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By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of using yakhchāls (ice pit) to create ice in the winter and store it in the summer in the desert. Yakhchāl is an ancient type of evaporative cooler. Above ground, the structure had a domed shape, but had a subterranean storage space.
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2.5 billion T. rex inhabited the planet, researchers say
The number is staggering: 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived and died during the roughly 2.4 million years the species survived on the planet, according to a new study set to be published in the journal Science on Friday. The study may help contextualize the fossil record and the rarity of finding certain fossilized prehistoric organisms, according to lead researcher Charles Marshall, director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
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Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence - J.C.R. Licklider’s proposals for “man-machine symbiosis” led to the invention of the Internet
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production." - Robert Anton Wilson
#Technology #Augmentation #Robot #ML #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
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The oldest door still in use in Rome
Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian's rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD. Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person.
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At what point will the general public start to call the situation World War 3?
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Slogans under the railway bridge in Jena, Germany (12.01.1990)
"Supporters of President Donald Trump holding QAnon signs began massing by the thousands in Beverly Hills-California during 2020 election."
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Gazu hyakki tsurezurebukuro (百器徒然袋, "Illustrated Bag of 100 Random Demons") (1805)
