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Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
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List of people executed for witchcraft - Last execution in 1782
#Comment: Europeans (and their American brothers) keep claiming moral high ground up to this day ("Democracy! Ethics! Science!" etc.) - after systematically killing "witches" and Indigenous people across the globe for thousands of years, up to very recently. A horrible bad joke that nobody wants to hear.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust - Paper by Ken Thompson (1984)
"To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software."
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"Interest rates and the rise of Neofeudalism"
Historian Paul Schmelzing recently published an exceptional working paper on eight centuries of global real and nominal interest rates, from 1311 to 2018.
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Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text (nytimes)
An exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, “Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing From Hieroglyphs to the Emoji” highlights the seemingly obvious, but complicated, relationship between the iconic communication system from antiquity and the lingua franca of the cyber age.
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The Citadel of Bam (ارگ بم) - Kerman Province, Iran. The largest adobe building in the world.
The Arg-e Bam also known as Bam Citadel, traced back to at least the Achaemenide Empire (sixth to fourth centuries BC). This is how it looks after the 2003 earthquake. 70% of all buildings plus the citadel itself was destroyed. The citadel was rebuilt in 2016.
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Hans Henrik Ágost Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1921 – 2002)
An industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title and heir to a German fortune, a legal resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared second residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a long-time resident of Spain, and son of a German father and a Hungarian and English American mother. His fifth and last wife, Carmen "Tita" Cervera, is a former Miss Spain titleholder.
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The Quimbaya artifacts are several dozen golden objects, found in Colombia, made by the Quimbaya civilization, dated around 1000 CE, a few of which are supposed to represent modern airplanes, and therefore to be out-of-place artifacts. In 1994, German researchers created simplified radio-controlled scale models of these objects and showed that their models, which lack some convoluted features present in the real figurines, could fly.
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Silk Road Adventures
In 1935 the British Consul Eric Teichman leaves his post in Beijing and sets out for Chinese Turkestan, before returning to England through India. His journey from Beijing to India lasts for four months. He crosses Suiyuan by train and travels through Inner and Outer Mongolia, the Gobi desert, Hami, Urumchi, Turfan, and Karashar on a motor truck, from Kashgar to Gilgit on horseback and on foot, and finally takes a plane to Delhi. Some great photographs taken during this journey from Hunza are to be found in book. (via)
