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[Ancient Hypotheses @AncientEpoch]

🚨Major announcement from the Vesuvius Challenge!

Researchers have completely virtually unwrapped and read an entire Herculaneum scroll for the first time; without ever physically opening it!

The Herculaneum scrolls are a collection of over 1,800 carbonized ancient papyrus scrolls discovered in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, Italy.

They were buried and preserved when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD

The text is a philosophical treatise on ethics, something we sorely could use a reminder of today.

One excerpt reads;

“…we will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature…”

Prescient.

[𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc) @myth_pilot]

“You will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension”

[イタサン @aiueoeuia____]

この祠楽しすぎる
＃ゼルダの伝説　＃Zelda

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Just my luck, my 250 million year old salt has expired

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever

[Jaketropolis @jaketropolis]

this comic always kills me every time. i laugh like an idiot whenever i remember it

[luka big pants @LukaBigPants]

my orange roommate

[nolen @itseieio]

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

The Wealth of Dragons -
https://t.co/Kc04Z7cLw1

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.
https://t.co/edx6MdY3ex

[Tom Cardy @Tomycardy]

Perception check

[Aidan Walker @AKindAleWarTV]

Alan Moore giving the best writing advice I have ever heard

[jabrils @jabrils_]

Never

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today

[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910 - full text pdf: https://t.co/W4gspJoGQc or with the table of contents: https://t.co/55dkZAeGmv]

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Go to https://t.co/bPtzY7bEYL.
Search for "frustrating".
See if you notice anything about the results.

[Lady Gaga @ladygaga]

What’s fortnight

[Momento @antonxuplus]

@ai_curio Microsoft is run by ants

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

As a Tesla staff member put it after Star Man went off to orbit Mars, “Turns out that if you beam enough photons at the Earth it emits a Tesla.”