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Love bombing (en.wikipedia.org)
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Coober Pedy (en.wikipedia.org)
 

The harsh summer desert temperatures mean that many residents prefer to live in caves bored into the hillsides (known as "dugouts"). A standard three-bedroom cave home with lounge, kitchen, and bathroom can be excavated out of the rock in the hillside for a similar price to building a house on the surface.

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Daemonologie (en.wikipedia.org)
 

For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the father of mineralogy and the founder of geology as a scientific discipline.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's an otter by my reckoning.

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Kleroterion (en.m.wikipedia.org)
 

A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον, romanized: klērōtērion) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is the natural continuation of choosing the bear. We found The Universal Exception. And I truly don't give a fuck if a meme of a dorky pretty 50 year old man hurts someone's feelings.

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Elvis taxon (en.wikipedia.org)
 

In paleontology, an Elvis taxon (plural Elvis taxa) is a taxon that has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having developed a similar morphology by convergent evolution.

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Antipodes (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] Plum@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I'm so fucking upset that overly dramatic Spiderman has nothing to do with the theft.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

60% of the time, it works every time.

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r/place (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] Plum@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Plum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's a lot of fun, and there are wildly different projects for different tastes. I like the transcription projects, and any fish/mollusk surveys.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

iNaturalist was already mentioned.

Zooniverse is a great citizen science project.

*I see you said no campus stuff, but look at local colleges for drug studies or brain imaging studies. There's usually some criteria they need participants to meet- diagnosed with (x) or no history of (y)- but some are quick and compensate with cash.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I am a biological woman. I identify as such. I don't know what the same person plus 30+ minutes with a curling iron has to do with cheating. Effort? Vanity? This is far, far beyond me somehow. I am also very old so there's that.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm partial to moooons.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Plum@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I make a German chocolate cake once a year for my partner's birthday that uses an absolutely horrifying amount of sour cream. 12/10 would bake more if it wasn't such a pain in the ass.

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