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papis: Remove test journal csv

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Marty Oehme 2024-08-07 20:02:13 +02:00
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desktop/.config/river/init
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mod="Mod4"
modemod="Mod1"
term=${TERMINAL:-foot}
layout="rivercarro"
layout="filtile"
time_to_lockscreen=300
time_to_screendim=600
time_to_suspend=900
@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ riverctl map normal $mod F toggle-fullscreen
# Make all connected outputs show the desktop and no windows at all
riverctl map normal $mod+Shift M spawn 'for i in $(wlopm | wc -l); do riverctl set-focused-tags $((1 << 10)); riverctl focus-output next; done; riverctl set-focused-tags $((1 << 10)); riverctl focus-output next'
riverctl map normal $mod+Shift F10 spawn "riverctl send-layout-cmd $layout 'gaps 0'"
riverctl map normal $mod F10 spawn "riverctl send-layout-cmd $layout 'gaps 6'"
riverctl map normal $mod+Shift F10 spawn "riverctl send-layout-cmd $layout '--tags all --output all view-padding 0'"
riverctl map normal $mod F10 spawn "riverctl send-layout-cmd $layout '--tags all --output all view-padding 6'"
# toggle float
riverctl map normal $mod+Shift v toggle-float
@ -292,8 +292,12 @@ riverctl spawn "wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store"
# /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
# start layouting engine
killall $layout
riverctl spawn "$layout -main-ratio 0.65"
riverctl spawn "$layout\
--tags all --output all main-ratio 0.65,\
--tags all --output all view-padding 6,\
--tags all --output all outer-padding 0,\
--tags all --output all smart-padding on,\
--tags all --output all smart-padding 0"
# River will send the process group of the init executable SIGTERM on exit.
riverctl default-layout $layout
# exec $layout -main-ratio 0.65 -view-padding 6 -outer-padding 6 & # -> does not work with current rivercarro version (0.1.4)
brightnessctl set 70%

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writing/.config/papis/scripts/test-journal.csv
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ID,Type,Colour,Title,Author,Date,Created,Updated,Starred,Latitude,Longitude,Address,City,State,Country,HasPhoto,PhotoDate,PhotoLatitude,PhotoLongitude,EntryText,HighlightText
"48A3008B-7B60-4371-9FCB-EC79875E5255","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T05:48:33Z","2020-04-21T05:48:33Z","2020-04-21T05:48:33Z","0","51.33312987755212","12.40349975672389","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","In 2016, a zoo in the Gaza Strip had to be abandoned due to war and the Israeli blockade. As the animals died one by one, they mummified in the dry, hot air. Pictures from inside the ghost zoo show eerily preserved lions, tigers, hyenas, monkeys, and crocodiles."
"B0F64CB1-CE3F-4120-A71B-73A4B42342A9","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:04:00Z","2020-04-21T06:04:00Z","2020-04-21T06:04:00Z","0","51.33326651467173","12.40350059326559","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Livor mortis is the pooling of blood in lower areas of the corpse, usually a person’s back. (Again, thanks, gravity.) The pools tend to be purple in color. In Latin, the phrase means “the bluish color of death.”"
"E7ED8055-408C-45D9-A337-EDF79FCDA1E4","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:05:33Z","2020-04-21T06:05:33Z","2020-04-21T06:05:33Z","0","51.33313899677364","12.40373946824236","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","If the livor mortis is bright cherry red, that might mean the person died in the cold, or by inhaling carbon monoxide (maybe smoke from a fire). If the livor mortis is deep purple or pink, that might mean the person suffocated, or died of heart failure. Finally, if a person has lost a lot of blood, you might not find any livor mortis at all."
"4C32D32A-26D9-4A6B-B09D-10A6AF05373F","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:07:06Z","2020-04-21T06:07:06Z","2020-04-21T06:07:06Z","0","51.33336017226236","12.40364873927894","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","putrefaction. This is when the famous green color of death comes into its own. It’s more of a greenish-brown, actually. With some turquoise"
"CE8B72C5-A72D-4409-B8AE-5AD66C092F8D","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:07:13Z","2020-04-21T06:07:13Z","2020-04-21T06:07:13Z","0","51.33322495992609","12.40351477567372","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","even after you die there are still fun things happening inside your flesh case? Well, bacteria are the most important guests at the party. Gut bacteria go wild, digesting you from the inside."
