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I always thought of Vincent van Gogh as Bob Ross on LSD, making it all up with happy little nebulae.
Nope.
A new study matches Starry Night to the predawn sky from his asylum window around 3 a.m. on July 22, 1889, a month after the accepted date.
Astronomer Elijah Jeong-hyun Kim and his team based their estimate on the positions of the crescent moon, Venus, and the stars.
ALT van Gogh's Starry Night
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Researchers posthumously studied a 76-year-old health-conscious man's Apple Watch and Oura data and found lots of non-obvious signals before his death: HRV down, heart rate up ...
jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacca…
Looks pretty good, parents .
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was at least one actually pure website? One without the usual gotchas.
No asking for your email. No parts paywalled. No ads. No data collection.
I think so, which is why I created teddyrookbook.com
Homeschool families get every K–12 course free (with teaching guides and practice that checks answers), plus a lesson planner that builds a week-by-week plan. Science labs. Languages. Music. Etiquette. Logic. Meal planning. Trades and farming. And much more!
I’m building this for my family to use and sharing with others because I’m open to feedback on how it can be better.
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While stargazing with my wife last night, an unfamiliar pattern stood out because it looked like a pyramid.
It turned out to be Cassiopeia. Most of its main stars were circumpolar (or nearly so) from the latitude of Giza (~30°) around 2500 BC, so they sat in the northern sky the Egyptians called the region of the Imperishable Ones. That broader interest in never-setting northern stars is well attested.
The specific stars used for the pyramids’ precise north–south orientation appear to have been pairs in Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Cassiopeia doesn’t show up in those models, and no known Egyptian text describes these stars as a pyramidal figure.
Still, the visual parallel is striking, and it was a good reminder to keep looking up.
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Elon Musk explains why SpaceX built its rocket base in one random corner of Texas..
it's all about Earth's spin..
Earth rotates east at about 1,000 miles an hour at the equator..
launch east and you get that speed for free..
the closer to the equator, the bigger the boost..
so you want..
an east coast..
as far south as possible..
with nobody living there..
Florida's coast is almost all homes..
except Cape Canaveral..
which is a government base..
so Musk found the southern tip of Texas..
near Mexico..
empty because hurricanes made it hard to build houses there..
and it had to be US land..
because rocket tech is treated like weapons tech..
and can't just be moved to another country..
the most advanced rocket base on Earth..
started as a beach nobody wanted
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According to ancient Celtic lore, the orange cats were known as "lights against melancholy". They absorb sadness and turn it into warmth.
Their golden aura shields your energy against fatigue and it attracts synchronicities. Medieval alchemists said their color carried philosophical gold.
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When I worked at a Title 1 public school we begged them to get rid of cellphones, made learning impossible
They refused until cellphones were used to capture multiple prison-riot style fights and sex acts in the bathroom that ended up on the news
Schools aren’t banning cellphones because of education, they don’t care
They’re banning them because they’re revealing that public schools are prisons and abuse factories
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
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There’s a reason the great dystopian novels envision a world without literacy. Those books warned about the very age we’re now living in. Those who abandon reading & writing are surrendering their powers of thinking. What’s shocking is that so many would surrender so readily.
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A wonderful remembrance display of over 9000 knitted poppies in the village of Binbrook, Lincolnshire
