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Carnival.

For a second I was hoping they’d bioengineered stromatolite.

“Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Archaeologists”

Stupid fat hobbit!

I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there's generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).

From the wiki article on Public.Resource.Org:

Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

For anyone else trying to follow this research, the article is describing the paper by Moody et al. from a year and a half ago.

strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart

Isn’t that about the normal interval it takes for him to progress from one coherent thought to the next?

“Feeding the trolls?”

Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

Your opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of mine.

My personal policy is to upvote posts or comments that should get more visibility relative to other posts/comments in the same community/thread. So I might not upvote a post if there are currently other more important posts in the same community, but I might upvote comments on that post if I think they're the most important comments on that post.