Yeah. I grew up near one of Germany’s largest open-pit lignite mines. Had a tour of the mighty Bagger 293 as a kid and was allowed to touch some coal.

In the entire EU it is this weekend

The little aquatic drone that could

Are we sure we’re doing Ea-Nasir justice? Perhaps he was a perfectly fine copper salesman but had a weird and totally unhinged customer review (or complaint) he found funny displayed in his home.

If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked

Lower decks holodeck episode in the style of the Moriarty episodes?

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With my first prepaid phone in Germany texts did cost 0.49 € per text. So I did not use them super often. Years later around 2011 that price had decreased to 0.15€ and I was texting friends a lot during uni. Around the same time me and my friends got our first smartphones with contracts for 30-40€ per month that included a small bit of data (below 1Gb). Texts still did cost 0.15€, but the data for a WhatsApp message was in the low kilobytes. So a lot of people switched to WhatsApp

With a skeptical brow raised, the count begrudgingly sipped from a glass of Coca-Cola, a recently invented American beverage vastly different from the Romanian wines of his cellar. “Passable,” he muttered under his breath, with a reluctant nod, betraying centuries of noble pride. Yet, as the night unfolded, a subtle smile crept over his pale face.

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Sure, theoretically normal sickdays are capped to six weeks, but you do not have to collect your sick days in a sick day account like the Americans. You get a doctor’s notice and then have an official sickday. After the six weeks you can still get Krankengeld which is paid by the statutory health insurance.

And on average the 39,5 hours work week and 25-30 vacation days per year. Also unlimited payed sick days.

Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.

With the 1966 labour share of income you probably would be working way less (or making way more)

That’s in Mali. Old Timbuktu manuscripts from one of the oldest universities in the Islamic world

Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

“Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?” is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

EDIT: Michael Sveda’s discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937

The Buddhas of Bamiyan are the extreme case, where the local rulers destroyed cultural heritage. There are also some items that can not reasonably been repatriated. But there are hundereds of items from Greece, Turkey, Egypt or reltively stable former colonies in museums in Western Europe. And then even famous institutions like the British museum manage to loose precious items.

Na, I just found the acronym funny, so no idea how it’s actually supposed to work. but there are lot’s of different well-cited papers that propose PAWGs.

I was a strong e-reader user for a few years around 2012, but have gone back to paper books. I like the feel of them and also like having books as physical objects in my big book shelfs in my living room. It’s a bit of the decoration and signaling aspect of it too. Yet from pure practicality the e-reader was way more convenient.