Category: General
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Keith Jarrett and the Koln Concert
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975) (Open Culture)
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Byrne’s Euclid
The First Six Books ofThe Elements of EuclidWith Coloured Diagrams and Symbols A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux
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Lilies & Roses Restored illustrations of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
From Open Culture:Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and…
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Leaving Stripe
I did the thing you’re not supposed to do. I quit my job at Stripe without another lined up.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Open Access
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is making all public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes, it announced today. The new Open Access policy also introduces partnerships between the museum and Creative Commons, Wikimedia, Artstor, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Art Resource, and Pinterest. https://www.metmuseum.org/policies/image-resourcesTo identify these images, look for the…
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The Human Rights concerts
The “Human Rights Concerts” is the collective name of the series of concerts presented by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization Amnesty International in the years 1986-1998. 2013 is the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the Magna Carta of the human race that inspires Amnesty International.…
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Foundation universe – Wikipedia
The foreword to Prelude to Foundation contains the chronological ordering of Asimov’s science fiction books. Asimov stated that the books of his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series “offer a kind of history of the future, which is, perhaps, not completely consistent, since I did not plan consistency, to begin with.” Asimov also noted that the books in his list “were not…
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An artist confronts photos of her father’s past lovers
London-based photographer Caroline Furneaux faced these questions after sifting through boxes of her father’s 35mm slides in the years following his sudden death in his 70s. She’d had a complex relationship with him, and felt as if his death in 2011 left things unresolved, she explained in a phone call. She let the archive sit for some…
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Come il riscaldamento climatico ha cambiato l’Italia
è sparito il freddo, Roma mai più sotto zero, a Milano boom di notti tropicali. Quarant’anni di rilevazioni ora per ora: così il riscaldamento climatico ha cambiato il nostro Paese. I dati choc città per città, raccolti da ilMeteo.it per il Corriere. Rieti la peggiore (+4 gradi di aumento medio). Al Nord le giornate di…
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50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone ranks the 50 best live albums ever, from Jimi Hendrix at Monterey to Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
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The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons
Eleven Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have been withheld from syndication since the nineteen-sixties due to their content.
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Barrett, footnote 2, or Why Mr. Smith should stay in Washington
Across the history of Supreme Court opinions, some cases are known more for a footnote than for a holding. If the nation is lucky, Jack Smith will follow the cue in footnote 2 of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s concurrence in Trump v. United States, allowing us to forget the mess that is the rest of that…
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Cammino Retico
Un itinerario di sette giorni attraverso suggestivi paesaggi seguendo le tracce dell’antico popolo Retico.Il percorso attraversa altipiani, valli, e borghi montani, toccando luoghi storici come il santuario di San Vittore e Corona, il fiordo Feltrino del lago del Corlo e la città murata di Feltre.
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Da Milano a Lecco in bicicletta, pedalando tra la Martesana e l’Adda
due splendidi percorsi nel verde – la ciclabile della Martesana e la pista ciclabile dell’Adda – che rendono possibile arrivare da Milano a Lecco in bicicletta in un solo giorno
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Trekking da fare in estate e autunno: i dieci cammini più belli (e freschi) d’Italia
Una selezione di cammini da fare in Italia in estate e autunno, da Nord a Sud passando per il Centro Italia, tra montagne suggestive, valli estese, dolci colline o percorsi vista mare. Si possono percorrere a piedi (o in bicicletta) tutto l’anno, ma si consiglia di sceglierli tra settembre e ottobre per godere appieno di…
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Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Greatest Songs
From British blues to California rock, from smooth sunshine to the most haunting breakup epics ever
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Le 4P, pane, pasta, pizza, patate: ecco da dove viene (davvero) il sovrappeso
Lo scienziato Valter Longo e la nuova rubrica dedicata alla salute e all’alimentazione. Quali sono gli zuccheri più pericolosi?
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions are soaring thanks to AI
AI systems need lots of computers to make them work. The data centers needed to run them, essentially warehouses full of powerful computing equipment, suck up tons of energy to process data and manage the heat all of those computers produce. The end result has been that Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have soared 48% since 2019,…
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Pork’s Dirty Secret: The nation’s top hog producer is also one of America’s worst polluters
Original article on Rolling Stone magazine, December 2006:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters Also:https://www.oliveridley.org/2007/01/04/rolling-stone-magazine-expose-on-the-pork-industry/
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6 giugno 1944: cronaca dall’inferno di Omaha Beach
Ottant’anni fa lo sbarco alleato sulle coste della Francia occupata dai nazisti avrebbe segnato la svolta nelle sorti della Seconda guerra mondiale. Ma costò un prezzo umano altissimo: alla fine dell’Operazione Overlord gli americani dovettero seppellire 9387 soldati
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«World’s 101 best steak restaurants», i 7 locali italiani premiati. Il primo? In Toscana
Si trova a Saturnia, in provincia di Grosseto, il miglior ristorante di carne in Italia secondo la classifica delle più prestigiose steakhouse al mondo. Ed è solo uno di sette. Ecco gli altri
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