The Truthiness Shall Set You Freak- New flying reptile species was one of largest ever flying animals
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- My Building Museum
- Haight Ashbury Street Fair Posters
- For Sale: 1939 Porsche Type 64
- Scored a Righteous T @ Haight Ashbury Today
- San Francisco MUNI in the 1970s
- TAKE LSD AND SEE 💡
- An Ex-Army Medic’s Collection
- Astronomers Make Massive Discovery on the Far Side of the Moon | Smithsonian
Author Archives: Stan Flouride
Ode to JOI (Jupiter Orbit Insertion)
What will NASA’s Juno spacecraft find when it reaches Jupiter next Monday? Very little, if Juno does not survive Jupiter Orbit Insertion, a complex series of operations in an unknown environment just above Jupiter’s cloud tops. If successful, as explained in the featured video, … Continue reading
Benefits of drinking coffee outweigh risks, review suggests — ScienceDaily
A review of studies on the health effects of drinking coffee show that moderate coffee drinking (defined as 3-4 cups per day) essentially has a neutral effect on health, or can be mildly beneficial. Source: Benefits of drinking coffee outweigh … Continue reading
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How 100 Syrians, 200 Russians and 11 Dogs Out-Witted ISIS and Saved Palmyra
There was nothing used by Daesh* (ISIS) that the Syrian and Russian ordnance disposal specialists were unfamiliar with. But the breadth and detail of the wiring and explosives Daesh placed hidden among the ruins were found to be very sophisticated. The Daesh … Continue reading
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John Oliver’s Anthem for the EU
In his show last week John included this wonderful anthem, wishing it could have been entered in the contest they held to create an official EU Anthem.
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Every Sperm Whale Alive Today May Have Descended From the Same Female
At some point in the last 80,000 years, became the “mother” of all sperm whales who followed. Though it would make sense to have a single mother in a single area—an ancestor who, say, really loved the Pacific Ocean—this mom’s … Continue reading
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy
For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016 – Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the movement … Continue reading
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V&A · Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970
I am to be part of this exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum because of my work as a Haight Ashbury historian. I have just booked my passage for a two-week stay in London. How have the finished and … Continue reading
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The Tenderloin | Up From The Deep
A WORK IN PROGRESS The architectural data in this section was first researched over twenty-five years ago by the late Anne Bloomfield, and more recently—in depth and with meticulous attention to detail—by Michael Corbett, with whom I worked in 2007-8 on a … Continue reading
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The Sequence of the 19 Largest Cities in History – Business Insider
From 7000 BCE to today, at least 19 cities have led the world in population. Here’s the abridged version of this fascinating chain: Çatalhöyük led the world with 1,000 people by 7000 BCE. Tell Brak led the world with 4,000 people … Continue reading
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New Bloom in My Garden
A rescued cactus has bloomed. I’ll add pictures as it opens.
Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness 