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๐ Knolling
Tom Sachs (born July 26, 1966) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.
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- "Knolling" | 2017-08-07 | 249 Upvotes 76 Comments
๐ Prowords
Procedure words or prowords are words or phrases limited to radio telephone procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information in a condensed standard verbal format. Prowords are voice versions of the much older prosigns for Morse code first developed in the 1860s for Morse telegraphy, and their meaning is identical. The NATO communications manual ACP-125 contains the most formal and perhaps earliest modern (post-WW-II) glossary of procedure words, but its definitions have been adopted by many other organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Rhode Island Department of Emergency Management, Civil Air Patrol, Military Auxiliary Radio System, and others.
Procedure words are one of several structured parts of radio voice procedures, including Brevity codes and Plain language radio checks. The vast majority of the brevity codes from the U.S. military's Multiservice tactical brevity code are inappropriate for any civilian use, owing to their focus on large weapons (missiles, etc.) and other war-related issues. However, a few are used frequently enough in media to be memorable, including ABORT, BOGEY, BANDIT, FEET WET, FEET DRY, NEGATIVE CONTACT, and NO JOY.
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- "Prowords" | 2020-05-31 | 242 Upvotes 109 Comments
๐ Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the book, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the New York World.
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- "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" | 2019-02-20 | 54 Upvotes 10 Comments
๐ List of assets owned by The Walt Disney Company
The following is a list of assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, unless otherwise indicated.
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- "List of assets owned by The Walt Disney Company" | 2020-02-25 | 17 Upvotes 5 Comments
๐ Einstein Refrigerator
The EinsteinโSzilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leรณ Szilรกrd, who patented it in the U.S. on November 11, 1930 (U.S. Patent 1,781,541). The three working fluids in this design are water, ammonia and butane. The Einstein refrigerator is a development of the original three-fluid patent by the Swedish inventors Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters.
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- "Einstein Refrigerator" | 2019-11-12 | 195 Upvotes 42 Comments
๐ โซโฌโโฎtxet lanoitcerid-iB
A bidirectional text contains both text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL or dextrosinistral) and left-to-right (LTR or sinistrodextral). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row.
Some writing systems including the Arabic and Hebrew scripts or derived systems such as the Persian, Urdu, and Yiddish scripts, are written in a form known as right-to-left (RTL), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side. This is different from the left-to-right (LTR) direction used by the dominant Latin script. When LTR text is mixed with RTL in the same paragraph, each type of text is written in its own direction, which is known as bidirectional text. This can get rather complex when multiple levels of quotation are used.
Many computer programs fail to display bidirectional text correctly. For example, the Hebrew name Sarah (ืฉืจื) is spelled: sin (ืฉ) (which appears rightmost), then resh (ืจ), and finally heh (ื) (which should appear leftmost).
Note: Some web browsers may display the Hebrew text in this article in the opposite direction.
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- "โซโฌโโฎtxet lanoitcerid-iB" | 2014-11-27 | 105 Upvotes 14 Comments
๐ 142,857
142857, the six repeating digits of 1/7, 0.142857, is the best-known cyclic number in base 10. If it is multiplied by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, the answer will be a cyclic permutation of itself, and will correspond to the repeating digits of 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7, or 6/7 respectively.
142,857 is a Kaprekar number and a Harshad number (in base 10).
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- "142857" | 2015-08-05 | 100 Upvotes 22 Comments
๐ Working Memory Training
Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory. Working memory is a central intellectual faculty, linked to IQ, ageing, and mental health. It has been claimed that working memory training programs are effective means, both for treating specific medical conditions associated with working memory deficit, and for general increase in cognitive capacity among healthy neurotypical adults.
Individual studies of the topic show different, and sometime contradictory, results, and as one meta study puts it, asking the question โDoes cognitive training improve intelligence?โ is as inappropriate as asking โDoes medicine cure disease?โ, since none of them specify which particular intervention (which medicine or working memory training program) is being evaluated, for alleviating which condition is it applied (ADHD, stroke, general cognitive improvement etc.), and under what circumstances is it administered (selection criteria, adherence rate, outcome variables etc.).
In an influential metastudy from 2012, highly critical to cognitive training, analysed 23 studies with 30 group comparisons, and concluded that clinical memory training programs produce reliable short-term improvements in working memory skills in children and adults with ADHD, but also that there is no evidence that such effects can be maintained long-term without additional follow-up training. Three years later, another metastudy reached the opposite conclusion, that working memory training does have consistent and useful effects, not just on the type of working memory tests that are practiced, but also at other non-trained tasks and everyday life. Since then, a range of additional clinical experiments have been completed, with larger sample sizes, clearly defined control groups, and more uniform treatment of outcome variables. While the evidence is still far from unanimous, there are several experimental studies of working memory training that have shown beneficial effects for people with ADHD, those who have suffered stroke or traumatic brain injury, children who have undergone cancer treatment, as well as for normally developing children.
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- "Working Memory Training" | 2024-07-06 | 10 Upvotes 1 Comments
๐ Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs
Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky. The fundamental unit of solar time is the day. Two types of solar time are apparent solar time (sundial time) and mean solar time (clock time).
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- "Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs" | 2013-09-15 | 119 Upvotes 40 Comments
๐ List of Leaf Vegetables
This is a list of vegetables which are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked. Many plants with leaves that are consumed in small quantities as a spice such as oregano, for medicinal purposes such as lime, or used in infusions such as tea, are not included in this list.
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- "List of Leaf Vegetables" | 2021-02-14 | 38 Upvotes 21 Comments