium)
1c — Straight (coarse)
2a — Wavy (loose waves)
2b — Wavy (defined waves)
2c — Wavy (wide waves)
3a — Curly (loose curls)
3b — Curly (tight curls)
3c — Curly (corkscrews)
4a — Kinky-coily (defined coil)
4b — Kinky-coily (z coil)
4c — Kinky-coily (tight coil)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Mar 6

New FluxList: "Non-Primate Menstruation" — fluxlists.com#324

NON-PRIMATE MENSTRUATION
Spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)
Elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi)
Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata)
Leschenault's rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaultii)
Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina)
Black mastiff bat (Molossus ater)
Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis pilosus)

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Feb 20

New FluxList: "Foreign Exchange Currency Pair Slang" — fluxlists.com#323

FOREIGN EXCHANGE CURRENCY PAIR SLANG
GBP/USD — Cable
EUR/USD — Fiber
EUR/GBP — Chunnel
USD/CAD — Loonie
USD/JPY — Gopher/Ninja
GBP/JPY — Guppy
EUR/JPY — Euppy/Yuppy
EUR/RUB — Betty
USD/RUB — Barnie
AUD/USD — Aussie/Matie
NZD/USD — Kiwi/The Bird
EUR/CHF — Swissie

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Feb 6

New FluxList: "U.S. Scent Trademarks" — fluxlists.com#322

Power Plus Lubricants — cherry, strawberry, and grape; for vehicle lubricants [2463044]
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical — minty; for pain-relief patches [3589348]
Grendene — bubble gum; for shoes and sandals [4754435]
Le Vian Corp — chocolate; for jewelry stores [4966487]
Hasbro — sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough; for “Play-Doh” [5467089]
Harvest Dental Products — almond and vanilla; both used for dental modeling wax [5735892]
Sol Imports (formerly Sandal Island) — tropical coconut; for sandals [5881616]
Bushnell — banana and evergreen, with a hint of ammonium and kerosene; for gun-cleaning preparations [6016544]

Andrew Vaughn — fresh, sweet oranges; for shoe polish [6338566]
Storm Products — mint; for bowling balls [6497227]
Natural Fiber Welding — warm woodsy scent with clove spice undertones; for imitation leather and plant-based fabrics [6854397]
Deep Blue Indoor Play — floral scent that invokes a sense of being at an ocean/beach; for children's entertainment and amusement centers [7369089]
Crayola — reminiscent of a slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones; for crayons [7431203]
Kalin Manchev — rose oil; for advertising and marketing [77871535]

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jan 23

New FluxList: "Notable TV Crossovers" — fluxlists.com#321

St. Elsewhere + Cheers
The X-Files + Cops
The Simpsons + The X-Files
Bones + Family Guy
Archer + Bob’s Burgers
Arrested Development + Law & Order: SVU
Alice + The Dukes of Hazzard
Cougar Town + Community
I Love Lucy + The Adventures of Superman
Mr. Robot + Alf
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds + Star Trek: Lower Decks
Ally McBeal + The Practice

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Jan 9

New FluxList: "Modern Grand Piano Action" — fluxlists.com#320

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Dec 26

New FluxList: "One Red Paperclip Trades" — fluxlists.com#319

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Dec 12

New FluxList: "British Musical Note Values" — fluxlists.com#318

FluxLists @fluxlists.bsky.social · Dec 3

New FluxList: "Hall of Fame Restrooms" — fluxlists.com#317