"9D60E884-E395-44F9-8A8E-1B1EC6F88108","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:10:14Z","2020-04-21T06:10:14Z","2020-04-21T06:10:14Z","0","51.33334809067811","12.40355910032729","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","In a corpse, this marbling is the visible sign of blood vessels decaying and hemoglobin separating from the blood. The hemoglobin stains the skin, producing delicate color schemes in shades of red, dark purple, green, and black. The hemoglobin ring breaks down into bilirubin (turning you yellow) and biliverdin (turning you green)."
"C2C62195-156F-45D3-A6DD-F93558CE2400","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:16:02Z","2020-04-21T06:16:02Z","2020-04-21T06:16:02Z","0","51.33307523642424","12.40368739009483","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","It’s more height than weight that determines how much ash is in that doves-and-roses urn. Women tend to be shorter—less bone—so their ashes usually weigh around four pounds. Men tend to be taller, and have ashes that weigh around six pounds"
"DE2BC341-686E-426E-BC9D-40720FDF1960","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:27:21Z","2020-04-21T06:27:21Z","2020-04-21T06:27:21Z","0","51.33315269318479","12.40353550840357","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","The muscles in your body need ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in order to relax. But ATP requires oxygen. No more breathing means no more oxygen, which means no more ATP, which means the muscles seize up and can’t relax. This chemical change, collectively called rigor mortis, starts around your eyelids and jaw and spreads through every muscle in the body, even the organs"
"15A77BF7-A426-483D-B872-1C6B31C0487D","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:28:29Z","2020-04-21T06:28:29Z","2020-04-21T06:28:29Z","0","51.33320752344045","12.40346894462138","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Unfortunately, rigor mortis eventually goes away. Every dead body is different, and the environment plays a big role in the timing, but after about seventy-two hours your muscles will go all floppy again—along with your duck-face lips."
"CAAB37BE-FBEC-40E9-9EBE-30446DA255C7","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-21T06:28:56Z","2020-04-21T06:28:56Z","2020-04-21T06:28:56Z","0","51.33321627423378","12.40351308014501","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","cadaveric spasm, also known as instantaneous rigor. Instantaneous rigor is exactly what it sounds like. When someone dies, they skip right over the floppy muscle relaxation stage and go straight into rigor mortis"
"DFD27A7C-5989-4856-A1AF-3FB94441D4B2","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T05:42:23Z","2020-04-22T05:42:23Z","2020-04-22T05:42:23Z","0","51.33315890745651","12.40386766229344","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","extreme taphophobia, or the fear of being buried alive"
"70630E8A-074E-4EF4-A90D-C09C904E1A30","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T05:42:35Z","2020-04-22T05:42:35Z","2020-04-22T05:42:35Z","0","51.33347725283606","12.4038111028164","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Matthew Wall, a man living (yes, living) in Braughing, England, in the sixteenth century. Matthew was thought to be dead, but was lucky enough to have his pallbearers slip on wet leaves and drop the coffin on the way to his burial. As the story goes, when the coffin was dropped, Matthew awakened and knocked on the lid to be released. To this day, every October 2nd is celebrated as Old Man’s Day to commemorate Matthew’s revival. He lived, by the way, for twenty-four more years."
"C263EF5F-6EE6-45A7-8636-ADF854F783E2","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T05:44:16Z","2020-04-22T05:44:16Z","2020-04-22T05:44:16Z","0","51.33333234385331","12.40393275864894","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","1937 is not quite Ye Olden Times, but at least it’s way before you were born—Angelo Hays of France was in a motorcycle accident. When doctors couldn’t find his pulse, he was pronounced dead. He was buried quickly and his own parents were not allowed to see his disfigured body. Angelo would have remained buried if it wasn’t for the life insurance company’s suspicions of foul play.
Two days after Angelo was buried, he was exhumed for an investigation. Upon inspecting the “corpse,” examiners found that it was still warm, and that Angelo was alive.
The theory is that Angelo had been in a very deep coma which slowed his breathing way, way down. It was that slow breathing that allowed him to stay alive while buried.*"
"694640C9-8B5B-4A17-8CA5-F28A36154426","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:04:37Z","2020-04-22T06:04:37Z","2020-04-22T06:04:37Z","0","51.3329970518616","12.40360202980954","Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","As the soldiers slowly decompose below ground, their bodies mix with the soil, releasing arsenic. As rain and floodwater move through the soil, concentrated clumps of arsenic are washed into the local water supply. Any amount of arsenic in your water is too much arsenic, frankly—but in trace amounts it’s safe to drink. Still, a study at a Civil War cemetery in Iowa City found that nearby water contained arsenic at three times the safe limit."
