Bait and switch

The crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void.

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A 2020 mood

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These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve

The early trickle of new coronavirus infections has turned into a steady current. By creating simple simulations, we can see how to slow it down.

Even with different results, moderate social distancing will usually outperform the attempted quarantine, and extensive social distancing usually works best of all.

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https://www.weforum.org/global-risks

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Adam Curtis: Watch The BBC Filmmaker's 5 Best Documentaries

If you want to learn the history of how we got to where we are today, I have found no better documentarian and storyteller than the BBC's Adam Curtis.

If you want to gain a deeper sense of why we’re in the mess we’re in today and how it might be fixed, I highly recommend watching these 5 documentary films made by Adam Curtis.

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An MIT researcher says we should trash all our recyclable plastic, and he's probably right

MIT researcher Andrew McAfee says we shouldn't be wasting time recycling plastic and instead focus on better regulation and nuclear power.

"They want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around your light bulbs, around your straws, and around your cheeseburgers, when 70% of the pollution — of the carbon that we're throwing into the air — comes from three industries."

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Legendary concept artist and futurist Syd Mead, famous for his work on movies like Blade Runner and Tron, has died.

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Owners of Noah’s Ark replica sue over Act of God

Was it an act of God? Or, an insurance company that won't pay a claim. Whatever it is, the owner of the life-size replica of Noah's Ark in northern Kentucky has sued its insurers for refusing to cover rain damage. Yes, rain.

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Ancient Earth

Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth's history.

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One Page Dungeon by watabou

One page dungeon generator

Nothing here is created by hand, everything is built and drawn procedurally.

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Russian troll struggling to be more bigoted than typical internet user

A RUSSIAN professional troll is finding it hard to be more bigoted than British online commenters who do it for free, he has revealed.

St Petersburg-based Petrov said: “My job is to post lies and propaganda to weaken Europe, but sometimes I wonder why I bother with all these twats spouting rubbish themselves.

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Hi. I am very much looking forward to your Good Omens series, all the trailers and promos look amazing. From what I have seen it looks like my children would love to watch too, but I was just wondering if there are any bits that I should watch out for as potentially not suitable for younger viewers. Thank you.

I tried to make something that would work as well for those under, say, twenty as it would for those over. So it has two shots of naked people seen from behind (one in the Garden of Eden, one in a Welsh commune). It has three swear words, each intentionally deployed, but nothing they won’t have heard if anyone around them has ever banged a thumb with a hammer. Beyond that, there’s the tragic murder of a cartoon bunny rabbit by a demon in episode 4, a lot of maggots in episode 5, and things get scary – although no scarier than you’d find in an episode of, say, Doctor Who, in episodes 5 and 6.

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Here you can generate a random fantasy settlement based off of geomorphs created by Risus Monkey or you can create a village based off of geomorphs created by Stonewerks. Simply decide the size of map (or how many buildings you have on your own map), whether you want all of the houses filled with citizens, and what type of kindred live in this settlement.

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Digitized board games from the collections of the National Library of Finland ranging from the 1810’s to 1940’s.