Mildly interesting
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@Horace Interesting video. There was an article where the conclusion was that humans ourselves are not getting faster - it is just the things listed in the video which has improved the speeds.
wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 00:45 last edited by@taiwan_girl I was surprised the difference was not greater. The world's fastest 50 year old today could probably not beat the world's fastest any year old 100 years ago.
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wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 01:00 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Nov 2025, 01:01
Broadway and 61st street, 1899.
Same intersection today.
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Wish my great great ancestors had purchased a bunch of land there. LOL
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Boy Scout outing in Chappaqua, NY in 1918.
Chappaqua is ~10mi north of me where the Clinton’s live.
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Yeah they do but it took me a minute. Those flat metal pieces go through a slot in the bottom horizontal bar. If you slide either of them out you can slide the bar out. Both locks need to be secured to prevent sliding them out.
wrote on 11 Mar 2025, 11:10 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah they do but it took me a minute. Those flat metal pieces go through a slot in the bottom horizontal bar. If you slide either of them out you can slide the bar out. Both locks need to be secured to prevent sliding them out.
I think the design idea generalizes to an arbitrary number of locks.
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A little bit nsfw, but soooo cool. Baby birthed in an intact amniotic sac
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Amazing how peaceful they looked, before being introduced to air. I guess it was the air that set them off.
#FuckAir
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Smallest (official) park:
In Japan, 2.6 square feet (0.24 squares meter).
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Cockpit of a Concorde.
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Caravaggio.
The freckles look a little off this close up (though I bet they look great a little further away). But damn. Look at that detail. The little moisture in the corner of the eye. The curvature of the nostril. Amazing.
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Snowy owl with stunning colors captured in photographs. Now experts argue over how the colors came about.
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wrote on 22 Mar 2025, 14:57 last edited by
Good short video on piano practice.
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wrote on 22 Mar 2025, 15:01 last edited by
This video answers the commonly asked question, why are Trump voters as awesome as great white sharks?
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Good short video on piano practice.
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wrote on 22 Mar 2025, 16:25 last edited by@Horace Re: piano video
Common sense, but nice to see it put down in one place.
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