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The ink that Bach used 🎼✍️
“Bach composed without a wig. If we look at the many hairs recorded in ink, we must be able to count any head lice. His scores are big free, with the exception of this fly. The little body impaled on a stem adds a triad sounding diabolically, although its alkaline…
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‘Epic Fart’ Loosened Up NY Players Before Pacers G5 ☄️
“…a moment of flatulence before the game gave them the gas that propelled them to the blowout victory.” “After the success of Tuesday’s game, perhaps a pregame release will become a tradition for the Knicks as they try to extend their playoff run.” 💨💪🏀 [Go Knicks!]
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the raw milk black market: quick, easy, and unchecked by the FDA
“It’s Friday, May 10, and I’m on my way to what feels like the world’s weirdest drug deal. I received a text the day before from a man named Karl. My order would be arriving from Maryland between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Northwest D.C. drop site. It’ll…
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AMERICA’S NEVER-ENDING BATTLE AGAINST FLESH-EATING WORMS
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease “Screwworms once killed millions of dollars’ worth of cattle a year in the southern U.S. Their range extended from Florida to California, and they infected any living, warm-blooded animal: not only cattle but deer,…
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Excerpt from Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood”
…an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. “I am told that this saturnine image initiates a strain of melancholy tied to a peculiarly German notion of modernity, culminating in Max Weber’s idea of the “iron cage,” where we are captive to the rules of rationality. For the French,…
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The Ambling Mind
new Convivial Society essay 🚶🚶♀️🚶♂️🚷 “…there is a scale of activity and experience appropriate to the human animal and things tend to go well for us when we mind it.” “Both writing and waking, each in their own way, seem to calibrate the tempo of our minds to the rhythm…
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Caterbot or Robatapillar?
“Scientists have taken a cue from nature’s fuzziest insects, creating a caterpillar-like robot that can bend and twist when navigating mazes. This new technology owes its flexibility to the art of origami, which influenced the design of this innovative soft robot. Soft robots are challenging models to move around because adding…
Motus Mundi 