Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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An Honest Stock Market Update
NEW YORK -- Stocks gained momentum on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 48 points, reversing losses from last week's decline.
Experts hailed both moves as a "remarkable, textbook example of pure statistical chance," chalking up Monday's gains to a couple random marginal buyers being slightly more motivated than a few random marginal sellers.
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100 Years of Periods
Allure (YouTube)
Bitesize introduction to the (mostly-unspoken) history of the last century of sanitary products. It wasn't so long ago - still within living memory! - that doctors' advice was not to exercise during your period and that sanitary products had to be packaged in plain containers so as not to embarrass buyers nor … -
Brixton To Brighton By Boris Bike
The Boris bike is a magical creature – aptly named after the former mayor of London ‘Boris Johnson’. I say aptly because the bikes are heavy, chunky, provide the absolute bear minimum service and they are expensive to the public.
At £2 per half hour and with 55 miles ahead of us this was ultimately a … -
You've been... Gayageumstruck!
Luna Lee (YouTube)
AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on a Gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument. You might also enjoy it performed on a pair of cellos. Or, as I shared earlier this year, sung by a 21-month-old. -
Life of Brian Modern Trailer
Stéphane Bouley (YouTube)
What if Monty Python's Life of Brian were a dramatic blockbuster theatrically released in the 2010s? It'd probably have a trailer a bit like this... -
Prime and Punishment
by Josh Dzieza For sellers, Amazon is a quasi-state. They rely on its infrastructure — its warehouses, shipping network, financial systems, and portal to millions of customers — and pay taxes in the form of fees. They also live in terror of its rules, which often change and are harshly enforced.
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Jered Threatin
by Jessica Lussenhop “We would have been overjoyed if that many people actually turned up.”
Jessica Lussenhop (BBC News)
Remember Threatin? Earlier this year, this guy and his band played a European tour to... basically nobody. He'd faked having a successful US career, record deal, etc. and persuaded a handful of session musicians to tour … -
Having a second child worsens parents' mental health
by The Conversation For many parents, the decision to have a second child is made with the expectation that two can’t be more work than one. But our research on Australian parents shows this logic is flawed: second children increase time pressure and deteriorate parents’ mental health.
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The Conversation
New research shows that while it's … -
These Dragon Christmas Decorations Are Tearing a Neighborhood Apart
by River Donaghey
A Louisiana woman's unusual Christmas decorations have inadvertently ignited a beef on her street—because they've apparently got her boring-ass neighbors worried that she's a member of a "demonic cult."
Author Diana Rowland just wanted to celebrate the spirit of the holiday season by, naturally, setting up a bunch of inflatable dragons on her … -
Browsers
by Jeremy Keith I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a while now, and I can heartily recommend it. You should try it (and maybe talk to your relatives about it at Christmas). At this point, which browser you use no longer feels like it’s just about personal choice—it feels part of something …
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
by BMJ ...
Conclusion
Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention.
However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.
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Yeh et al (BMJ)
As always, when the BMJ … -
To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends
by Patrick Kingsley ...[A] marathon church service, which started more than six weeks ago, and hasn’t stopped since, can never take a break.
Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church … -
If your kid stops believing in Santa this year...
by Imgur **********************************
"In our family, we have a special way of transitioning the kids from receiving from Santa, to becoming a Santa. This way, the Santa construct is not a lie that gets discovered, but an unfolding series of good deeds and Christmas spirit.
When they are 6 or 7, whenever you see that dawning suspicion … -
The Hu - Yuve Yuve Yu
by The Hu
The Hu (YouTube)
Mongolian folk rock. Until right now, you probably didn't even know that this was missing from your life.
Be sure to switch on the translated subtitles (assuming you don't speak Mongolian): they're not perfect, but they're good enough to get the idea. Awesome. -
Emails to Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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Margaret Burin (ABC News)
In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of …