The cold weather has arrived
Dec. 5th, 2024 08:43 amWhich means it's warm water in the birdbath!
Also: My iphone just updated and now I see I can do text effects in text. But somehow they forgot to include marquee, blink, and glitter. For shame.
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Bug smuggler busted with over 300 tarantulas strapped to body — dozens as big as a human hand
8-Year-old Heart Transplant Patient Craved Pickles so Hospital Chef Taught Her How to Make Them
The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door (I've often wanted to find a hidden library behind a secret door, but this is almost as good.)
An Indonesian Tribe’s Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea’s
A list of English Words of the Year for this year. Apparently, dictionaries mostly have disappointingly kept it light, leaving it to The Economist to tell it like it is.
Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart
The best time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?
Covid and the omegaverse. Never change, fandom. Never change.
If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
What Happens When US Hospitals Go Big on Nurse Practitioners
The Hunter Biden Pardon Is Defensible and Perverse (Also)
New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail
In pictures: 40 years since world's deadliest gas leak killed thousands in India
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Also: My iphone just updated and now I see I can do text effects in text. But somehow they forgot to include marquee, blink, and glitter. For shame.
Bug smuggler busted with over 300 tarantulas strapped to body — dozens as big as a human hand
8-Year-old Heart Transplant Patient Craved Pickles so Hospital Chef Taught Her How to Make Them
The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door (I've often wanted to find a hidden library behind a secret door, but this is almost as good.)
An Indonesian Tribe’s Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea’s
A list of English Words of the Year for this year. Apparently, dictionaries mostly have disappointingly kept it light, leaving it to The Economist to tell it like it is.
Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart
The best time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?
Covid and the omegaverse. Never change, fandom. Never change.
If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
What Happens When US Hospitals Go Big on Nurse Practitioners
The Hunter Biden Pardon Is Defensible and Perverse (Also)
New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail
In pictures: 40 years since world's deadliest gas leak killed thousands in India
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
American Dialect Society
Date: 2024-12-03 07:24 pm (UTC)The words of the century and millennium, picked in 2000, were "jazz" and "she," which continues to delight me.
Re: American Dialect Society
Date: 2024-12-03 07:28 pm (UTC)