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Corvid Sapiens Sapiens - Writes stories - Codes databases - she/her - Infrequently inspired
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Today's listening pca.st/episode/1664...

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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread. The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.

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Today's podcast! pca.st/episode/affe...

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📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

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We couldn't do a series of jaunty ocean critter stickers with @ethankocak.com and not do a mantis shrimp. Behold, the final sticker in the series, coming this February, the Precocious Peacock Mantis Shrimp! There's only one way to get them, subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

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Gritty continues to be a real one

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Fed is best. Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)

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Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.

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A List of Things People Blamed on Dancing 🧵

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Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known. 🏺 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

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"Cadbury egg from Hell" pca.st/episode/68ed...

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The only version of this gimmick I will accept

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Become ungovernable

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Margaret Bourke-White, Locks, Sault St. Marie, c. 1929

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We're so back

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Chainmail booty shorts pca.st/episode/a921...

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The one man Pride and Prejudice TT guy made it to NPR. I'm an early adopter!

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Okay, the scale of construction here is just amazing

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I have a sports metaphor story for this! I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads. One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.

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Amazons, gorgons, and how the Punic wars were all Dido's fault pca.st/episode/b185...

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"It's not Survivor, it's 90-Day Fiancé and you KNOW that!" pca.st/episode/a042...

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Podcast of the day! Seal team romance and also a lot of giggling pca.st/episode/8b22...

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My friend Marc Fischer created a project a few years ago which he called a Meal Based Artist Residency program: halfletterpress.com/the-meal-bas... - and I love it because of how simple it is. All of us can do some version of it and call it anything we'd like.

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An #Archaeology flamingo thread in 16 skeets One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos? Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would… /1

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Today's podcast: Processing and also books pca.st/episode/f1a4...

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Good morning Blue sky! Have a science podcast of the day, all about infrastructure : pca.st/episode/141f...

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One Quick Tip for having a better day

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Podcast of the day: "like Angel chasing a rat into a pile of trash..." pca.st/podcast/b945...

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