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ift.tt/33w41RD The defining feature of a crystal is that it is made from regular, repeating blocks, but a chance discovery in an old German book has turned that view on its head via ift.tt/33ytGcc ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/2R08TM7 Hailing from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, American photographer and reggae historian Roger Steffens longed for the gentle caress of the natural world, rather than the asphalt jungle in which he was raised. As a teen, he used to pour over…

ift.tt/2snlhvx The little rainfall has led to low harvest and difficulties for cattle to graze, in particular in the Southern parts of Zambia where Philip lives. This has resulted in an increase in malnutrition. 2.3 million people in Zambia are…

ift.tt/33mVUH4 Prior to modeling software, architects needed a way to determine how the passing of the sun would affect houses they were working on. Are some parts of the house getting too much sun or not enough sun? Are weird…

ift.tt/33n0zZv By United States Geological Survey – United States Geological Survey, Public Domain, Link Lake Nyos, locally known as the “Bad Lake”, is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. A pocket of magma lies beneath the lake…

ift.tt/37QusF4 The Five & Dime Antique Mall in Bakersfield, California, is filled with retro treasures. But for those who want to experience the past firsthand, the store also offers a piece of living history: the last operational Woolworth’s lunch counter.…

ift.tt/2QUVqVL View this post on Instagram A post shared by @persons.places.or.things on Feb 1, 2019 at 3:18am PST “Blown Away” is a stunning series of sculptures by British artist Penny Hardy. Each sculpture is that of a life-sized human made…

ift.tt/2Oo4Asb A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. Every year at The Universe in Verse — the charitable celebration of science through poetry I host each…

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ift.tt/2rtOXXg In Norse cosmology, there is no more important entity than Yggdrasil. When it dies, the myths tell us, the whole world of the gods dies with it. Nearly every Norse text that mentions Yggdrasil emphasizes that the tree is…

ift.tt/37DJca9 “The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and…

ift.tt/2OkuRaP Some mathematical patterns are so subtle you could search for a lifetime and never find them. Others are so common that they seem impossible to avoid. A new proof by Sarah Peluse of the University of Oxford establishes that…

ift.tt/2QLCfxU Simply Recipes 2019 Meal Plan: November Week 4 Take it easy leading up to Thanksgiving with this week’s meal plan. Peppery garlic prawns and cheese and mushroom quesadillas come together quickly, then use up those leftovers with turkey chili…

ift.tt/2OBat4p About halfway through the 2014 film, The Hundred-Foot Journey, comes a defining moment. The protagonist, young Indian cook Hassan Kadam (played by Manish Dayal), wants to prove himself to the very French Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), a Michelin-decorated chef…

ift.tt/2pM8wtu With the release of the Fred Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks, musician Clint Robinson of Barely Mob Studios performed a rather memorable death metal cover of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”, the iconic…

ift.tt/2KJqXWM Watercolours from an early twentieth-century book of spells depicting Persian demons associated with the zodiac. via ift.tt/336k2xu ift.tt/1Iw5YLO

ift.tt/2KIsxYX On March 30, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will blast off from the European Space Agency’s European spaceport in Kourou, French Giana on board an Ariane 5 rocket. It’ll fly to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, a relatively…

ift.tt/37pPcDj Good code has both substance and style. It provides all necessary information, without extraneous details. It bypasses inefficiencies and bugs. It is accurate, succinct and eloquent enough to be read and understood by humans. But by the late 1960s,…

ift.tt/2rZaG9H You’re pretty clued up when it comes to cybersecurity, right? You’ve got your anti-virus system in place, great passwords, and you’d never download a dodgy file or visit a strange website. You’ve even aced your security awareness training and…

Iran has gone pretty much entirely offline in the wake of nationwide protests. This is the best article detailing what’s going on; this is also good. AccessNow has a global campaign to stop Internet shutdowns. TITLE EDITED TO REDUCE CONFUSION.…