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Māori Tā Moko Near Extinction

Photojournalist Michael Bradley has created a series focussing on the Māori Tā Moko, the permanent face markings of the New Zealand Māori. In the 1850s, photographs taken by settlers and developed using wet plate techniques caused the face markings to not appear in the final photographs.

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Stripe Press

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Stripe has launched Stripe Press, a book collection that highlights ideas that they think are highly useful. The first round of books available deal with company growth, humans and computers, the future of society and the current geo-political crisis.

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Throwing Is More Important

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This week Seth Godin dropped some extra-mega wisdom on us. For jugglers, catching is the easy part, throwing is more important. In life, putting the working in up front, intiating properly and with a plan, throwing, is way better than reacting all the time.

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Amsterdam River Objects

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While excavating the Amstel river during the building of the North/South metro line in Amsterdam, archaeologists catalogued over 700,000 objects dating back to the 14th century ( and some shells from 124,000BC).The list of objects is searchable via a website and a quick search for Ireland yields some coins and a Daniel O'Connell signet ring from the early 19th century.

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Funny Thing Of The Week: Chair.exe

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chair.exe has stopped working pic.twitter.com/FO56VNvmH4 — Chocolat Pine™ (@BeautifulLoser_) June 23, 2018

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Dan Mace's Weekly Movies

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Dan Mace is a filmmaker form South Africa who for the last few months has been Casey Neistat's sort of apprentice, helping out making vlogs for Casey's YouTube channel/show called 368. Dan left a successful career in filmmaking in South Africa to kickstart his YouTube career in New York (with a little help from Casey). Dan's plan is to use his creative talents to make conscious content, videos with a message or something to ponder about.

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100 Best Youtube Videos Of All Time

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Some many videos! #20 is great!

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The Reason You Procrastinate

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This is a profound 4 minute video of Mel Robbins dropping a wisdom bomb about why analytically minded people suffer from procrastination and how to overcome it.This is one of those "Of course, that's so obvious, why didn't I think of that!" videos.

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The History of Super Mario Bros Level 4-2

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Speedrunning is the act of playing of a video game with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Super Mario is a popular franchised in which speedrunners attempt to out-play each other, with the latest world record set just 22 days ago on May 25th 2018. This video describes in detail the history of Super Mario Bros Level 4-2, a notoriously difficult level to speedrun through apparently.

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The Truth About Lemmings

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We all know the story about how lemmings have a tendency to jump to their deaths en mass off a cliff. It inspired the classic 90's video game shown above.Well it turns out it's all Disney propoganda and not true at all, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

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