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How to enjoy coffee | Psyche Guides

by Jessica Easto Smooth like chocolate or fruity like a berry, coffee has as many tastes as wine or beer – you just need to know your beans   Need to know Coffee hasn’t always received the attention it deserves. … Continue reading

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Artist Thierry Mandon Lives in Suspended Domestic Scenes Within the Ghost Rooms of Severed Buildings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021. GRACE EBERT “Tableau vivant” (2007-2008). All images © Thierry Mandon Multidisciplinary artist Thierry Mandon casts himself as the subject of his satirical works as he reads in a bed hazardously suspended feet above the ground or sips a … Continue reading

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Librarian Saved Thousands of Historical Manuscripts From Being Destroyed | My Modern Met

By Madeleine Muzdakis on September 12, 2021 Manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Centre, Timbuktu, in 2013. (Photo: UNESCO via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) A librarian named Abdel Kader Haidara secretly saved hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from being … Continue reading

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How Do We Name Generations?

[…] SOURCES AND FURTHER READING The Generations: https://www.careerplanner.com/Career-… Generation On Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/gener… Generation On Collin’s Dictionary: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic… A Comprehensive List Of Generation Names: https://www.thoughtco.com/names-of-ge… The Cons Of Each Generation: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-… Generation Nicknames: https://www.businessballs.com/glossar… Why Are American Soldiers Called GIs?: https://www.history.com/news/why-are-… … Continue reading

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Britain’s Secret Nuclear Plans (and Bunker): What Happens if the UK Gets Nuked? – TLDR News

[…] Every country has them, but hopes to never need them; nuclear plans. So in this video we dive into what would happen if Britain was hit by a nuclear weapon, the response, the secret bunker and the secret documents. … Continue reading

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Fishing on the Russia-China border | Primorsky Krai | How we perceive the Russian culture here

Hi guys! On my channel I told you a lot about my hometown, Spassk, located in Primorsky Krai in the very South-East of Russia. Well, now let’s explore the nearby area and visit the village of Novosel’skoye! There we will … Continue reading

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‘I’ll be at front of queue to change my slave name’

By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Hague For more than three centuries the Dutch shipped more than half a million Africans across the Atlantic Descendants of African slaves have told the BBC they will change their surnames, after a Dutch … Continue reading

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Manipulating plant genes…through grafting!

If you plant a seed from your orange, you might have to wait as long as 15 years to get a tree with fruit, which is kind of a bummer for the impatient types among us. Fortunately, there’s an age-old … Continue reading

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How Caffeine Addiction Changed History (ft. Michael Pollan) | WIRED

90% of the world’s adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of “This Is Your Mind On Plants,” explains why. Michael goes into the history of coffee … Continue reading

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What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?

to dive into our collection of spores, molds, and fungus! Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4U… Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music … Continue reading

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