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emma gatewood

This is Emma Gatewood, the first known woman to hike the 2,168 mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail solo in just one season. She did it in 1955 at the age of 67, wearing only Keds shoes and carrying an army blanket, a raincoat and a plastic shower curtain. She was also a mother of 11, a grandmother and a great-grandmother.⁣

In the early 1950s, while reading a discarded copy of the August 1949 edition of National Geographic magazine, Gatewood found an article about the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) The description and photographs captivated her and made it sound like something she could do. All that was needed was “normal good health” and “no special skill or training.” She set out in July 1954 at the age of 66 to hike south from Mount Katahdin in Maine. After a few days, she got lost, broke her glasses, and ran out of food. The rangers who found her convinced her to return home, but she decided not to tell anyone about her failure.

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Linkage

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse now a “deserted fantasyland” – Intelligencer

Trained fighter humiliates a street fighter – Reddit

Here’s What Taking a Cold Shower Does to Your Body, According to Experts – Prevention

Learn to Drive a Manual With This One Easy Trick – Car and Driver

Your search for the best toilet brush out there can end now – Amazon

What Ever Happened to Tina Yothers from Family Ties? – Van Life Wanderer

Here’s How Much You’re Earning Per Month On A Minimum Wage Job Around The World – Visual Capitalist

Criminals Are Stealing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kias And Hyundais — And TikTok Is To Blame – Insider

Sam Bankman-Fried transferred $2.2bn in FTX customer funds for personal use, filings show – National News

Convicted rapist sentenced to chemical castration, 35 years in prison – WBRZ

Earning More Money Actually Does Make People Happier: Study – Money

GPT-4 Is Acing Almost Every Higher-Learning Exam – Inside Hook

A damn fine picdump for your viewing pleasure – Leenks

Sickle cell patient’s success with gene editing raises hopes and questions – NPR

People Who Won A Year’s Supply Of Something Share Exactly What It’s Like – Ruin My Week

Movies Explained So Badly That It’s Brilliant – Sad and Useless

The 10 Ways You Are Most Likely To Die in America – Linkiest

Career Cheat Codes I Know at 36 That I Wish I Knew at 26 – Medium

 

What Is A Black Hole

what is a black hole

It’s basically impossible to give a short, succinct description of black holes that is also in any way even vaguely correct. They are so completely different from anything we encounter in daily life that even metaphors fail.

So the best way to think of it, for the layperson just going about life wanting to be essentially educated as to how the universe works, is to imagine a very large, very old star. This star has used up all its fusion “fuel,” if you will, and will soon collapse, exploding spectacularly in an apocalyptic cataclysm of radiation that will, briefly, outshine its whole galaxy.

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Charles the II of Spain

This is the result of 200 years of inbreeding, Charles the II of Spain, at age 4 he could barely walk and was still breastfeeding. At age 9 he couldn’t read or write, he died at age 38 and his death led to the War of the Spanish Succession killing between 400k and 700k people.

“The king is rather short, skinny, but not badly formed, only ugly in the face; he has a long neck, a long face, a long chin and as if it bent upwards; the lower lip typical of the Habsburgs; not very large eyes, turquoise blue and a fine and delicate complexion.

He has a look with melancholy on his face and a little astonished. His hair is blond and long, and it is combed back so that the ears are exposed.

He cannot straighten, unless he leans against a wall, a table or something else.

His body is as weak as his mind. From time to time he shows signs of intelligence, memory and a certain liveliness, but not now; he usually looks slow and indifferent, appearing dumbfounded.

You can do whatever you want with him, since he lacks of own will”

 

Linkage

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you – VOX

She Played ‘Kandi’ On Two and a Half Men, See April Bowlby Now At 42 – Ned Hardy

Women across Iran are refusing to wear headscarves, in open defiance of the regime – NPR

‘We could feel the gravity of it. It was electrifying’: 50 photographs that reshaped sport – The Guardian

Six Hidden Costs That Make Moving Even More Expensive – Life Hacker

The 29 Essential Restaurants in Kingston, Jamaica – Eater

Suspected catalytic converter thief crushed to death at local car lot – WSAV

Here’s How Much of Your Daily Diet Should Come From Processed Foods – Runners World

As a competitor, you can’t avoid the hurt of losing. But you can learn ways to bounce back stronger and more motivated – Psyche

If You Literally Never Cook, Start Here – Eater

This asteroid is most likely to hit Earth, with a possible impact on Valentine’s Day 2046 – Salon

A Ransomware Gang Claims It Hacked Amazon’s Ring – Gizmodo

Crackhead vs Police Officer…cop has some hands! – Reddit

What Ever Happened to Pippi Longstocking’s Tami Erin? – Van Life Wanderer

Mexican president says his country safer than United States – ABC

Man sues Buffalo Wild Wings, claims pricey boneless wings are basically nuggets – Fox LA

This Student Showed Up Dressed As Her Teacher On Superhero Day – Sunny Skyz

Here’s the new spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon – The Verge

 

Why Do People Still Buy Vinyl Records?

why do people buy vinyl records

Some people claim that vinyl sounds better than digital formats and will shut their ears to any arguments to the contrary.

There is plenty of evidence out there supporting these claims, especially when you compare pre-compression era recordings to modern mastering.

There are also people who will tell you that a digital format such as a cd will never have the same sound quality as vinyl.

Most of the proponents of that argument base their pinions on the earliest examples of said format, conveniently ignoring the fact that quality has increased significantly since the 80s.

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Dina Sanichar

Dina Sanichar, the feral boy found after being raised by wolves and was the inspiration for The Jungle Book’s character of Mowgli

Deep in the northern Indian jungle of Uttar Pradesh in 1872, a group of hunters stopped in their tracks, bewildered by what they were seeing. A pack of wolves loped through the forest, followed by a ghostly form: a small child, ambling on all fours. The unlikely pack disappeared into a nearby den. The hunters planted a fire at the opening of the cave and smoked the pack out. As the group reappeared, the hunters killed the wolves and captured the boy.

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