"C74E1470-3A59-48E7-86D6-487A0CDD699D","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:04:55Z","2020-04-22T06:04:55Z","2020-04-22T06:04:55Z","0","51.33303741650271","12.40377726073955","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","most families couldn’t afford the expensive iron coffins that the train companies would allow. So enterprising men, called embalmers, started following the armies around, setting up tents, and chemically preserving the soldiers killed in battle so that they wouldn’t decompose on the journey back home. The embalmers, who were still experimenting with their craft, used everything from sawdust to arsenic. The problem with arsenic is that it’s toxic to living humans. Extremely, wildly toxic"
"C6CED978-ACE6-4CA0-A049-BE020E554A8B","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:28:23Z","2020-04-22T06:28:23Z","2020-04-22T06:28:23Z","0","51.33344123900376","12.40378955575635","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Eating a dead human may be horrifying to you, but humans throughout history have practiced mortuary cannibalism. Mortuary cannibalism is when the relatives, neighbors, or community members consume the flesh, or ashes, or both, of a dead person"
"6F8A02E9-B3C1-43BC-A4E3-9F9C3800D065","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:32:59Z","2020-04-22T06:32:59Z","2020-04-22T06:32:59Z","0","51.33306930550049","12.40362377979757","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","cannibalism is not against the law. It’s not criminal to eat human flesh, but acquiring the human flesh (even if the dead person wanted you to eat them) is breaking the law. The laws you’re breaking are . . . wait for it. . . . remember these? Welcome back, abuse of corpse laws! It’s considered desecration and mutilation to eat a dead body"
"D927ECD5-A0B4-4392-9FF9-CE2DFA411767","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:33:47Z","2020-04-22T06:33:47Z","2020-04-22T06:33:47Z","0","51.33313436525666","12.40359640790111","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","In 1945 and 1956, two researchers analyzed the donated bodies of four adult males, and estimated that the average male offers about 125,822 calories from protein and fat. That number is far below what other red meats like beef or boar can offer.
(Yes, you heard me, humans are red meat.)"
"67A56CE3-9EA9-4734-AD27-CB36E2C30B59","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:34:55Z","2020-04-22T06:34:55Z","2020-04-22T06:34:55Z","0","51.33317946718154","12.4036723669615","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Neanderthals or Homo erectus, had cannibalistic tendencies. But if they ate their own kind, it was for ritual purposes, not dietary purposes. Again, humans just don’t provide enough calories to compete with something like a mammoth, which would have provided a (totally worth it) 3.6 million calories"
"7CD9FA34-B80B-4A89-8711-CF6F920D89D5","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:36:02Z","2020-04-22T06:36:02Z","2020-04-22T06:36:02Z","0","51.33311117236514","12.40366741139765","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","hákarl or fermented shark, which is a beloved national dish in Iceland. The shark is buried, fermented, and hung to dry for months until its debut as a pungent, rotten treat.)"
"7965FF25-0FC2-440D-BA14-5B5BD0F578C8","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:37:07Z","2020-04-22T06:37:07Z","2020-04-22T06:37:07Z","0","51.33326414731066","12.40334296907688","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Even if the animal you ate had some sort of disease, most diseases are not zoonotic. That is to say, a human can’t get an animal disease by eating that animal. (Ebola is one of the rare exceptions.)
But if you’re going to eat a human corpse it’s a different story. It is possible to contract blood-borne viruses such hepatitis B or HIV. Unlike when you eat animals, if you eat diseased human flesh, you could end up suffering from the same illness."
"3C65AE85-D644-4FF8-AA39-876F39770A83","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:38:16Z","2020-04-22T06:38:16Z","2020-04-22T06:38:16Z","0","51.33313684399542","12.40356420725142","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Humans can have abnormal proteins called prions. These proteins have lost their shape and proper function, and infect other, normal proteins. Unlike a virus or an infection, prions don’t have DNA or RNA, so they can’t be killed by heat or radiation. They’re tough little suckers that like to hang out in the brain and spinal column, spreading lesions and chaos.
