44 lines
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JavaScript
44 lines
6.8 KiB
JavaScript
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const metadata = {
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"title": "Things I learned this week #12",
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"author": "Thomas Wilson",
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"date": "2020-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
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const _2020_10_31_things_i_learned_12 = (0, import_index_10ac95e2.c)(($$result, $$props, $$bindings, slots) => {
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return `<ul><li><strong>This high fat diet</strong>: Whales, like dolphins but also humans, are mammals. This means they feed their young with milk. As you would expect, the blue whale has the largest mammary glands on Earth \u2013 each is about 1.5m long and weighs as much as a baby elephant. Blue whale mothers can produce 200 litres of milk per day, with a fat content of 35-50%. For reference, double cream is about 48% fat. It\u2019s no wonder blue whale calves gain about 90kg of weight a day for the first year of their lives.(<a href="${"https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/how-do-whales-breastfeed-underwater/"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>This 100 year old word</strong>: \u201CRobotics\u201D is 100 years old this year, although it was first published by Czech writer Karel \u010Capek in a play, <em>R.U.R. (Rossum\u2019s Universal Robots)</em>, the author credits his brother, Josef \u010Capek, as the <em>actual</em> inventor of the word. Either way, the word itself derived from the Slavic word <em>robota</em> which means slave or servant, and originally referred to artificially manufactured humans who could be mistaken for real (organically manufactured?) humans, <em>a la</em> Blade Runner\u2019s (or Phillip K Dick\u2019s) Android.(<a href="${"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics#Etymology"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>This reason behind a medieval punishment</strong>: In the 1500s, Queen Mary, England\u2019s first Queen who wasn\u2019t just the wife of a king, gained a reputation as \u201CBloody Mary\u201D. Mary was a deeply Catholic woman, which is especially surprising given her father, Henry VIII, formed the Church of England and had a real thing for getting divorced. During her reign, Queen Mary worked hard to stomp out the Protestant faith, electing to burn a lot of its public practitioners. There were numerous, surprisingly socially acceptable, ways to execute someone in Tudor England, but being burnt alive was chosen purposefully. It was supposed to give the victim a taste of the hellfire which was about to overwhelm their soul for all eternity - and a last chance to accept Catholicism and therefore prevent this. (<a href="${"https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-myth-of-bloody-mary"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>This Twitter Holiday</strong>:In April 2011, Ed Ball, the now retired British MP, simply tweeted his name. It turns out he was trying to search for articles about him on the site, but instead he just ended up tweeting two words: \u201CEd Balls\u201D. At the time he didn\u2019t know it was possible to delete Tweets, but even since learning he could, he\u2019s left the Tweet up. Every April 27 some people now celebrate \u201CEd Balls Day\u201D - which strikes me as as a joyfully silly holiday. Back in 2011 it was slightly more noteworthy for politicians to tweet absurd things. (<a href="${"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39744431"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li></ul>
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<h2>What I\u2019ve had on Rotation</h2>
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<ul><li><strong>Something New</strong> <em>New Ruins</em> by Indian Wells (Contemporary Electronic). I\u2019m not 100% sure what genre Indian Wells fits in - it\u2019s beat-heavy, synth-tactic, melodic, and rhythmic. It\u2019s good music to work to, but I also enjoy it if I\u2019m out on a run. This EP, released a few weeks ago, has been really great to put on when I need to focus in on something. (<a href="${"https://songwhip.com/indian-wells/new-ruins"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">links</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>Something Old</strong> <em>All Eyez On Me</em> by 2Pac (Old School Hip Hop). Man, 2Pac gets a lot of recognition and for good reason. He put this album out in \u201897, and it\u2019s two hours long - two hours of lyrically detailed, flow-heavy, classic gangsta rap that honestly still stands up in its own right over 20 years later. (<a href="${"https://songwhip.com/2pac/all-eyez-on-me-1996"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">links</a>)</li></ul>
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<h2>Cool Articles</h2>
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<ul><li><a href="${"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/people-who-prioritize-friendship-over-romance/616779/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">What if Friendship, not marriage, was the centre of life?</a> by Rhaina Cohen for <em>The Atlantic</em>. I like this article because it\u2019s able to point at something we hardly consider, e.g. that the most important and significant relationship in your life will be your romantic one, and ask why that is. I\u2019m not proposing we all try and label someone our platonic soulmate and buy a plot of land in the south of France together (but that would be fun for a bit), but rather ask why we don\u2019t have the words or cultural role models to explain this kind of relationship.</li>
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<li><a href="${"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-54646324?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">Quest Sprout: \u2018The most wholesome thing on the internet\u2019</a> by Michael Baggs for the BBC\u2019s <em>Newsbeat</em>. I saw these cartoons popping up on Reddit every now and again, and they lifted my heart. Quest Sprout is the creation of a a New Zealand-based artist and games tester (and all round nerd) who was trying to spread more positivity. Quest Sprout is a tiny, floral character who just loves going on quests but, like the rest of us, is scared sometimes. Quest Sprout is wholesome and reminds us to be kind to ourselves and others. Go and read the article and feel better on the inside.</li></ul>`;
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