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Hestia

Greek Goddess of the Hearth and Domestic Life

Hestia was the goddess of the hearth, home, architecture, domesticity, family, and the state. She was one of only three virgin goddesses, next to Athena and Artemis.

She is a goddess of the Olympian generation, daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister to Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter and Hera. 

When Cronus swallowed his children for fear one would dethrone him, Hestia was the eldest and thus swallowed first. After Zeus forced his father to disgorge his children, Hestia was the last to be yielded up, making her both the oldest and the youngest daughter.

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OH NO

This little piggy went to market (to be sold)

This little piggy stayed home (as breeding stock)

This little piggy had roast beef (fattening up before slaughter)

And this little piggy had none (because you don't feed pigs right before you butcher them)

And this little piggy went "whee, whee whee!" All the way home! (He wasnt sold at the market and gets to live another day)

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Madame de Loynes (1862)

When Amaury-Duval painted her portrait, the Comtesse de Loynes (1837 - 1908) was still just Jeanne de Tourbey.

The daughter of working-class parents from Reims, she took advantage of her beauty and wit to conquer Paris and, through her lover Prince Napoleon, to open one of the most brilliant Second Empire literary salons.

This was keenly attended by writers and critics such as Charles Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, Alexandre Dumas, and also Gustave Flaubert, who admired her "panther-like graces and devilish wit". To do justice to such charms, Amaury-Duval called upon all the expertise he'd gleaned from portraits by his master Ingres; set in a jewel case of buttercup silk cushions, the brilliant black taffeta gown —extended by the deep purple drape and the jet-black hair— lend the downy face the opaline brightness of moonlight.

The hypnotic gaze from the shaded gray eyes, framed by earrings in the neo-Greek style, celebrates the gift of this "admirable listener". But, comparable to the gaze of the Comtesse de Castiglione in her photographic self-portraits, this stage effect also introduces the intoxicating allure of the female sphinx, the enigmatic femme fatale, which enjoyed great success with the symbolists at the end of the century.

The critic Emile Cantrel observed that, "There is a world and a half-world in those eyes".

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Apollonie Sabatier

Born Aglaé Joséphine Savatier (07.04.1822 – 03.01.1890), Madame Sabatier was a French courtesan, salon holder, artists' muse and bohémienne in 1850s Paris. 

She was one of four women (Caroline, Jeanne Duval, herself and Marie Daubrun) who inspired Charles Baudelaire's famous work Les Fleurs du Mal.

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Infinity

There are infinite numbers between 2 and 3, but none of them is 4.    

Thus, just because something is infinite, that doesn't mean it contains everything.

There might be infinitely many worlds without even one to inhabit Elbs and Orcs. The Universe can be infinite without containing every possible scenario to ever happen.

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The Rose

The giant hurrican (first image) is the center of the hexagonal feature (second image) at saturn's North Pole.

These aren’t true colours (see third image for that) in the first picture, but they offer a better visibility. Red clouds are at lower and green clouds are at higher elevation.

The storm is larger than the diameter of the earth, the winds are blowing at over 300km/hr.

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Beyond Good and Evil

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The Chaos

is a classic English poem written by Gerard Nolst Trenité in 1922 containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation.

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copacetic

/ ˌkəʊpəˈsɛtɪk,ˌkəʊpəˈsiːtɪk/ adjective, North American

“in excellent order”

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malarkey

/məˈlɑːki/ noun

meaningless talk; nonsense

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Reductio ad Hitlerum

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage which asserts that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches.”

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Garden Path Sentence

A garden path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect. Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate the fact that when human beings read, they process language one word at a time. "Garden path" refers to the saying "to be led down the garden path", meaning "to be misled".

So, yeah, it's like trolling for linguistics nerds.

Examples

"The old man the boats." (Meaning: "The old people are manning the boats.")

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." (Fruit flies the insects.)

"The horse ran past the barn fell." (The damn horse that ran past the barn, fell.)

"The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." (Married and single soldiers and their families are housed in the complex.)

