Dogs rolling around in dirt/shit/piss is an evolutionary throwback to hide their scent from predators on the hunt.
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Also to really annoy their owners
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⌠that film was made by Ray and Charles Eames darlings of mid-century design. (One of their chairs with âTPâ design from JMB) full circle in a way as this lovely place named after that painting.
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Itâs a classic and so visionary considering the technology available. Didnât they make it as a commission for Ford or IBM or something?
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The film was funded by IBM and as Gavin said was directed by Ray and Charles Eames. I work for IBM and remember watching this one lunch time many years ago in one of the conference rooms at work - fascinating stuff!
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I used to work at South Bank in the 90s, heady days, great canteen
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If the history of the Earth was represented as a year then humans would diverge from apes with 14.5 hours left.
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Small world hey Reuben. It was actually in the South Bank office I watched the Powers of Ten in.
The canteens still good as well mate 
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I find this pretty amazing, even though it feels pretty intuitively ârightâ - that the human brain only remembers any event/moment once. Every time you remember that moment again, youâre remembering the the âcopyâ, and on and on.
Also, the intoxicated brain increasingly is unable to create memories. There is no forgetting as thereâs probably nothing to forget.
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the magnitude of difference between a million and a billion explained in time
a million seconds is 12 days
a billion seconds is 31 years
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The human brain is not wired for large numbers. An extra zero seems like nothing (
)
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Letâs get back on track, the oldest of the Golden Girls was actually the youngestâŚ
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Nerve agents such as Novichok inhibit the production of cholinesterase, the enzyme that wipes the last message from the synapses and prepares them for the next message., all the messages get stuck and log jam the brain. Insecticides including fly spray do exactly the same thing to insects, and that is what kills them.
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The steam engine was invented by the Ancient Greeks before Jesus of Nazareth was cutting about preaching. The reason we didnât see an industrial revolution?
Slavery. Thereâs no incentive to revolutionise machines to do the work when you have an economy based on slavery.
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Male llamas bite off other male llamasâ testicles to get rid of competitors during the mating season.
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That explains why theyâre always spitting!
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And chewing 
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This seems like a massive reason behind why we make stupid decisions, believe in conspiracies, write meaningless statements on buses etc
Basically âbig numbers are bigâ is a really easy headline if you want to shitpost about immigration, the national debt, welfare spending etc
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Yep. Itâs hard to really imagine the difference, say, that an extra zero at the end of a number makes.
Croque monsieur means Mr Crunches.
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