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It turns out, mapping the galaxy is a much more difficult job than anticipated, but using the light from Cepheid variable stars, which are stars that brighten and dim according to their size, we can pretty accurately tell distance. By using these stars, we can build a map of the distribution of stars in our galaxy...

So here's a 3D map of Cepheid variable stars, in our very own Milky Way galaxy, released in a survey done back in February. It reveals that the Milky Way isn't as flat as we thought, but rather a little bit warped or twisted. Although rare, it's far from unheard of to see a spiral galaxy with a wobble to it, and quite apparently our galaxy is among them.

Our galaxy is not flat, which means that a whole lot of art is out of date.

We don't know yet what caused the warping effect, could be a recent interaction or collision with another galaxy or even dark matter. At this point, it's still to early to tell.

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This wolf and bear pair were documented travelling, hunting and sharing food together for 10 days.

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six assassins having a awkward moment when they all arrive at epsteins jailcell at the same time and have to draw straws to see who gets to kill him

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7 tactics of pro-democracy #HongKong protesters

💧 be water

protests swarm to shut down one target after another

🌐 open-source protest

on the spot voting via telegram polls

📱 airdrop

after Telegram DDoS, turn to AirDrop and other P2P tools

✌️ sign language

hand signals and literal signs facilitate supply transfers

😢 🙅 neutralize tear gas

smother canisters w/ traffic cones, wet rags

🚶 avoid stampedes

1-2 1-2 chant to retreat safely

💸 crowdfunding

newstatesman.com/world/2019/08

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fun fact: "electability" is a code word journalists use to mean "appeal to the white professional class"

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the national motto of France is "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité", which in English means "Live, Laugh, Love"

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i got the words "jacuzzi" and "yakuza" confused 

now i'm in hot water with the japanese mafia

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do not speak to me or my son again. do not look at my son. do not acknowledge my son's presence in any way. i am trying to trick my son into believing he is a ghost

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In the 11th century, the Arab polymath Ibn Sina was thinking about the nature of self-awareness. He wondered how much one could separate awareness of the "self" from awareness of one's body; whether one could "form the concept of themselves without having the concept of their body included in it." He proposed a thought experiment called the "floating man" in which a fully formed person with no memory is created out of thin air, floating in the dark without any sensory input whatsoever.

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Being a good tourist means embracing local habits. Myself, I quite enjoy drinking from the water fountain each Italian hotel has thoughtfully placed next to the toilet. I thought it was odd at first to have to get down on my knees, but I’ve overcome that now

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gonna be staying late at the gamer girl bathwater factory tonight, we just got a fresh shipment of gamer girls and boy do they need a wash

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