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  • Egyptian

    TIL (from the amazingly patient Younger Child) that phonetic glyphs were a thing. To celebrate, here’s a nice detailed instruction on how to read those (including determinative glyphs which, of course, I also had no idea about).

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  • The Future

    “The future will be happy.Super-fast trains will go everywhere and all cars will be self-driving.Marine research will be done by whales. Orca-founded start-ups will disrupt and dominate the fishing industry.Walls of fruit trees will rise along every city street.Office towers will become apartments.Robots will do all household chores.VR will become fully immersive.Everyone will have a

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  • Anti-anxiety site

    I keep losing this site and re-finding it, so am going to put it here. I like how the author, Marc Balaban, takes the same basic facts as Sara Teasdale, and turns the conclusion into a positive. (War Time) There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering

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