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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Jules of Nature
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cherry valley forever

if i look back, i am lost
we're not kids anymore.
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Suggestions, lists, distractions and quarantine diaries from our reporters, critics and editors.
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https://twitter.com/SanNuvola/status/1261010632805146624?s=20
Library Classification
Prelinger Library
The library is unusual in that it uses a custom system of organization designed by Megan that intends to facilitate and emphasize browsing. For example, the section on "Suburbia" is next to the section on "Domestic Environments", then "Architecture", which becomes "Graphic Design", which in turn leads to "Typography" and "Fine Arts", and then "Advertising" and "Sales". There is no Dewey Decimal ClassificationĀ system or card catalog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelinger_Library
The beautiful ruby slippers in the 1939 movie version of The Wizard of Oz don't exist at all in L. Frank Baum's book. That's because the original slippers were silver. They were changed to ruby slippers in the movie to take advantage of the marvels of Technicolor, still a new technology at the time.
Fiat money
Fiat money is a currency without intrinsic value that has been established as money, often by government regulation. Fiat money does not have use value, and has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value.[1] It was introduced as an alternative to commodity money and representative money. Commodity money is created from a good, often a precious metal such as gold or silver, which has uses other than as a medium of exchange (such a good is called a commodity). Representative money is similar to fiat money, but it represents a claim on a commodity (which can be redeemed to a greater or lesser extent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Wizard of Oz and Bimetalism
Baum did not offer any conclusive proof that he intended his novel to be a political allegory. Historian Ranjit S. Dighe wrote that for 60 years after the book's publication, "virtually nobody" had such an interpretation until Henry Littlefield, a high-school teacher.[34] In his 1964 American Quarterly article, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism",[35] Littlefield posited that the book contained an allegory of the late 19th-century bimetallism debate regarding monetary policy.[36]
Littlefield's thesis achieved some support, but has been strenuously attacked by others.[37][38][39]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism
David Graeber pg. 52Ā
As with the Greenbackers, one of the main constituencies for the movement was debtors: particularly, Midwestern families such as Dorothyās, who had been facing a massive wave of foreclosures during the severe recessionĀ of the 1890s. According to the Populist reading, the Wicked Witches of the East and West represent the East and West Coast bankers (promoters of and benefactors from the tight money supply), the scarecrow represented the farmers (who didnāt have the brains to avoid the debt trap), the Tin Woodsman was the industrial proletariatĀ (who didnāt have the heart to act in solidarity with the farmers), The cowardly lion represented the political class (who didnāt have the courage to intervene). The yellow brick road, silver slippers, emerald city, and hapless Wizard presumably speak fro themselves.Ā āOzā is of course the standard abbreviation forĀ āounceā.Ā
https://www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Wizard_of_Oz_Littlefield.pdf
Thereās no way to make ends meet in the arts, where part-time work is the new normal. But how best to manage the side-hustle?
David Graeber Debt
Arthur Samuel and Machine Learning
Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 ā July 29, 1990)[3] was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[1] He coined the term "machine learning" in 1959.[4] The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI).[5] He was also a senior member in the TeX community who devoted much time giving personal attention to the needs of users and wrote an early TeX manual in 1983.[6]
ViaĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel
Svalbard
Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° eastlongitude.
ViaĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
Visa-free zone
Svalbard Seed Vault
https://www.croptrust.org/our-work/svalbard-global-seed-vault/
By Miksu - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61440471
Gabrielās Horn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn
By RokerHRO - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4270121
Sakhalin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin