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fromAeon
2 days ago

The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays

Jacques Perret proposed the French term 'ordinateur' for IBM's new class of machines, and the term quickly became the standard name in France.
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fromDefector
1 month ago

Fatal Battles In Common Loons: A Subsequent Analysis | Defector

My ignorance of loons was such that when I first saw a loon while kayaking, I thought it was a duck. To my great shame, I went so far as to ask these two other kayakers who were also looking at the loon, "What kind of duck is that?" That is how I learned what loons looked like. This is also when I took the only photo of a loon I got the entire weekend.
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3 months ago

Word of the Week: Before the Birdman of Alcatraz, the island was known for its birds

Alcatraz is back in the news as Trump orders its reopening to house the nation's most violent offenders.
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