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Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)

3 days ago | lifeisstillgood | gwern.net | newest

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Star Wars: Darth Vader's lightsaber sells for £2.7M at LA auction (bbc.co.uk)

4 days ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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A 'third way' between buying or renting? Swiss co-ops say they've found it (nytimes.com)

a week ago | lifeisstillgood | nytimes.com | frontpage

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What stealth advantage meant in first Gulf war (youtube.com)

a week ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Camels store more water in their humps than if they stored water in their humps [video] (youtube.com)

a week ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Half of children in England live in homes at risk of overheating (bbc.co.uk)

a week ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Tracking asteroids or stealth fighters with phone cameras (youtube.com)

a week ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Physics of a javelin and a Fosbury Flop [video] (youtube.com)

2 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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A NASA Astronaut Once Wore a Gorilla Suit Aboard ISS? – Snopes.com (snopes.com)

2 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | snopes.com | newest

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The Nigerian prom dresses that have the wow factor for US teenagers (bbc.com)

2 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.com | newest

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft (wikipedia.org)

3 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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A British Army Captain did not start WWIII [video] (youtube.com)

3 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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A 12 year old slave boy invented vanilla pollination [video] (youtube.com)

3 weeks ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Recordings used in 1980 to create sound of Millennium Falcon [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | best

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Lost in translation: road sign carries email reply – Wales (theguardian.com)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | theguardian.com | newest

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Tracking stealth fighters and birds near aircraft with camera phones (youtube.com)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The origin of Bada-Bing [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Tuam: Babies and toddlers came to be buried in an unmarked mass grave (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Why small-time criminals burned a London warehouse for Russia's Wagner Group (bbc.co.uk)

2 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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AI controlled gun turrets in Ukraine (youtube.com)

3 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Google may be forced to make changes to UK online search, says watchdog (bbc.com)

3 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.com | newest

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What Gallium does to an Aluminium bat [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Why USA is rethinking Air Power (youtube.com)

3 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Battle of Athens (1946) (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | lifeisstillgood | wikipedia.org | newest

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Restoring our services – 10 October 2024 update – Knowledge Matters blog (blogs.bl.uk)

4 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bl.uk | newest

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Footage of West Papua Tribal War (1963) (youtube.com)

4 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Driving on four pints and seven whiskeys – 1977 (youtu.be)

5 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtu.be | frontpage

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3-D printing bone like lattices to improve knee surgery results [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The speed of a passenger jet seen from a hot air balloon [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Ancient Roman shipwreck may hold clue to cosmology debate (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Statistics for Hackers (Pycon 2016) (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Kids for Cash Scandal (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Ground Drones in Ukraine (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Sound Mirrors that protected Britain before Radar (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The Slow collapse of long term planning - How Money Works (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | frontpage

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Doctors didn't warn women of 'risky sex' drug urges (bbc.co.uk)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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The Monty Hall Rewrite – Alex Sexton (alexsexton.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | alexsexton.com | newest

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When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013) (atlasobscura.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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Operation Plumbbob (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | wikipedia.org | newest

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An impressive geology lecture [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Gambler wins £1M payout from online game vendor in High Court case (bbc.co.uk)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Chinese Explorer Zheng He's Ship Compared to Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria (ramblingbog.wordpress.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | wordpress.com | newest

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Perun on "could Europe defend itself without US?" (youtube.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Europractice (europractice.com)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | europractice.com | frontpage

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The housing theory of everything (2021) (worksinprogress.co)

6 months ago | lifeisstillgood | worksinprogress.co | best

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Michael Collins, the astronaut, is the only human not in this picture, 1969 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

7 months ago | lifeisstillgood | rarehistoricalphotos.com | newest

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Float a table in the air with a sledgehammer [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Clive Myrie: What I saw during my 24 hours at London's Royal Free Hospital (bbc.co.uk)

