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Cat, cricket, crossword, croissant, coffee, crossword, colossal cushion.

In retrospect, the 1980s computer game Frogger sent a pretty clear message: cars will squash and kill you, never stopping for you because they take complete priority in the space, while nature will help carry you along, if you’re clever and patient enough to work with what it offers to you. We apparently didn’t learn that lesson.

(I spent some time last week bathing in nostalgia on 1980s computer game simulators… oh, chuckle egg, it was good to see you again…). #climate #cars #ComputerGames

How Eratosthenes measured the earth. Part 1: the discovery of the earth's shape.

Before 400 BCE, everyone was a flat-earther. Afterwards, it gets hard to find people who weren't aware that the earth is round.

A look at early Greek thought on the shape of the cosmos, the earth's location, and the angle of the ecliptic, leading up to the first estimate of the earth's size in Aristotle.

(Reading time: 18 minutes)
kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/202
#ancientscience #eratosthenes #geography #ancientgreece

What’s the best way of spreading the word of your love of Japanese food to your friends?

Sushial media.

Moving the insertion point long distances in the Safari address bar is one of the most tedious interactions in iOS.

Not only that, but there's a trap to see if has been capturing your full attention or not. Will you get the gold star?
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RT @Skirwingle
Getcher lovely fresh podcasts 'ere!
Grab a bisk(it) and something Cornish past-y (?) ... and tune in "to be" entertained...
offgrid.tlmb.net/2023/04/09/of

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^ Sample clue:
What Harry Ramsden's shares with personnel these days? (8)
No spoilers here, ta!

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Sometimes there's a theme, either i. in* the clues, ii. in* the answers, iii. a mix of both, or iv. between the answers.

*(...some of)

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