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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.
www.openculture.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
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Seeds! Free and Exchanged. I visit one of my favorite spots every Saturday - a liberal garden blog! A busy one. They are doing a seed thing today, if you want to stop in.
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
🌱 #gardening #vegetables
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
🌱 #gardening #vegetables
Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 21.3: Seeds of Sustenance and Beauty
Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging! This is a group that publishes an oasis of garden delight and dialogue every Sat. at 9am Eastern. We welcome all to join our discussion and share what��
www.dailykos.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Seeds! Free and Exchanged. I visit one of my favorite spots every Saturday - a liberal garden blog! A busy one. They are doing a seed thing today, if you want to stop in.
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
🌱 #gardening #vegetables
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
🌱 #gardening #vegetables
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"Resist the urge to think of your own past as a simpler time. The truth is, you were a child with a child’s understanding of the world... Do not make the choice to regress, no matter how much you wish things could be simple again."
To Defeat Fascism, We Must Reject Nostalgia
I’ll be blunt: nostalgia has played no small part in bringing us to our current moment. The desire to return to a mythic past is one of the hallmarks of fascism, and now that America has allowed an…
theharvestmaidsrevenge.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Resist the urge to think of your own past as a simpler time. The truth is, you were a child with a child’s understanding of the world... Do not make the choice to regress, no matter how much you wish things could be simple again."
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Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors
Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors
Whether or not we believe in auteurhood, we each have our own mental image of what a film director does.
www.openculture.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors
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Yong Miao’s beautiful shot of a damselfly perched on a stone near a waterfall won the Insects category of the 6th annual Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest. Don't miss out on the incredible images from each category winner:
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/cupo...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/cupo...
January 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yong Miao’s beautiful shot of a damselfly perched on a stone near a waterfall won the Insects category of the 6th annual Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest. Don't miss out on the incredible images from each category winner:
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/cupo...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/cupo...
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Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…
www.themarginalian.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are and where life leads is yet unwritten.
On beginnings, life's spell against stagnation:
On beginnings, life's spell against stagnation:
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings
“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:01 PM
There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are and where life leads is yet unwritten.
On beginnings, life's spell against stagnation:
On beginnings, life's spell against stagnation:
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Cryptocurrency was supposed to be self limiting because we were told that the value would never exceed the cost of electricity to keep creating it. Organized crime bypassed all that.
www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/2...
www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/2...
It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too
Bitcoin’s environmental impact grows as the price rises.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Cryptocurrency was supposed to be self limiting because we were told that the value would never exceed the cost of electricity to keep creating it. Organized crime bypassed all that.
www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/2...
www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/2...
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This poster visualizes over 800 of known exoplanets believed to be rocky or terrestrial, arranged by the amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like. see: Halcyon Maps www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-... #astrobiology #exoplanet
December 1, 2023 at 5:47 PM
This poster visualizes over 800 of known exoplanets believed to be rocky or terrestrial, arranged by the amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like. see: Halcyon Maps www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-... #astrobiology #exoplanet
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November 19, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930)
1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930)
Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons
Bertrand Russell may have lived his long life concerned with big topics in logic, mathematics, politics, and society, but that didn't keep him from thin...
www.openculture.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930)
1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.