The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week.
Shibam, which is now a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site, is known for its distinct architecture. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud brick, and about 500 of them are tower blocks, which rise 5 to 11 stories high, with each floor having one or two rooms. While Shibam has been in existence for an estimated 1,700 years, most of the city’s houses originate from the 16th century. Many, though, have been rebuilt numerous times in the last few centuries.
Shibam is often called “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30 m (98 feet) high, thus being early high-riseapartment buildings. In order to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying fresh layers of mud.
The minaret of the Al-Muhdhar Mosque at the nearby city of Tarim is 53 metres (175 ft) high, and recognized as one of the tallest earth structures in the world.
So, I’ve been writing a Mochica dictionary. I couldn’t find one, and needed to combine all the fragments I was working with, for my own sanity. Decided to share, for the 5 other English speaking Moche researchers.
I doubt anyone on here will benefit much, but I’m sharing anyways. Take a look at the ridiculous language I love!
this seven year old girl got half an arm (just like lusie in the gifs) 3d printed and it only cost $50
can we just compare that with the average price of buying a prosthetic
3d printing is gonna help so many people holy crap
No no no, guys, this gif set leaves out the literal best stuff from the video.
So a few years back, this guy who accidentally cut off his fingers, teamed up with a special effects artist/puppeteer and created a 3D printable prosthetic hand, that used the movement of the wearer to be able to grab things. The guys who did this said they were just going to post the schematics online, which in turn lead to creating a network of people with 3D printers, who were willing to print prosthetics for people. The network of volunteers, turned into an organization that gives prosthetic arms/hands to kids who need them. They have science types improving the designs and creating new ones, they got a grant from Google, classrooms and scout troops are getting involved and making prosthetic hands for people.
Everything about this is amazing.
It’s stuff like this that makes technology awesome :’)
[Gifs show a pre-teen preparing a container of goop and then sticking her arm into it. Text:
“This is Lusie. Lusie doesn’t have a left forearm – she was born that way. Normally if Lusie wanted to get a prosthetic arm, it would cost thousands of dollars. That’s a lot of money for something she’ll outgrow in a year.
“See this bucket of purple goop? Lusie is about to stick her arm in there to get fitted for a new prosthetic device. But this one won’t cost her parents thousands of dollars. In fact, they don’t even need to buy it. No one does.
“All they have to do, is print it.”
Follow up comment has a screenshot, showing a quote from disabled-world dot com:
“A lower extremity prosthesis (leg) can range in cost from $5,000.00 to $50,000.00. An upper extremity device (arm) can range from $3,000.00 to $30,000.00.”
just engaged in an extremely petty silent war throughout the church service i was playing organ for, which is arguably very much not in the christian spirit but it was VERY fun
i say silent war, it was a pianist vs organist war, which is probably the least silent a war could be. but at no point was war explicitly verbally declared
what happened was the pianist playing some of the hymns and mid service music came up to me as i was practising beforehand and said to me, in a very patronising “i am a middle aged man and you are but a young woman so i know more than you” way, “that gloria is very difficult isn’t it!!”. so i was like ha, not really 🙂 and he decided to grill me on my whole musical past and tell me how he was incorporating beethoven’s ninth into his pre service improv and other such pretentious things
so naturally being a competitive and petty person i decided i would absolutely have to outdo him, which was not easy considering he was playing a decent keyboard and i was playing a tiny pipe organ that often performs as if someone just kicked it down several flights of stairs
and thus throughout the service we escalated in playing ridiculously flourishy accompaniments, a battle which culminated in him physically dancing down the aisles during my last hymn shaking a maraca with total haphazard glee, which i countered by becoming maybe the first person to force several jazzy glissandi into an 11:30am pipe organ rendition of “sing hosanna”. i enjoyed every second
this is not the first time i’ve seen this post, but it’s the time i feel moved to say that silent sounds like in fact the worst possible adjective to describe this particular conflict.
this is exactly what lawyering is like. i can barely put my coat on anymore because it’s so full of gavels
It is a small end of the world.
My university purged its databases. They finally notice that neither I nor The Very Little Sister have attended in the last 2 years. OUR PASSWORDS NO LONGER WORK AT THE LIBRARY!!!
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