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conulyWhat snakes lack in legs they make up for with strange body manipulations
Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood
Toothpaste is Our New Favorite Souvenir
How Bazooka Joe Lost a Baseball Glove
What Scientists Learned From Putting 3-D Glasses on Praying Mantises (Extremely informative!)
Building A Latino-Muslim Coalition With #TacoTrucksAtEveryMosque
Rio Carnival evolves into low-cost street party extravaganza
These lab-grown human eggs could combat infertility—if they prove healthy
The Revolutionary Power of Black Panther
The defining debate of the early compact disc era centered around the longbox, a wasteful form of packaging pushed by retailers and paper manufacturers.
Free public transport for older adults tied to less depression
Study finds cleaner ship fuels will reduce childhood asthma by 3.6 percent globally
Ancient temple left neglected as Yemen war threatens history
Inside Afghanistan's only high security mental institution (Video)
The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (And by teens, as the comments pointed out, they mostly mean boys. Sigh)
China backs boasts of ‘new era’ with patriotic movies, rap music
Photos show Beijing’s militarisation of South China Sea in new detail
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It
20 Years Of Congress’s Budget Procrastination, In One Chart
For every woman in political office in the US, there are three men.
How the Republicans rigged Congress — new documents reveal an untold story
Hospital plumbing a 'vast, resilient reservoir' of superbugs
'I share my home with 28 refugees'
Years late, Syria's children of war learn to read and write
Far From Winding Down, Syria’s War Escalates on Multiple Fronts
A Young Rohingya Mom: Pregnant, Stateless, Living In Limbo
Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then killed
Rakhine state: Hatred and despair in Myanmar's restive region
Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood
Toothpaste is Our New Favorite Souvenir
How Bazooka Joe Lost a Baseball Glove
What Scientists Learned From Putting 3-D Glasses on Praying Mantises (Extremely informative!)
Building A Latino-Muslim Coalition With #TacoTrucksAtEveryMosque
Rio Carnival evolves into low-cost street party extravaganza
These lab-grown human eggs could combat infertility—if they prove healthy
The Revolutionary Power of Black Panther
The defining debate of the early compact disc era centered around the longbox, a wasteful form of packaging pushed by retailers and paper manufacturers.
Free public transport for older adults tied to less depression
Study finds cleaner ship fuels will reduce childhood asthma by 3.6 percent globally
Ancient temple left neglected as Yemen war threatens history
Inside Afghanistan's only high security mental institution (Video)
The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (And by teens, as the comments pointed out, they mostly mean boys. Sigh)
China backs boasts of ‘new era’ with patriotic movies, rap music
Photos show Beijing’s militarisation of South China Sea in new detail
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It
20 Years Of Congress’s Budget Procrastination, In One Chart
For every woman in political office in the US, there are three men.
How the Republicans rigged Congress — new documents reveal an untold story
Hospital plumbing a 'vast, resilient reservoir' of superbugs
'I share my home with 28 refugees'
Years late, Syria's children of war learn to read and write
Far From Winding Down, Syria’s War Escalates on Multiple Fronts
A Young Rohingya Mom: Pregnant, Stateless, Living In Limbo
Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then killed
Rakhine state: Hatred and despair in Myanmar's restive region
Unreadable documents
Date: 2018-02-09 02:34 pm (UTC)I'm not surprised Ms Watson can read documents in several languages. In places it's kind of a guessing game that reveals itself once you've got the flow. I've seen some letters of Henry VIII that looked totally unreadable at first glance. Then I'd see a word or two, and some sentences would be perfectly clear, if not exactly every one. Nice to know epigraphy isn't dead.
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Date: 2018-02-09 03:34 pm (UTC)There's an irony about how the Middle East is one of the major cradles of human culture and at the same time it's also this endless mess, partly thanks to Western countries supplying the weapons for the area. And yet at the same time it is also preserved by those Western forces, but only if it's of the images they approve of!
I'm one of the people in that Time article who is more than happy to dismiss Black Panther as just another superhero film and I've hated Disney for its practices long before people even read about their strict employee practices on a regular basis, but that this movie is fomenting so much Santeria out of the mouths of internet pontiffs is a sign of just how sad this world is.
TBF, I felt the same way about Wonder Woman too, which I honestly wish didn't feel so groundbreaking when it should just feel as normal as everything else that comes out as a summer blockbuster. Americans are such a mess.
Oh, I will say this: I'm piqued about Annihilation. Jane the Virgin, Natalie Portman, one of the Hateful 8, and the brothel owner from Westworld in a sci-fi film that looks like a partial head trip? Hell yeah!
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Date: 2018-02-09 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-11 01:18 am (UTC)That people with more mobility are less depressed makes sense. Fares provide such a tiny part of a bus company's budget that I think they should all be free. Or all roads should have tolls.
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Date: 2018-02-11 02:13 am (UTC)