This is interesting. I've never heard of it and I majored in English. Apparently, it's a literary criticism.

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

source Reddit. Update edit. Rotating Switch System used on steep gradient tracks like the Pilatus Railway in Switzerland. Cog trains usually travel on this steep railway using a Locher Rack System and trains only travel the speed of 9 kmh uphill and 10 kmh downhill. Rotating Switch System allows for the crossing of trains to traverse their passage. Thank you once again @niftyandinteresting stuff for your great research.

blessed to witness real love in my upbringing, witnessing men & women actually get along and uplift each other, build together, and prosper. gives me a positive outlook when it comes to relationships. i'm realizing that's not common in america so I don't take those examples for granted.

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really neat spinning, magnet powered scale model of a gravity-powered logging railway...

“Freedom demands that man maintain his dignity and purity, that he control himself.”

— Nikolai Berdyaev, Christian Existentialism

An analysis of a vast database of compounds has revealed a curious repeating pattern in the way matter composes itself. Of more than 80,000 electronic structures of experimental and predicted materials studied, a whopping 60 percent have a basic structural unit based on a multiple of four. What's so strange about this is that the research team that discovered this pattern couldn't figure out why it happens. All we know at the moment is that it's real and observable. It just evades explanation.

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Kola Peninsula, Russia by Vladimir Ryabkov

“Since it lacks physical form, the mind can never be harmed by anything, but because it clings to the body it is oppressed by the body’s suffering.”

— Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (6:52)

My good buddy Mr. Higgs follows me around.

Wild hair wild spirit 🌿

parasitic crustacean of all time goes to dendrogaster, which grows inside starfish

he's just branches! just pink and branches. for some reason theyre really hard to find accessible info on online

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