thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
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thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: I think Beethoven encoded his deafness in his music
Ode to Joy if I'm not mistaken, if you were to hum it
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Is light fundamentally a wave or a particle?
Where can I read more about this? Thank you in advance
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
What is larger?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars
Russia would be the Kremlin
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenza and pneumonia
My friends in London tell me mask wearing is not widely respected or enforced, which is contributing towards the next lockdown.
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 21
They have been doing poorly the past two days. Why is that?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Assange Hearing Day 20
Next week's episode: allegations the US considered forcible removal of Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy by kidnapping or poison, while the US defense maintains the extradition is not politically motivated at all.
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
Interesting. Could you give an example of rephrasing and being tricky/evasive?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Domains for the Rest of Us
Jet Blue for a humanizing rebrand campaign? Not hard to imagine a scenario.
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
Do you have any sources/articles about the true size of China's economy?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
Do you have a mirror? It's behind a paywall
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
well said
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
Could you elaborate on your point about the Confederate generals?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect
What is the lesson?
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: On Trouser Pockets
These kind of pockets exist already particularly in workwear
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Phylogenetic analyses uncover ancient roots of Indo-European folktales (2016)
Do you have any links you can share? Thanks
thelightthat | 5 years ago | on: Deschooling Society (1970)
Could you link to anti car HN discussions or articles? Thank you
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"There are lots of references to the House of Orange, which still today is officially part of the name of the royal family of the Netherlands (Orange-Nassau); but this use of “Orange” comes neither from the color nor the fruit. It takes its name from a region in southeastern France still known as “Orange.”"