Category: General
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A Poetic Cabin Might Signal the Future for a Small Icelandic Village
Pálmar Kristmundsson’s unique getaway on the grounds of a defunct concrete factory just might be the catalyst that reinvigorates a struggling community
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Learn Lightroom
Make basic edits to adjust lighting and color Start with an auto adjustment and then fine tune the brightness, contrast, and color in a photo.https://www.adobe.com/learn/lightroom-cc/web/adjust-image-lighting-color-lightroom-cc?learnIn=1 Notes:Double click on a slider to reset that slider to default Light panel Exposure: overall brightness Highlights and Shadows: work on bright and dark areas Whites and Blacks: work on…
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Fabrizio Bernini, il figlio di una trovatella diventato imprenditore di successo: «Se ce l’ho fatta io, possono farcela tutti»
Fabrizio Bernini, 67 anni, presidente di Confindustria Toscana sud, titolare di un’azienda con circa 500 dipendenti che fattura 700 milioni:«Mio padre era alcolizzato, ho iniziato a lavorare smontando e rimontando radio, tv ed elettrodomestici. Poi inventammo il il robot Ambrogio per tagliare l’erba dei prati»
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Open Access at The Met
Data about The Met collection, including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use. Browse more than 492,000 Open Access works in The Online Collection by selecting the Open Access filter in search. All Open Access images also have an “OA” icon, , at the lower left of the image.
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The Voynich Manuscript
There are countless objects that defy understanding, but the Voynich manuscript is perhaps one of the most confounding. Named after the rare books collector Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the manuscript continues to baffle skilled cryptologists to this day. In fact, it’s never even been deciphered.
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Meta Field Block plugin – Display custom fields as a block
Display a custom field as a block on the front end. It supports custom fields for posts, terms, and users. It supports ACF fields explicitly.
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This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests
HyaPak Ecotech Limited, founded by Joseph Nguthiru, began life as a final year project by the former Egerton University civil and environmental engineering student. Nguthiru and his classmates experienced the problem of water hyacinths firsthand on a field trip to Lake Naivasha in 2021, when their boat became trapped for five hours. They returned determined to…
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The worst thing LA could do as it recovers from fire disaster
I’m scared that we’re going to rebuild LA more or less the same way, without using this as an opportunity to rethink how LA is built and reinvest in important public infrastructure like better water supply systems, as well as coming up with a strategy to force a retreat from building in the most risky…
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These people stopped procrastinating. You can too with this advice, they say
Finch often stayed in bed until just one minute before his first video meeting of the day. After it was over, he’d crawl back into bed as he cried over not understanding why his dream job had turned into a nightmare he just couldn’t push through, he said. Those circumstances eventually turned into the worst…
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La prima puntata di Quark
Il 18 marzo 1981, oltre quarant’anni fa, andava in onda sulla Rai, in seconda serata, la prima puntata di “Quark”, lo storico programma di Piero Angela di divulgazione scientifica, tecnologica, naturalistica, alimentare, umanistica alla portata di tutti. Ecco la copertina della puntata, dalle Teche Rai.
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Jeff Koons Doesn’t Get It
While Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. But perhaps I’m missing the point — after all, why would Koons turn around to face the chill of the infinite universe, when he has the whole world in the…
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The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life
Somehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse.
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Store your iPhone backup on the cloud with Dropbox
use Dropbox as your main storage for all of your devices. We’ll discuss that further below but, for now, let’s look at how to store an iPhone backup on Dropbox. To upload a backup file to Dropbox, first back up your data to your computer by following the iTunes backup process mentioned earlier. Once you…
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Watch the First 2 Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV certainly hoped it would…
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Tex n.109-113 “Chinatown”
In quest’avventura, Gianluigi Bonelli recuperava l’argomento – e gli avversari – di una storia precedente (contenuta nei n.46 e 47, come ben spiegato nella nostra scheda storica): quindi ci sarebbero stati di nuovo una setta cinese, complici messicani, sparatorie eccetera eccerera. Quanto bastava, insomma, per aspettare freneticamente l’uscita dei nuovi albi della ristampa “Tre Stelle”, che il fratello…
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Il clima di Qom, sei mesi dopo la rivoluzione, nel quale si è svolta l’intervista
Il giorno in cui si autoproclamò capo supremo delle forze armate, una valanga di militari a riposo marciò con mezzi improvvisati sul Kurdistan per obbedire al suo ordine, cogliendo di sorpresa l’esercito. E’ stata una rivoluzione religiosa, non libertaria, ed è troppo prestoper dire se è fallita. Le donne non possono farsi pettinare da parrucchieri…
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L’intervista di Oriana Fallaci a Khomeini
Durante l’intervista esclusiva dell’inviata del Corriere, pubblicata il 26 settembre 1979, Fallaci si tolse il velo definendolo«cencio medievale» e parlò di«segregazione». «Il chador? Porta quell’abito chi ha fatto la rivoluzione», disse Khomeini. «Non sono persone eleganti e truccate come lei, in giro tutte scoperte con dietro un codazzo di uomini»
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Dune Genesis by Frank Herbert
This essay was originally published in the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster. Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to…
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Elizabeth Kolbert: «La sesta estinzione è in corso»
ll suo nome, Elizabeth Kolbert, può non essere noto ai più, nonostante sia la firma di punta del prestigioso settimanale americano New Yorker in tema di ambiente e clima e abbia vinto anche il premio Pulitzer. Il suo libro La Sesta estinzione, però, è considerato oggi una delle pietre miliari in tema di cambiamento climatico e molto di più: uscito…
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Litany against Fear
“I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”