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- Tasmania Is Hiring for a 'Wombat Walker' and Other Odd Jobswww.smithsonianmag.com Tasmania Is Hiring for a 'Wombat Walker' and Other Odd Jobs
The Australian island state is trying to drum up tourism during the Southern Hemisphere's winter
The Australian island state is trying to drum up tourism during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter
Searching for a new job? Tasmania is looking for curious, adventurous professionals to fill a wide array of unusual roles—including a “wombat walker,” who will be responsible for taking the stocky marsupials on their morning jaunts and feeding them snacks.
Tasmania has posted a series of “odd jobs” in a bid to boost tourism during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter, which runs from June to August. All of the gigs are unpaid, though the local tourism board will cover the cost of travel, lodging and food.
- "Jabberwocky" a nonsense poem written
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.
- I promise this story about fonts is interesting
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A 30 minute video about the origin and evolution of fonts - or technically correctly: typefaces
- Zoomed-in image of Uranus
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_scores_another_ringed_world_with_new_image_of_Uranus
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_scores_another_ringed_world_with_new_image_of_Uranus
- Yet Another Optical Illusion
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https://www.deviantart.com/varuas/art/Yet-Another-Optical-Illusion-182701249
- Vertically and horizontally aligned gray squares appear to tilt clockwise
https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/940101439430332417
- 3D atlas of the Universe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOjSQeO1Dg
https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/digital-universe
- $6000 rooftop telescope vs $16 billion hubble telescope
https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/v5er5l/my_6000_rooftop_telescope_vs_16_billion_hubble/
Props to k2qogir
- Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army half-track convoy forming up on the beach. Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/26-G-2517.html
Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colourized-pictures-of-the-world-wars-and-other-periods-in-time/182158581977012
- Chromostereopsis
https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1194941709714460677
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis
https://michaelbach.de/ot/col-chromostereopsis/index.html
- The effects of a polarizing filter on a cameraimgur.com The effects of a polarizing filter on a camera
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users like moeburn.
- Reversed fireworksimgur.com Reversed fireworks
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users like cyan1618.
- Reconstruction of type of the terrain at the landing site of the Venera-13 spacecraft
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-last-photos-from-the-surface-of-venus-are-forty-years-old/
- The West vs. The Rest: The World Divided Into Two Approximately Equal Halves by Military Expenditures
https://philip-kearney.com/?p=148
- The first digital nomadtim.kicker.dev The first digital nomad
In the 1980s, the idea of working remotely while traveling the world seemed like something straight out of a sci-fi novel. Yet, one man defied the nor