When talking about prions, scientists often point to the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. As late as the 1950s, anthropologists documented an epidemic of a neurological disease called kuru that was killing members of the tribe. Kuru is a disease caused by prions in the brain. The spread of kuru was traced to the tribe’s ritual of eating of human brains after death. The infected suffer from muscle spasms, dementia, and uncontrollable laughing or crying. The end result is a brain literally full of holes—and then death"
"85C5809D-269E-4A79-A636-7CBCD399A026","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:40:16Z","2020-04-22T06:40:16Z","2020-04-22T06:40:16Z","0","51.33324531314521","12.40348109026645","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","The Yarkon Cemetery in Israel has started adding burial towers that will ultimately hold 250,000 graves. The towers even respect Jewish custom by filling the burial columns with dirt so that the graves are connected to the earth. At the moment, the world’s tallest cemetery is in Brazil. Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica III contains thirty-two stories of graves, and also has a restaurant, concert hall, and gardens filled with exotic birds. When I was in Tokyo, Japan, I visited a multistory building that houses thousands of cremated remains (delivered to personal visiting rooms by automatic conveyors that locate and fetch the correct urn)"
"F514887D-EBBE-476A-A925-349956DBB1F8","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:42:42Z","2020-04-22T06:42:42Z","2020-04-22T06:42:42Z","0","51.33321134404212","12.40346390338805","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","In Singapore, for every square mile there are more than 18,000 people. Every. Square. Mile. 18,000. People. In the United States, for every square mile there are only 92 people."
"485B0E2D-E873-49CA-AB58-F3E6E094D4AF","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:44:44Z","2020-04-22T06:44:44Z","2020-04-22T06:44:44Z","0","51.3332780072871","12.40335988533181","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","not all near-death experiences are created equal. Not everyone finds themselves walking into a sparkling white light while scenes of childhood pets and awkward job interviews pass before their eyes. In one study, about half of the people who had a near-death experience said they were fully aware they were dead (which could be good or bad, depending on how chill with death you are). One in four people said they had an out-of-body experience. Only one in three actually moved through the good ol’ tunnel. Also, some bad news: we imagine NDEs as being positive and blissful, but that was only true about half the time. Turns out they can be pretty terrifying, too."
"48DF4E17-A72C-4932-A5E8-2404E40589E0","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:49:59Z","2020-04-22T06:49:59Z","2020-04-22T06:49:59Z","0","51.33340826907205","12.40373781249704","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Religious folks may see the light as a supernatural gateway to the afterlife; scientists may see the light as caused by oxygen deprivation in the brain"
"A4BF96D3-4D3E-4A05-9FA7-7C1431247092","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:50:29Z","2020-04-22T06:50:29Z","2020-04-22T06:50:29Z","0","51.33313187386248","12.40360474920343","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Scientists believe that seeing this light at the end of the tunnel is the result of retinal ischemia, which happens when there isn’t enough blood reaching the eye. As less blood flows to the eyes, vision is reduced. Being in a state of extreme fear can also cause retinal ischemia. Both fear and decrease in oxygen are associated with dying. In this context, the extreme white tunnel vision characteristic of NDEs starts to make much more sense."
"CCE34C40-F2A7-4B9D-8FB8-C6E680DC32AF","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:51:35Z","2020-04-22T06:51:35Z","2020-04-22T06:51:35Z","0","51.33329482285431","12.40364259648123","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","necrophages, the unsung heroes of the natural world. They are the death eaters, the organisms that fuel up by consuming dead and rotting things"
"0CCE3637-107E-4D26-8464-91FF655F18FF","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:54:31Z","2020-04-22T06:54:31Z","2020-04-22T06:54:31Z","0","51.33293946208754","12.40374112690689","Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","why don’t they eat bones, too? The simple answer is that eating bones is hard work. Not only that, but bones are not nutritionally useful to insects. Bones are mostly made of calcium, something insects just don’t need a lot of. Since they don’t need much calcium, insects like dermestids haven’t evolved to consume it or desire it"
"D670B3E4-D54B-4E4E-B8A1-71C7801AD636","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:55:35Z","2020-04-22T06:55:35Z","2020-04-22T06:55:35Z","0","51.33322607376345","12.40368501492717","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","So, while dermestids and other flesh-eating bugs do not usually eat bone, if they get hungry enough, they will. Humans behave the same way. When Paris was under siege in the late sixteenth century, the city was starving. When people inside the city ran out of cats and dogs and rats to eat, they began disinterring bodies from the mass graves in the cemetery. They took the bones and ground them into flour to make what became known as Madame de Montpensier’s bread. Bone appetit! (Actually, maybe don’t bone appetit, as many who ate the bone bread died themselves.)"
