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This building looks, uh …

Inside the making of the world’s longest cantilever

#architecture #cantilever #Dubai

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Into the woods, Doug Eng

#photography #trees #Doug Eng #Douglas Eng

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I really, really wish photography instruction videos on YouTube weren’t all like, 95% “hey look at my masterpiece” and 5% actual useful content. Blech.

#photography #YouTube #gripes

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“Disproportionate.” Some people just really have a death wish. For the entire planet. Jesus.

#Israel #Iran #news #war escalation

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Tax-advantaged savings has become a staple of the American retirement system, with 60 million savers squirreling away $6.6 trillion in their 401(k)s, alone. … [But] that success now vexes many retirement experts, alarmed by how easily Congress acquiesces to tax breaks for retirement savings that disproportionately help the wealthy while treating the benefits relied upon by most retirees — Social Security and Medicare — as budget-busters ripe for reform. … The latest expansion of private retirement savings comes at a time when Social Security, which the majority of American seniors rely on to cover basic living expenses, faces insolvency in 2034. Secure 2.0 sailed through Congress shortly before lawmakers convened working groups to try to fix Social Security’s $119 billion cash shortfall, which amounted to less than half of a single year’s worth of tax benefits for retirement savings that mostly go to higher earners. … The success of the retirement industry and its advocates in Congress has put a sinkhole in the federal budget at a time when entitlements are under threat. While the cost to the Treasury for tax-advantaged retirement savings was $81 billion in 1995, it has since swelled to over $369 billion in 2023 and, in the wake of Secure 1.0 and 2.0, is expected to nearly double to $659 billion in 2027.

#401k #401(k) #Social Security #retirement savings #lobbying #long reads #SECURE Act #SECURE 1.0 #SECURE 2.0

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Picture! (From the original Reddit post):

“The item found in the travertine floors could have been something that died around the spring or died somewhere else and was washed into the region and covered in the travertine. Those are the two most likely scenarios,” [Dr. Andrew Leier, chair of the Geological Society of America’s sedimentary geology division] explains. But is it a human jaw? “It absolutely looks like one,” say Amber D. Riley, MS, RDH, the immediate past president of American Society of Forensic Odontology, and Anthony R. Cardoza, DDS, a forensic dentistry consultant, in a joint email to AD. The arch shape and tooth anatomy appear human, but perhaps the most unusual finding is that it looks like the person may have had dental work done. “There appear to be absent teeth and the bone tissue has filled into where the teeth once were. Another human potentially intervened and removed teeth due to injury or disease,” they explain.

😬😬😬

#travertine #fossil #fossils #human fossil #ancient dentistry #mandible

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“The item found in the travertine floors could have been something that died around the spring or died somewhere else and was washed into the region and covered in the travertine. Those are the two most likely scenarios,” [Dr. Andrew Leier, chair of the Geological Society of America’s sedimentary geology division] explains. But is it a human jaw? “It absolutely looks like one,” say Amber D. Riley, MS, RDH, the immediate past president of American Society of Forensic Odontology, and Anthony R. Cardoza, DDS, a forensic dentistry consultant, in a joint email to AD. The arch shape and tooth anatomy appear human, but perhaps the most unusual finding is that it looks like the person may have had dental work done. “There appear to be absent teeth and the bone tissue has filled into where the teeth once were. Another human potentially intervened and removed teeth due to injury or disease,” they explain.

😬😬😬

#travertine #fossil #fossils #human fossil #ancient dentistry #geology

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People have long hated Renoir. The loathing has both moral and aesthetic substance. On moral grounds, Renoir’s innumerable dumb-faced, unflattering female nudes have seen him posthumously charged with sexism. Adding to the ignominy was his anti-Semitism, as shown by his stance in the Dreyfus affair. And yet even the aesthetic charges are somewhat personal. Renoir, a ceramicist by training, fell in with [artists] who would become part of the Impressionist movement. Bold color and depictions of modern life were in. Formalism, florid rococo details, and grand mythological scenes were out. The problem was, Renoir quite liked these old things—“I am of the 18th century,” he once said—and when times got financially tough, he backtracked and began painting saccharine, bourgeois portraits. It made him rich, an international star even. In short, he’s seen as a sellout.

I knew a Renoir hater. Didn’t know this was an entire movement.

Critics argue Renoir paid no attention to line or composition (he painted as though on a pot, the charge runs)

Well, he did say “I paint with my prick,” so there’s that.

#Renoir #Pierre-Auguste Renoir #painting #art #Renoir Sucks at Painting #impressionism

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Yeah, what's up with that.

The Palm Beach Post, Florida, November 30, 1942

#sleep #sleeping

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I don’t understand people who buy low-fat milk and then eat bacon for breakfast.

#if you're going to commit #then commit #food #milk #low fat milk #bacon

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!!!

#OJ Simpson #O.J. Simpson #O. J. Simpson #news

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In the deep corners of a grocery store, cabbages grow eyes.

#grocery store #supermarket #food #cabbage #napa cabbage #surveillance

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This is inspiring. Serious, I mean it.

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

#eclipse #solar eclipse #Waffle House #inspiration #photography #Nashville #Tennessee

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Man, if we didn't know better, I'd say the moon's shadow when viewed from space looks almost apocalyptic.

And, videos!

ETA: If my map-reading skills are right, the top image is looking (roughly) northwest over New Brunswick, Canada, with the western tip of Prince Edward Island on the lower-right corner and the Bay of Fundy along the bottom.

#NASA #space #astronomy #eclipse #solar eclipse #GOES satellite #NOAA #New Brunswick #International Space Station

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Solar eclipse seen above the Washington Monument | Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

#eclipse #solar eclipse #Washington Monument #Chip Somodevilla

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Astronomers Without Borders will be collecting gently-used eclipse glasses from the U.S. and Canada [to redistribute them] to people in other countries for upcoming eclipses. … Thanks to a partnership with Astronomers Without Borders, glasses can be dropped off at all Warby Parker locations across the country for recycling. Eclipse Glasses USA is also taking donations for two programs, though only one focuses on reusing existing glasses. … The eclipse glasses will be sent to schools in Latin America so that children will be able to view the October 2024 annular eclipse. For more information about where to ship the glasses to, read here.

#eclipse #eclipse glasses #Warby Parker #Eclipse Glasses USA #recycling

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So how is it that Wikipedia can put up a high-res scan of this image but The Met can't (or won't)?

Eugène Atget | Eclipse, 1912

This photograph is taken from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s dated incorrectly to 1911 as there were no solar eclipses visible from Paris that year. The Museum of Modern Art, however, correctly dates it to April 17, 1912.

#Eugene Atget #Eugène Atget #eclipse #solar eclipse #art #photography #Metropolitan Museum of Art #Wikipedia