"The author wrote the novel was likely to be a best-seller." (The author wrote that the novel was likely to be a best-seller.)

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State of Matter

Solid is characterized by structural rigidity and resistance to changes of shape or volume. Unlike a liquid, a solid object does not flow to take on the shape of its container, nor does it expand to fill the entire volume available to it like a gas does. The atoms in a solid are tightly bound to each other, either in a regular geometric lattice (for example crystals like diamonds or crystalline solids, which include metals and ordinary water ice) or irregularly (an amorphous solid such as common window glass). Liquid is the only state with a definite volume but no fixed shape. A liquid is made up of tiny vibrating particles of matter, such as atoms and molecules, held together by intramolecular bonds. Water is, by far, the most common liquid on Earth. Like a gas, a liquid is able to flow and take the shape of a container. Unlike a gas, a liquid does not disperse to fill every space of a container. The density of a liquid is usually close to that of a solid, and much higher than in a gas. Therefore, liquid and solid are both termed condensed matter. On the other hand, as liquids and gases share the ability to flow, they are both called fluids. Gas is a compressible fluid. Not only will a gas conform to the shape of its container but it will also expand to fill the container. A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas or atomic gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or compound molecules made from a variety of atoms (e.g. carbon dioxide). At temperatures below its critical temperature, a gas is also called a vapor, and can be liquefied by compression alone without cooling. Plasma is ionized gas. A gas is usually converted to a plasma in one of two ways, either from a huge voltage difference between two points, or by exposing it to extremely high temperatures. Like a gas, plasma does not have definite shape or volume. Unlike gases, plasmas are electrically conductive, produce magnetic fields and electric currents, and respond strongly to electromagnetic forces.

Plasmas are by far the most common phase of ordinary matter in the universe, both by mass and by volume. Artificially produced plasma can be found in  plasma displays, neon signs, fluorescent lamps or plasma balls (sometimes called a plasma sphere or plasma globe). Terrestrial ("terrestrial" refers to things related to land or the planet Earth) plasmas include lightnings, sprites, the polar wind and the polar aurorae. Space and astrophysical plasmas are the sun and the stars, solar winds, the interplanetary medium (space between planets), the interstellar medium (space between star systems) and the Intergalactic medium (space between galaxies).

Transitions between the Four Fundamental States of Matter

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Dysphoria

Dysphoria  is a condition of mood; a state of feeling unwell or unhappy, a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort as a symptom of discontentment, restlessness, dissatisfaction, malaise, depression, anxiety or indifference. Mood disorders can induce dysphoria, often with a heightened risk of suicide, especially in persons with bipolar disorder who are in a depressive phase. Dysphoria may be experienced in response to ordinary life events, such as great illness or grief and commonly a romantic loss/breakup. Dysphoria can also be chemically induced by some commonly used psychoactive drugs.

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1928: Photograph of Ruth Brown Snyder on the electric chair. The final moments of her execution were caught on film with the aid of a miniature plate camera custom-strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer.

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Kuru

In the 1950s the neurological disease Kuru was discovered among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. The local tradition of ritual cannibalism of their dead had led to an epidemic, with approximately 1000 deaths from 1957 to 1960. Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder. The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"), a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease.

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Bouffée Délirante - A puff of Madness

The brief psychotic disorder is a period of psychosis whose duration is generally shorter, non re-occurring, and not caused by another condition. It's an acute psychotic disorder that comes suddenly, lasts at least a day, but not more than a month.

There are three basic forms of brief psychotic disorder:

Brief psychotic disorder with obvious stressor: occurs in response to a traumatic event or major stress, such as the death of a friend/family member, an accident, assault, or a natural disaster.

Brief psychotic disorder without obvious stressor: no apparent trigger

Brief psychotic disorder with postpartum onset: Childbirth may trigger this disorder in some women, usually occurs about four weeks after giving birth.

Internationally, it occurs twice as often in women than men, typically in the late 30s and early 40s. The exact cause of brief psychotic disorder is not known.