"88349039-88D4-454E-B8D9-94C65DC27E84","2","2","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:56:52Z","2020-04-22T06:56:52Z","2020-04-22T06:56:52Z","0","51.33330624333909","12.40354514751025","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","There is strong evidence that bone worms have been eating giant marine reptiles since the time of the dinosaurs. That means the whale eaters are older than whales themselves."
"949FED16-150A-4200-8C75-BED6C1BB6E84","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-22T06:59:55Z","2020-04-22T06:59:55Z","2020-04-22T06:59:55Z","0","51.33326913673976","12.40356814886445","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Other cultures gave up on burial entirely. High in the mountains of Tibet, where the ground is often too rocky and frozen for burial, and where not enough trees grow to perform cremations, a different kind of death ritual developed. To this day, bodies are laid out in an open area for a sky burial, a lovely name for the dead body being consumed by vultures. Your cat might eat you after you die, but a vulture can’t wait to rip you to pieces and carry you off into the sky."
"F530E5B8-3E18-4089-898F-22C3756BBD34","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-23T06:16:09Z","2020-04-23T06:16:09Z","2020-04-23T06:16:09Z","0","51.33337047680838","12.4034332761469","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","As they break down their brand-new food source—your dead body—the microbes give off gas made of VOCs, or volatile organic compounds. The prime stinkers here tend to be sulfur-containing compounds, which makes sense if you’ve ever experienced an especially potent and sulfuric eggy fart. Sulfur is the culprit in many a stink."
"85A7852B-FB64-4740-9F5E-E6663499F602","2","0","Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?","Caitlin Doughty","2020-04-23T06:33:14Z","2020-04-23T06:33:14Z","2020-04-23T06:33:14Z","0","51.33342240539643","12.40362916382752","Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany","Leipzig","Saxony","Germany","0","","","","","Sometimes, larger bones, like thigh bones, require two people to pick up the bone at once. And sometimes the family will pass bone fragments to one another, chopsticks to chopsticks. This is the only time passing something between chopsticks is not considered rude. If you were to do this in public, with, say, a pork sparerib at a restaurant, it would be like bringing a funeral ritual to the dinner table. Total faux pas."
"ED307F41-88BE-411B-A557-1157CE856DE8","2","0","Babel","R. F. Kuang","2023-02-07T14:56:10Z","2023-02-07T14:56:10Z","2023-02-07T14:56:10Z","0","45.10420249850454","5.742597241511231","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","The abolitionist movement you know is a load of pomp. Rhetoric only. Pitt first raised the motion because he saw the need to cut off the slave trade to France. And Parliament got on board with the abolitionists because they were so very afraid of Black insurrection in the West Indies.’
‘So you think it’s purely risk and economics.’
‘Well, not necessarily. You brother likes to argue that the Jamaican slave revolt, failed though it was, is what impelled the British to legislate abolition. He’s right, but only half right. See, the revolt won British sympathy because the leaders were part of the Baptist church, and when it failed, proslavery whites in Jamaica started destroying chapels and threatening missionaries. Those Baptists went back to England and drummed up support on the grounds of religion, not natural rights. My point being, abolition happened because white people found reasons to care – whether those be economic or religious. You just have to make them think they came up with the idea themselves. You can’t appeal to their inner goodness. I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.’"
"D5EC6BE7-58DB-4E7E-8717-31ECBE11F8FE","2","0","Babel","R. F. Kuang","2023-02-08T07:58:12Z","2023-02-08T07:58:12Z","2023-02-08T07:58:12Z","0","45.10420267773596","5.74259767871893","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","Strikers in this country never won broad public support, for the public merely wanted all the conveniences of modern life without the guilt of knowing how those conveniences were procured."
