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Concrete tanks are torture for social, intelligent killer whales.
Captive orcas are tormented by boredom and family separation, but they cannot be simply released. What’s the solution?
Relevant: (…) orcas in the Pacific Northwest have suffered from fatal encounters with ships and other vessels, malnutrition, disease, and accidental stranding.
It was a CD-Rom but, yeah.
What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You.
Thomas Dolby: You have used a laserdisc as a shaving mirror.
Introducing ‘Food Grammar’, the Unspoken Rules of Every Cuisine.
Restaurants like Fazoli’s at once denature Italian food and lock it in time. In these spaces, much like on Ocracoke Island, where locals still speak a version of Elizabethan English, cuisines become divorced from the natural progression back home.
Does it?
Kinopio helps you think through your hardest problems.
Delight as the hard-edged world melts into a full-rainbow spectrum of reality | Aeon Videos.
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow: Onramp (via bizzarodevs.com).
1001 Albums Generator (via bizzarodevs.com).
Generates a random album each weekday from the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (PDF) (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: Catala is a domain-specific programming language designed for deriving correct-by-construction implementations from legislative texts.
How Soviet Science Magazines Fantasized About Life in Outer Space.
Soviet illustrations, even ones with whizzing UFOs and bafflingly futuristic machines, were not drawn to entertain as much as to educate and promote the Communist project.
Relevant: Soviet Space Graphics.
