Chris Bredesen

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Mornings are for coffee, contemplation and reducing all-cause mortality. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... via reddit

Association of daily sitting time and coffee consumption with the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among US adults - BMC Public Healthbmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com Background Sedentary behavior has been demonstrated to be a modifiable factor for several chronic diseases, while coffee consumption is believed to be beneficial for health. However, the joint associa...

I was just surprised by the only remotely usable ordering Kiosk while at a Miami coffee shop. I think it’s made by Toast. Kudos.

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Freedom Summer

The state of Florida prevented cities from lighting up their bridges in rainbow colors for Pride month. So people did it themselves anyway.

Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.www.jacksonville.com After the state said its bridges will be lit red, white and blue all summer, LGBTQ supporters used rainbow-colored flashlights on Main Street bridge.

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How Not to Get Screwed Buying a Used Car. “This video about how not to get screwed buying a used car crams an astounding amount of good information into three minutes.” [kottke.org]

How Not to Get Screwed Buying a Used Carkottke.org This video about how not to get screwed buying a used car crams an astounding amount of good information into three minutes. Update: Bold claim by Robin Sloan on Twitter: The calm density of this video is way more “f

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Our social dynamic has been defined by a basic schism for almost a decade now: Half the country is going to vote for this man, and the other half cannot conceive why anybody would ever vote for this man.

This one goes in the hall of fame. Perfect.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald xkcd.com/2910

More of this, please.

This is a remarkable article, and if I told you why it’d ruin it. (Gift link) wapo.st/4cjtVfN

The education of a true believerwapo.st Linda Wenhold absorbed the Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a local school board seat.

I just had one of those medical provider online bill pay systems "authenticate" me by account number + date of birth. The next step was asking me to add my DOB to the account. I shit you not.

While we have calculated Pi to trillions of digits, we need only 37 digits to calculate the circumference of the known universe to a margin of error equal to the size of a hydrogen atom. Happy Pi Day! www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/201...

Absolutely fantastic work. Highly recommend watching the video linked in Jason's article below.

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert. A look at the agricultural infrastructure, influenced by indigenous practices, that they’re building in Senegal. [kottke.org]

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desertkottke.org THe Great Green Wall being built in Africa to halt the southern progress of the Sahara Desert is a favorite public works project of mine — it’s massive, ambitious, long-term, important, and if it works, the effec

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A list of things unexpectedly named after people, including MySQL (My Widenius), German chocolate cake (Samuel German), and Shrapnel (Henry Shrapnel). (Also: aspirin, dry ice, and escalator used to be trademarks!) [kottke.org]

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1/2 The renewed volcanic eruption near Grindavik, on the Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland, in a cloudless Copernicus Sentinel 2A satellite image from mid-8 February. Combined natural colour + SWIR.

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These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires

nobody: how many stroopwafels have you eaten this week? me: YOU SHUT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH

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“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022. The market has been flat during the same time period.” More here. [threads.net]

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This Is Where You Aredailystoic.com It would be wonderful to live in a time where people got along. It’d be better if the economy was roaring. It’d be nice if the political landscape wasn’t dominated by grifters and demagogues. An...

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