via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
November 1942
“Chicago, Illinois. South classification yard seen from retarder operators’ tower at an Illinois Central Railroad yard”
Medium format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information
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Color Zen is a Relaxing, Addictive Puzzle Game
via How-To-Geek
Are you ready to journey into an abstract world of colors and shapes? Then welcome to Color Zen, a relaxing puzzle game with no scores and no penalties for failure…just simple rules, intuitive controls, and awesome puzzles to keep you busy for hours on end.
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NB. Costs $0.99
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Theoretical physicists, enamored of mathematical elegance, impose patterns on muddled reality. Is this a science or a genre of storytelling?… more
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Why are People Right-Handed or Left-Handed?
via How-To-Geek
Have you ever wondered why people have a preference for using one hand over the other? What is it that determines hand dominance? Is it because of evolution, is it hereditary, or due to something else? SciShow takes a quick look at the topic in this terrific video.
Why Are There Righties & Lefties? [YouTube]
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Your Beliefs Make You Healthy. You Just Need to Believe in Them
via Big Think by Andrew Newberg
Research that has shown the potential benefit of being a religious or spiritual person is a population-based answer. In other words, the overall population does a little bit better, but that has no implication for each individual.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
An octopus experiences the world as bright and tasty. Or so we think. Does imagining yourself as an alien creature reveal something about your own mental life?… more
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For a Better Night's Sleep, Should Couples Sleep in Different Beds?
via Big Think by Orion Jones
In search of a good night’s rest, couples are increasingly sleeping in separate beds, according to sociological surveys and architectural ledgers of new homes being built, an increasing number of which contain two master bedrooms.
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Daily Coffee Prevents Disease, Helps You Live Longer
via Big Think by Orion Jones
Several recent health studies confirm that people who drink one to three cups of coffee per day have a lower risk of contracting certain diseases, including dementia, and are more likely to live longer than those who abstain from the caffeinated drink. “In a 2012 study of humans, researchers...tested the blood levels of caffeine in older adults with mild cognitive impairment...and then re-evaluated them two to four years later. Participants with little or no caffeine circulating in their bloodstreams were far more likely to have progressed to full-blown Alzheimer’s than those whose blood indicated they’d had about three cups’ worth of caffeine.”
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Is time an absolute construct or merely a matter of perspective?
The theoretical physicist Lee Smolin offers an unsettling answer… more
Why raindrops don't kill mosquitoes
via BoingBoing by Maggie Koerth-Baker
For a mosquito, every summer storm is like a million Volkswagen Beetles falling from the sky. How do they survive the deadly deluge?
Meghan Cetera explains at Popular Science.
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