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Rest in peace to a legend

Lived to 97 years old, invented the Jello Shot, Wrote some of the best satire I’ve ever heard.

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.” - Tom Lehrer

Listen to Poisoning Pigeons in The Park, Listen to The Elements, Listen to The Masochism Tango. His contributions shall not be forgotten.

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Sony WM-F51, 1987

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Actually I wanna name more women whose work I love.

Lois Bujold has written truly excellent sci fi and fantasy. She is so excellent at making the Character and putting them in Situations that I think a lot of people miss that her world building is also peerless. The Vorkosigan series has such excellent characters and plot and prose that it gets overlooked for the brilliant hard sci aspects. She is examining how reproductive and genetic engineering technology impacts societies in ways I've never seen anyone else tackle them.

But also her fantasy series are amazing? The multiple separate unique magic systems she's come up with are all fascinating. From the beautiful meditations on faith and fate and free will in the Five Gods series to the low magic post-post-apocalypse Americana of The Sharing Knife to the historically grounded Italian politicking but with magic of the Spirit Ring, Bujold was constantly creating the most unique and thought-provoking settings I've read.

She's so old and has only written fun novellas for the last several years but I love her work so much and I wish more people would read her.

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Fanart of @a-gnosis ' lovely Persephone in both her spring and winter look!

Took inspiration from her own drawings and some minoan fashion sheets

@alatismeni-theitsa

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A widely-used sugar substitute found in products marketed to people with diabetes may involve more risks than rewards.

In a new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder found that erythritol — an organic compound used for so-called "stevia" products sold by the brands Wholesome, Truvia, and Splenda — can harm brain cells and increase the risk of stroke and heart attack.

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libsoftiktok going after a beloved inventor furry for some reason

if you're wearing a fitbit, you're using spottacus's technology. be grateful.

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I LOVE Excel! I took an Excel class during University and I’ve never stopped using or learning about it since. During my summer internship, I would literally use Excel functions and macros for hours every single day. Even if you don’t want to be an Excel fanatic, learning a few basic functions will make your life easier (and even impress a few managers along the way!).

I’ve outlined below some of the most useful Excel functions to learn. Some of these functions are very basic but can make a huge difference. These functions save time, automate procedures, and make your life easier! And if you need some help on how to learn them, I’ve listed some helpful resources to get you started. With all of us social distancing at home, now is as good of a time as any to add a skill to your resume. 

Excel Functions to Know:

SUM: returns sum of cells selected

SUMPRODUCT: multiplies ranges or arrays together and returns the sum of product

IF: return one value for a TRUE result and another for a FALSE result

SUMIF: returns the sum of cells if the cell meets a single condition

AVERAGEIF: computes the average of the numbers in a range that meets a certain criteria

VLOOKUP: lookup and retrieve data from a specific column in a table can be exact or approximate match

LEFT: returns a given number of characters from the left side of text string

RIGHT: returns a given number of characters from the right side of text string

CONCATENATE: joins the text of cells together and returns the joined text in one cell

LENGTH: returns the given number of characters in a text

Resources:

Excel Jet: Very useful as a type of Excel dictionary to look up syntax and specific formulas you don’t know

Excel Easy: almost like on online textbook for Excel (great resource for those who have no knowledge of Excel at all!)

Udemy: paid excel course with lots of videos, assignments, and downloadable resources

Coursera: self-paced learning option, quizzes and assignments, and a course certificate

Excel Youtube Course by Technology for Teachers and Students

Datacamp (7/12/20 edit thanks anon for the suggestion!)

Prologue to my Excel series

I’ll also be posting Excel tips, tricks, function explanations, and some basic Excel tutorials so if you’d like to see more appear on your dash in the future, follow my blog and look for my Excel series.

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Husband called me into the bedroom to show me the tag on our mattress cover, he was very proud.

“This seems like something tumblr will like! It’ll get you all the notes…ReTumbls? It’ll get you all the ReTumbls.”

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This is my gf's favorite cat

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Jane Dickson, Out of Here North 3, 2013. Oil on Astroturf.

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Living Time Capsules: The Enduring Enigma of the Coelacanth

The coelacanth has a name that echoes through the annals of paleontology. This ancient fish holds a unique and captivating position in the history of life on Earth. Scientists once believed it vanished with the dinosaurs over 66 million years ago. The rediscovery of living specimens in the 20th century was astonishing. It transformed this ancient fish into an iconic “living fossil.” These…

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Coelacanth spotted! Noticed this one in my kid's book about Elasmosauruses. It wasn't mentioned in the book and didn't have any role in the story, so I have to assume the illustrator just put it in the foreground of this panel because they really wanted to draw a coelacanth :>

OUR KIND OF PEOPLE.

(seriously, that is some freakin' gorgeous coelacanth illustration there. that artist wanted to lovingly draw that coelacanth, plot be damned.)

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Dude.