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- Found: A Century-Old Train At The Bottom of Lake Superior - After the ships buried beneath cities and farms, we now get this: ”Some wreck hunters recently discovered a locomotive at the bottom of Lake Superior that sank over a century ago.”
- Global Positioning Shift - "Australia, it turns out, is not quite where maps think it is. Thanks to plate tectonics, the island nation is moving north by 1.5 centimeters a year, which means that the entire country is now nearly five feet further north than existing cartography suggests it should be." And it turns out that could be a problem for self-driving vehicles, which won’t be where they think they are.
- The 14 synthesizers that shaped modern music - ”These days it’s easy enough to boot up your cracked copy of Ableton Live or Logic and open any number of VST synthesizers, giving you access to decades of technological innovation. It is however important to know how these sounds took hold in the first place, and why they were so successful… The following list contains a few of the key instruments that helped shape electronic music, from the obvious (the unmistakable Roland TB-303) to the obscure (the humble Alpha Juno 2).”
- I Survived ‘Trump’ Magazine—Barely - Carey Purcell on working for the Republican presidential candidate: ”Bills went unpaid. They turned off the electricity. Our paychecks started bouncing. I got cancer and they canceled my health coverage. Here’s what it was like to work for Donald Trump’s failed magazine.”
- Rise of the Nazi-Grave Robbers - The market for military memorabilia means grave robbing is profitable in Latvia: ”Approximately 350,000 Nazis were cut off here from the rest of the German line in the autumn of 1944, in what became known as the Courland Pocket. In the months that followed, about 100,000 of them were killed.”
- McMansions 101 - Excellent blog devoted to wretchedly bad American house architecture: ”If you love to hate the ugly houses that became ubiquitous before (and after) the bubble burst you've come to the right place.”
- 7 Ways That People Died Trying To Become Immortal - "Would you risk your life if you thought it might mean extending it? Would you die now if you thought you could be revived at some point in the future? Here are cases of people who went to extremes for immortality or their very own fountains of youth — and killed themselves in the process."
- These Mysterious Symbols Have Been in 19 Video Games and No One Knows Why - Patrick Klepek on a rash of strange symbols: ”As it became clear that a larger metagame was taking shape, fans congregated at places like Game Detectives, a subreddit that's become famous for decoding such puzzles… The most recent one was found in You Have to Win the Game, a retro platformer released back in 2012. The sigil was presumably added through a patch at some point, but no one's quite sure, really.”
- I arrived at my friend's party. A few hours later she died, exactly as planned. - Kestrel Pantera attends a friend’s leaving party: ”On June 9, 2016, the End of Life Options Act, a law that allows terminally ill adults to take an aid-in-dying medication, went into effect in California. Three weeks later I got an email from Betsy, an artist at the end of a three-year battle with ALS… She wrote that she was "preparing her departure," which she called "yet another great adventure." She’d met with doctors, filed paperwork, and picked the date when she could self-administer the drug.”
- El Sueno Americano - Tom Kiefer photographs personal possessions confiscated from illegal Mexican immigrants captured at the US border before they are sent back.
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