"70FC0FBF-8BF3-4C03-AD90-864B8CD028FE","2","0","Babel","R. F. Kuang","2023-02-08T08:27:23Z","2023-02-08T08:27:23Z","2023-02-08T08:27:23Z","0","45.10420148905155","5.742597357615256","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","The tactics of revolt spread fast. The British textile workers picked up these techniques of barricade from the 1831 and 1834 Canut revolts by silk workers in Lyon. Those revolts had been brutally repressed – but, crucially, they did not hold the backbone of the entire nation hostage"
"10E7ED24-7F91-4DF2-B852-4AE6D5336111","2","0","Babel","R. F. Kuang","2023-02-09T20:45:43Z","2023-02-09T20:45:43Z","2023-02-09T20:45:43Z","0","45.10420123431852","5.742597001332137","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","‘It’s like I’ve known you forever.’
‘Me too,’ Ramy said.
‘And that makes no sense,’ said Robin, drunk already, though there was no alcohol in the cordial. ‘Because I’ve known you for less than a day, and yet . . .’
‘I think,’ said Ramy, ‘it’s because when I speak, you listen.’
‘Because you’re fascinating.’
‘Because you’re a good translator.’ Ramy leaned back on his elbows. ‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands"
"DAFA053F-19A9-4AA5-9A7D-22CF569281DA","2","0","Babel","R. F. Kuang","2023-02-09T20:59:12Z","2023-02-09T20:59:12Z","2023-02-09T20:59:12Z","0","45.10418836497428","5.742602536574182","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","Victoire knows better.
Victory is not assured. Victory may be in the portents, but it must be urged there by violence, by suffering, by martyrs, by blood. Victory is wrought by ingenuity, persistence, and sacrifice. Victory is a game of inches, of historical contingencies where everything goes right because they have made it go right."
"0EBECEC5-9E72-4625-922A-C068BD4EE6BC","2","0","Totalitarianism","Hannah Arendt","2023-02-11T10:12:17Z","2023-02-11T10:12:17Z","2023-02-11T10:12:17Z","0","45.10421600393487","5.742588003722739","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","In other words, while it has always been known that official Soviet publications served propaganda purposes and were utterly unreliable, it now appears that reliable source and statistical material probably never existed anywhere"
"A1AFD977-E93D-4760-AC61-7E8ACC568D96","2","0","Totalitarianism","Hannah Arendt","2023-02-11T10:21:12Z","2023-02-11T10:21:12Z","2023-02-11T10:21:12Z","0","45.10420096244634","5.742582390092738","226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France","Jarrie","Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes","France","0","","","","","Absolute monarchy, no doubt, was a very different affair in Spain, in France, in England, in Prussia; still it was everywhere the same form of government. Decisive in our context is that totalitarian government is different from dictatorships and tyrannies; the ability to distinguish between them is by no means an academic issue which could be safely left to the ""theoreticians,"" for total domination is the only form of government with which coexistence is not possible"
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2 48A3008B-7B60-4371-9FCB-EC79875E5255 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T05:48:33Z 2020-04-21T05:48:33Z 2020-04-21T05:48:33Z 0 51.33312987755212 12.40349975672389 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 In 2016, a zoo in the Gaza Strip had to be abandoned due to war and the Israeli blockade. As the animals died one by one, they mummified in the dry, hot air. Pictures from inside the ghost zoo show eerily preserved lions, tigers, hyenas, monkeys, and crocodiles.
3 B0F64CB1-CE3F-4120-A71B-73A4B42342A9 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:04:00Z 2020-04-21T06:04:00Z 2020-04-21T06:04:00Z 0 51.33326651467173 12.40350059326559 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Livor mortis is the pooling of blood in lower areas of the corpse, usually a person’s back. (Again, thanks, gravity.) The pools tend to be purple in color. In Latin, the phrase means “the bluish color of death.”
4 E7ED8055-408C-45D9-A337-EDF79FCDA1E4 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:05:33Z 2020-04-21T06:05:33Z 2020-04-21T06:05:33Z 0 51.33313899677364 12.40373946824236 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 If the livor mortis is bright cherry red, that might mean the person died in the cold, or by inhaling carbon monoxide (maybe smoke from a fire). If the livor mortis is deep purple or pink, that might mean the person suffocated, or died of heart failure. Finally, if a person has lost a lot of blood, you might not find any livor mortis at all.
