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This limestone stele was dedicated by King Ahmose I, who expelled the Hyksos from Egypt, to his grandmother Queen Tetisheri.
The top of this monument is decorated with a scene showing the king making offerings to the queen, who is seated on her throne.
The lower part of the stela is occupied by a hieroglyphic text that is a dialog between Ahmose and his sister and wife, Ahmes-Nefertari. They are discussing what they have done for their ancestors, especially their grandmother Tetisheri and their mother Queen Ahhotep. He expresses his wish to build a great mortuary temple at Abydos for his grandmother Tetisheri. According to his words, this will be a great temple, the likeness of which has never been built before.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Ahmose I, ca. 1550-1524 BC
. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 36335
“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon
But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently
Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”
“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”
They died, Ashleigh.
This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.
At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.
We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.
This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:
Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.
When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.
Scientist 1, an absolute slut for Christmas: EARLY CHRISTMAS IS GOOD FOR YOU
Scientist 2, ready to burn every Christmas tree within a 10 mile radius because it’s not even Thanksgiving yet: IF I HEAR A SINGLE JINGLE BELL, I WILL DIE
Obvious solution: silently decorate your tree. Yay!
decorating your tree is a choice, it’s enrichment, it makes your environment better ( to your standards) and brings your family together
christmas music is everywhere, it’s inescapable, if you work retail you have to hear it 8 hours a day, and if you’re not Christian or have issues with Christmas it drives you even battier than usual
How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
Initiatives like OpenStructures, Grid Beam, and Contraptor combine the modularity of systems like LEGO, Meccano and Erector with the collaborative power of digital success stories like Wikipedia, Linux or WordPress.
An economy based on the concept of re-use would not only bring important advantages in terms of sustainability, but would also save consumers money, speed up innovation, and take manufacturing out of the hands of multinationals.
