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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Hey can we start a #disabilitySkillz tag?
Anything on the topic of weird or under appreciated skills we have developed thanks to the pressures of our limitations.
If you are having a shit day and can't think think of anything, drop a line anyway. Our kryptonite is often also our superpower, so post your blarg and we'll try and find the flip to booya!
We have so many niche skills n adaptations we have normalized. I think it worth (and holy fuck I need it) highlighting and celebrating 'em.
My second book of 2023, after the new novel SCALE, will be this collection of short stories to be published on 1 May.
[The ebook can be pre-ordered from some of the linked vendors. There’ll be print-on-demand editions too, but they can’t be pre-ordered.]
https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html#SleepAndTheSoul
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
~ Michael Pollan
Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying An EV Charger By Finn Peacock – Chartered Electrical Engineer, Ex-CSIRO, Electric Car Owner, and Founder of SolarQuotes.com.au So you’ve just bought, or plan to buy, a shiny new electric car (AKA Electric Vehicle, or EV). Great choice. But how will you charge it? If you are like most […]
The more than 1.2 million km of fiber-optic cables that crisscross the planet carry the world's phone calls, internet signals and data. But this summer, researchers published the eerie sounds of blue and fin whales detected by a fiber-optic cable on the west coast of Svalbard—a first.
"A primitive writing system used by ice age hunter-gatherers appears to have been uncovered by an amateur archaeologist, who concluded that the 20,000-year-old markings were a form of lunar calendar."
#calendars #IceAgeArr
When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is 8 times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them.
As Sam and his cross-scale colleagues pursue the case, it becomes apparent that Cara’s disappearance is linked to technology with the potential to reshape their whole society, and radically alter the balance of power between the scales.
This lighthouse is SO UNIQUE! It's called Þrídrangar, which means "three rock pillars". It is located 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometres) off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, often described as the most isolated lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse was built there in 1939.
It's such a INCREDIBLE location for a lighthouse, perched on a rock in Iceland's wild surf. Originally constructed and accessible only by scaling the rock on which it is situated, it is now accessible by helicopter since the construction of a helipad.
#photography #photo #photos #landscape #lighthouse #engineering #amazing #travel #world #wonders
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