5 4C32D32A-26D9-4A6B-B09D-10A6AF05373F 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:07:06Z 2020-04-21T06:07:06Z 2020-04-21T06:07:06Z 0 51.33336017226236 12.40364873927894 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 putrefaction. This is when the famous green color of death comes into its own. It’s more of a greenish-brown, actually. With some turquoise
6 CE8B72C5-A72D-4409-B8AE-5AD66C092F8D 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:07:13Z 2020-04-21T06:07:13Z 2020-04-21T06:07:13Z 0 51.33322495992609 12.40351477567372 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 even after you die there are still fun things happening inside your flesh case? Well, bacteria are the most important guests at the party. Gut bacteria go wild, digesting you from the inside.
7 9D60E884-E395-44F9-8A8E-1B1EC6F88108 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:10:14Z 2020-04-21T06:10:14Z 2020-04-21T06:10:14Z 0 51.33334809067811 12.40355910032729 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 In a corpse, this marbling is the visible sign of blood vessels decaying and hemoglobin separating from the blood. The hemoglobin stains the skin, producing delicate color schemes in shades of red, dark purple, green, and black. The hemoglobin ring breaks down into bilirubin (turning you yellow) and biliverdin (turning you green).
8 C2C62195-156F-45D3-A6DD-F93558CE2400 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:16:02Z 2020-04-21T06:16:02Z 2020-04-21T06:16:02Z 0 51.33307523642424 12.40368739009483 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 It’s more height than weight that determines how much ash is in that doves-and-roses urn. Women tend to be shorter—less bone—so their ashes usually weigh around four pounds. Men tend to be taller, and have ashes that weigh around six pounds
9 DE2BC341-686E-426E-BC9D-40720FDF1960 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:27:21Z 2020-04-21T06:27:21Z 2020-04-21T06:27:21Z 0 51.33315269318479 12.40353550840357 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 The muscles in your body need ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in order to relax. But ATP requires oxygen. No more breathing means no more oxygen, which means no more ATP, which means the muscles seize up and can’t relax. This chemical change, collectively called rigor mortis, starts around your eyelids and jaw and spreads through every muscle in the body, even the organs
10 15A77BF7-A426-483D-B872-1C6B31C0487D 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:28:29Z 2020-04-21T06:28:29Z 2020-04-21T06:28:29Z 0 51.33320752344045 12.40346894462138 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Unfortunately, rigor mortis eventually goes away. Every dead body is different, and the environment plays a big role in the timing, but after about seventy-two hours your muscles will go all floppy again—along with your duck-face lips.
11 CAAB37BE-FBEC-40E9-9EBE-30446DA255C7 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-21T06:28:56Z 2020-04-21T06:28:56Z 2020-04-21T06:28:56Z 0 51.33321627423378 12.40351308014501 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 cadaveric spasm, also known as instantaneous rigor. Instantaneous rigor is exactly what it sounds like. When someone dies, they skip right over the floppy muscle relaxation stage and go straight into rigor mortis
12 DFD27A7C-5989-4856-A1AF-3FB94441D4B2 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T05:42:23Z 2020-04-22T05:42:23Z 2020-04-22T05:42:23Z 0 51.33315890745651 12.40386766229344 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 extreme taphophobia, or the fear of being buried alive
13 70630E8A-074E-4EF4-A90D-C09C904E1A30 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T05:42:35Z 2020-04-22T05:42:35Z 2020-04-22T05:42:35Z 0 51.33347725283606 12.4038111028164 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Matthew Wall, a man living (yes, living) in Braughing, England, in the sixteenth century. Matthew was thought to be dead, but was lucky enough to have his pallbearers slip on wet leaves and drop the coffin on the way to his burial. As the story goes, when the coffin was dropped, Matthew awakened and knocked on the lid to be released. To this day, every October 2nd is celebrated as Old Man’s Day to commemorate Matthew’s revival. He lived, by the way, for twenty-four more years.
