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The Damascus goat, also known as Aleppo, Halep, Baladi, Damascene, Shami, or Chami, is a breed of goat. It originated in Middle East countries such as Syria and was imported by Antoniades family and then by the British into Cyprus, where its qualities were improved by breeding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_goat

https://www.newsweek.com/viral-damascus-goat-monster-real-goat-you-should-see-him-baby-form-855710

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Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown

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Taking a wide-ranging look at mashup music—the creative and technical considerations that go into making it; the experience of play, humor, enlightenment, and beauty it affords; and the social and legal issues it presents—Parody in the Age of Remix offers a pointed critique of how society balances the act of regulating art with the act of preserving it.

in Open Access

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5601/Parody-in-the-Age-of-RemixMashup-Creativity-vs-the

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A Critique of Western Buddhism

What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45850

petition to convince a kid's mom that he should be able to move into their bedroom so he has room to restore more vintage computers.

https://www.change.org/p/vintage-computer-enthusiast-needs-space?source_location=psf_petitions

Rats got places to go, too.

watta tha fakka

https://arigatojapan.co.jp/rice-paddy-art/

https://web-japan.org/trends/11_food/jfd180621.html

top 10 songs about hating morrisey

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-10-greatest-songs-about-hating-morrissey/

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How different languages laugh online

Laughter is universal, but lol is not.

https://restofworld.org/2023/how-people-laugh-online/

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  On 12/28/2023 at 7:35 PM, Freak of the week said:

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  On 12/28/2023 at 7:35 PM, Freak of the week said:

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this looks like a Marc de Jong drawings @prdctvsm

Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men
Exposure to tears led to less revenge-seeking behavior and lower aggression-related brain activity

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231221162243.htm

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The researchers exposed a group of men to either women's emotional tears or saline while they played a two-person game. The game was designed to elicit aggressive behavior against the other player, whom the men were led to believe was cheating. When given the opportunity, the men could get revenge on the other player by causing them lose money. The men did not know what they were sniffing and could not distinguish between the tears or the saline, which were both odorless.

Revenge-seeking aggressive behavior during the game dropped more than 40% after the men sniffed women's emotional tears. When repeated in an MRI scanner, functional imaging showed two aggression-related brain regions -- the prefrontal cortex and anterior insula -- that became more active when the men were provoked during the game, but did not become as active in the same situations when the men were sniffing the tears. Individually, the greater the difference in this brain activity, the less often the player took revenge during the game.

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  On 12/30/2023 at 4:35 AM, ManjuShri said:

Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men
Exposure to tears led to less revenge-seeking behavior and lower aggression-related brain activity

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231221162243.htm

 

so why don't I stop when I'm rapping women? they usually cry...

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Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003060

sampling rate galore

  On 1/5/2024 at 7:15 AM, iococoi said:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003060

sampling rate galore

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That's pretty cool.  After reading just the intro, I have 3 thoughts:

• It must be a trip how fast squirrels, flies, etc. experience the passage of time relative to us
• A squirrel would be good at hitting a fastball
• Someone should use their technique (CFF) to see if good baseball players are physically different from normal people in that their visual systems can operate with a faster temporal resolution

  On 1/5/2024 at 7:15 AM, iococoi said:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003060

sampling rate galore

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those are very old news... that's mainly why you can't catch a fly or mosquito... for them you're in slomo... and for you they're fast af...

  On 1/5/2024 at 10:17 PM, cruising for burgers said:

those are very old news... that's mainly why you can't catch a fly or mosquito... for them you're in slomo... and for you they're fast af...

also, their life span is way lower than ours, 3 days seems like an eternity for them...

  On 12/30/2023 at 5:32 AM, cruising for burgers said:

so why don't I stop when I'm rapping women? they usually cry...

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West Coast or East?

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We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands.

https://timberfestival.org.uk/soundsoftheforest-soundmap/

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William Patrick Stuart-Houston (born William Patrick Hitler; 12 March 1911 – 14 July 1987) was an English-born half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston

5% of the first Herculaneum scroll is now readable.

https://scrollprize.org/grandprize

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The general subject of the text is pleasure, which, properly understood, is the highest good in Epicurean philosophy. In these two snippets from two consecutive columns of the scroll, the author is concerned with whether and how the availability of goods, such as food, can affect the pleasure which they provide.
Do things that are available in lesser quantities afford more pleasure than those available in abundance? Our author thinks not: “as too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant.” However, is it easier for us naturally to do without things that are plentiful? “Such questions will be considered frequently.”
Since this is the end of a scroll, this phrasing may suggest that more is coming in subsequent books of the same work. At the beginning of the first text, a certain Xenophantos is mentioned, perhaps the same man — presumably a musician — also mentioned by Philodemus in his work On Music.

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