Today I Learned

After almost 25 years now, there are more things we still can learn about that day. Silverstein had signed a 99-year lease for the World Trade Center complex just weeks before the attacks. Silverstein has stated that he typically attended meetings at the World Trade Center every morning. However, on 9/11, he did not go to the office due to a medical appointment. This detail has frequently resurfaced in documentaries, news reports, and online discussions as people revisit the events of that tragic day.

https://manhattan.institute/article/the-weekend-interview-with-larry-silverstein-rebuilding-ground-zero

Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost

Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.

Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes (/kɪˈmɛrɪfɔːrmiːz/), known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish (not to be confused with rattails), spookfish, or rabbit fish

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/microsoft-will-raise-prices-of-commercial-office-bundles-in-july-.html

The term bourgeois originated in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. Its overtones became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status. Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the bourgeois.

Source: Britannica

I was in an art gallery and so confused about the use of the term with respect to art contemporary to the French Revolution. So I looked it up lol

Happy Canada Day!

Bonus! Canada is also the first country to issue painted coins for circulation.

The find was made by William Buckland, Oxford University's first Reader in Geology. The presence of the beads and other ornaments led him to conclude that the bones were of a woman, and the find quickly became known as the 'Red Lady of Paviland'. Buckland also assumed that the 'Red Lady' was from the Roman period, around 2,000 years ago. We now know that they are the remains of a young man, and far more ancient.

In 2008, scientists used improved radiocarbon-dating techniques, which showed that the bones are around 33–34,000 years old (from a less cold episode during the last glaciation), making the 'Red Lady' one of the oldest examples of a ceremonial burial in Western Europe. Stone tools and burned animal bones show that he could have been one of the hunters that used the cave over many thousands of years. How he died remains a mystery, but the evidence indicates that he was buried ceremonially.

Scientists are looking to extract DNA from one of the leg bones to find out more about who he was and where he came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic%E2%80%93Caspian_steppe

it's a rather interesting area. going by this world map, it's rather flat and fertile. might be an early civilization hub in human history.

Today I learned that the #Cher of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" and the Chér of "Do You Believe in Life After Love)" are the same Cher. 😱

Also, that "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" was originally from her (written by her husband Sonny) rather than from Nancy Sinatra (the version in Kill Bill).

#TIL #Music #Wiki

@til

"Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb."

The whole freak show around cannabis rescheduling is a thinly veiled reach around for big pharma.

There are already FDA breakthrough therapies being pushed by pharma based on cannabis compounds.

For example, Exilby.

Even if you haven’t seen their movies, you’ve at least heard of directors like Rossellini, De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Sorrentino, Moretti, Bellocchio, Tornatore, Martone. What do they all have in common? They’re male directors, and the undisputed protagonists, award-winning by critics and viewers, of the cinematic world from the postwar period onward. But what about Lina Wertmüller or Liliana Cavani (who just turned 90), or more recent voices like Alice Rohrwacher, Emma Dante and Susanna Nicchiarelli? Besides being clearly in the numerical minority, female directors’ names do not have the far-reaching recognition of their male counterparts–historically, a product of the political and social climate, but a reality we haven’t left far behind. A female director in Italy is still a rare thing. Production companies still invest very little in projects that bear the signature of the fairer sex, and female-directed documentaries are more likely to be financed than fiction films–the respected core of the cinema industry. The whole thing seems so anachronistic, especially when we take into account the fact that Italy’s first female director was making films before Luchino Visconti was even born…