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Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide,

At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong housed about 50,000 people. Its population is unremarkable for small cities, but what set Kowloon apart from others of its size was its density. Spanning only 2.6 hectares, the tiny enclave contained 1,255,000 people per square kilometer, making it the densest city in the world.

Kowloon was built as a small military fort around the turn of the 20th century. When the Chinese and English governments abandoned it after World War II, the area attracted refugees and people in search of affordable housing. With no single architect, the urban center continued to grow as people stacked buildings on top of one another and tucked new structures in between existing ones to accommodate the growing population without expanding beyond the original fort’s border.

With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. Rather than navigate the city through alleys and streets, residents traversed the structures using slim corridors that always seemed to morph, an experience that caused many to refer to Kowloon as “a living organism.”

The city devolved into a slum with crime and poor living conditions and was razed in 1994. Before demolition, though, a team of Japanese researchers meticulously documented the architectural marvel, which had become a sort of cyberpunk icon that even inspired a gritty arcade as tribute.

Courtesy: Hitomi Terasawa

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Studies show that babies are not afraid of snakes

Scientists launched reptiles into the nursery to assess the reaction of the kids. The result killed: the crumbs perceived the reptiles as toys, and some tried to eat them

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[ID in alt text] 5/15 of my LGBTQIA+ boots series! asexual flag themed🖤 I'll be posting 1+ per week until the 1st of pride month 🏳️‍🌈 and then I'll post all of them! - stickers or prints of this series here

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Iddingsite

Iddingsite was first described in the 19th century. Its name was given by Andrew Cowper Lawson in 1893 in honor of Joseph Paxson Iddings, a geologist and petrologist. Lawson described iddingsite as soft, brittle, with well developed cleavage in hand sample. Under optical microscope, it shows colors varying from brown to light yellow with pronounced pleochroism in transversal position to their cleavage under optical microscope. They are a common alteration of olivine in basic volcanism (Source: Alteration of olivine in volcanic rocks from Trindade Island, South Atlantic. Mateus et al., 2018).

In this thin section, it is possible to see an olivine with iddingsite alteration (red-colored) from a kimberlite. In my undergraduate research project, I am studying a sample of a volcanic bomb with olivines with iddingsite alteration from Trindade Island.

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I love microscopes, but after a few hours I feel like fighting them.

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Терикони Донбасу та Сіверський Донець

Donbas Tailings and Siverskyi Donets river

The summits of mine dumps may possess a conical shape and stand out as notable landscape features, but they can also be flat and eroded. A mine dump is formed from waste rock delivered from the mine or quarry to the apex of the cone by railcars, skip hoists, or conveyors.

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I'm fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky.

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

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Fellas I’m calling it now, deep dish is gonna cause a schism.

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oh god trad cath instagram accounts are reposting this. on one hand it’s annoying to have my work stolen on the other I don’t want their audience finding this account if I try to claim credit. man. ����

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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

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It's eurovision this week!

Reminder that Yuval Raphael is not the Israeli government. Any hate towards her is at best xenophobia and at worst antisemitism. It is not criticism of Israel as she is not the government of Israel.

You can have conversations on whether or not israel should be allowed compete without veering into bigotry.

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by Laerte Coutinho

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Nice!

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The human body's response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don't Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn't even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going

"Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don't fucking know they're buried somewhere in the dna. I'm greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we're doing now."