7 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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The Shepards Leap [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Incredibly well preserved fossil – and why it is so preserved [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The shadiest town on Earth [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Microprocessors – huge amounts power but no language support (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Lessons from the Past to Overcome Capitalism (vladbunea.substack.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | substack.com | newest

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Unusual diagnosis of Car that stops after 33 miles [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Brother's anger over Katie Allan's death at young offenders unit (bbc.co.uk)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Precision Engineering Desk Toys – Metmo Metal – MetMo (metmo.co.uk)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | metmo.co.uk | newest

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da Vinci's solution to turning a spit [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Perun on *a ground attack on Russian trenches by ground robots (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The Shepard's Leap – traversing impossible terrain [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Rodney Brooks' Three Laws of Robotics – Rodney Brooks (rodneybrooks.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | rodneybrooks.com | newest

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So that's what a "Touchstone" is [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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A systematic review of school refusal – Current Psychology (springer.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | springer.com | newest

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Report on a "fully automated battle" in Ukraine (podcasts.apple.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | apple.com | newest

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Poisson's Spot – demo of wavelike nature of light (youtube.com)

8 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Google internal mail from tech search lead to ad lead [pdf] (justice.gov)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | justice.gov | frontpage

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McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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FT Podcast: Why Northvolt Failed to Become Europes Battery Champion (podcasts.apple.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | apple.com | newest

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Aktiia Blood Pressure Data Extractor (mikado-aktiia.readthedocs.io)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | readthedocs.io | newest

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Convergent Encryption (wikipedia.org)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | wikipedia.org | newest

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Solving the bootstrap problem of secrets management- turtles all the way down [pdf] (usenix.org)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | usenix.org | newest

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River Thames: man wades, swims, kayaks from source to sea (youtube.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Google raises floor price for adverts (youtube.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Judge Rejects The Onion's Purchase of Alex Jones's Infowars (bbc.co.uk)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip (bbc.co.uk)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Living without atomic clocks: Where CockroachDB and Spanner diverge (cockroachlabs.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | cockroachlabs.com | newest

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Half male gym users taking steroids (biomedcentral.com)

9 months ago | lifeisstillgood | biomedcentral.com | newest

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Centuries old bond that is still paying interest (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Formance – The Color of Money: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part II (formance.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | formance.com | frontpage

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Formance – Warehousing Promises: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part I (formance.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | formance.com | newest

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The Copper Plate Must Die (121gigawatts.org)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | 121gigawatts.org | newest

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The digital afterlife – not quite what we expect (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Pilots arrogant mistakes kill 152 people (2010) (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Modelling Hannibal's battle of Cannae suggests standard explanation infeasible (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Russia's soldiers bringing wartime violence back home (bbc.co.uk)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Foundry worker puts wet scrap metal into furnace (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | frontpage

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Why US Truckers can't make a living anymore (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Will a kettle full of alcohol boil forever? (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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The Telltale Traces of the US Military's New 'Bladed' Missile (bellingcat.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bellingcat.com | newest

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Ask HN: Who interested in CPD (cont. prof. development) for software engineers?

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | ycombinator.com | newest

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Belgium: Salary Indexation Forecasted Rates – Agility (agilityeor.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | agilityeor.com | newest

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Portsmouth City Council among UK authorities hit by cyber attack (bbc.co.uk)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Most Small Businesses do not make a profit (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Why isn't functional programming the norm? (youtube.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Action Comics 1 – 1938. Superman. – PDF – DC Comics (scribd.com)

10 months ago | lifeisstillgood | scribd.com | newest

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Sugar in first 1k days linked to poor health later (bbc.co.uk)

11 months ago | lifeisstillgood | bbc.co.uk | newest

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What distinguishes great software engineers? [pdf] (washington.edu)

11 months ago | lifeisstillgood | washington.edu | newest

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Inventor of "touchscreen" finds one on eBay and unboxes [video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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When the codebase makes more design decisions than the devs (youtube.com)

11 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest

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Always Kill Beria [video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | lifeisstillgood | youtube.com | newest