14 C263EF5F-6EE6-45A7-8636-ADF854F783E2 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T05:44:16Z 2020-04-22T05:44:16Z 2020-04-22T05:44:16Z 0 51.33333234385331 12.40393275864894 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 1937 is not quite Ye Olden Times, but at least it’s way before you were born—Angelo Hays of France was in a motorcycle accident. When doctors couldn’t find his pulse, he was pronounced dead. He was buried quickly and his own parents were not allowed to see his disfigured body. Angelo would have remained buried if it wasn’t for the life insurance company’s suspicions of foul play. Two days after Angelo was buried, he was exhumed for an investigation. Upon inspecting the “corpse,” examiners found that it was still warm, and that Angelo was alive. The theory is that Angelo had been in a very deep coma which slowed his breathing way, way down. It was that slow breathing that allowed him to stay alive while buried.*
15 694640C9-8B5B-4A17-8CA5-F28A36154426 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:04:37Z 2020-04-22T06:04:37Z 2020-04-22T06:04:37Z 0 51.3329970518616 12.40360202980954 Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 As the soldiers slowly decompose below ground, their bodies mix with the soil, releasing arsenic. As rain and floodwater move through the soil, concentrated clumps of arsenic are washed into the local water supply. Any amount of arsenic in your water is too much arsenic, frankly—but in trace amounts it’s safe to drink. Still, a study at a Civil War cemetery in Iowa City found that nearby water contained arsenic at three times the safe limit.
16 C74E1470-3A59-48E7-86D6-487A0CDD699D 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:04:55Z 2020-04-22T06:04:55Z 2020-04-22T06:04:55Z 0 51.33303741650271 12.40377726073955 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 most families couldn’t afford the expensive iron coffins that the train companies would allow. So enterprising men, called embalmers, started following the armies around, setting up tents, and chemically preserving the soldiers killed in battle so that they wouldn’t decompose on the journey back home. The embalmers, who were still experimenting with their craft, used everything from sawdust to arsenic. The problem with arsenic is that it’s toxic to living humans. Extremely, wildly toxic
17 C6CED978-ACE6-4CA0-A049-BE020E554A8B 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:28:23Z 2020-04-22T06:28:23Z 2020-04-22T06:28:23Z 0 51.33344123900376 12.40378955575635 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Eating a dead human may be horrifying to you, but humans throughout history have practiced mortuary cannibalism. Mortuary cannibalism is when the relatives, neighbors, or community members consume the flesh, or ashes, or both, of a dead person
18 6F8A02E9-B3C1-43BC-A4E3-9F9C3800D065 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:32:59Z 2020-04-22T06:32:59Z 2020-04-22T06:32:59Z 0 51.33306930550049 12.40362377979757 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 cannibalism is not against the law. It’s not criminal to eat human flesh, but acquiring the human flesh (even if the dead person wanted you to eat them) is breaking the law. The laws you’re breaking are . . . wait for it. . . . remember these? Welcome back, abuse of corpse laws! It’s considered desecration and mutilation to eat a dead body
19 D927ECD5-A0B4-4392-9FF9-CE2DFA411767 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:33:47Z 2020-04-22T06:33:47Z 2020-04-22T06:33:47Z 0 51.33313436525666 12.40359640790111 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 In 1945 and 1956, two researchers analyzed the donated bodies of four adult males, and estimated that the average male offers about 125,822 calories from protein and fat. That number is far below what other red meats like beef or boar can offer. (Yes, you heard me, humans are red meat.)
20 67A56CE3-9EA9-4734-AD27-CB36E2C30B59 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:34:55Z 2020-04-22T06:34:55Z 2020-04-22T06:34:55Z 0 51.33317946718154 12.4036723669615 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Neanderthals or Homo erectus, had cannibalistic tendencies. But if they ate their own kind, it was for ritual purposes, not dietary purposes. Again, humans just don’t provide enough calories to compete with something like a mammoth, which would have provided a (totally worth it) 3.6 million calories
21 7CD9FA34-B80B-4A89-8711-CF6F920D89D5 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:36:02Z 2020-04-22T06:36:02Z 2020-04-22T06:36:02Z 0 51.33311117236514 12.40366741139765 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 hákarl or fermented shark, which is a beloved national dish in Iceland. The shark is buried, fermented, and hung to dry for months until its debut as a pungent, rotten treat.)
22 7965FF25-0FC2-440D-BA14-5B5BD0F578C8 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:37:07Z 2020-04-22T06:37:07Z 2020-04-22T06:37:07Z 0 51.33326414731066 12.40334296907688 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Even if the animal you ate had some sort of disease, most diseases are not zoonotic. That is to say, a human can’t get an animal disease by eating that animal. (Ebola is one of the rare exceptions.) But if you’re going to eat a human corpse it’s a different story. It is possible to contract blood-borne viruses such hepatitis B or HIV. Unlike when you eat animals, if you eat diseased human flesh, you could end up suffering from the same illness.
23 3C65AE85-D644-4FF8-AA39-876F39770A83 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:38:16Z 2020-04-22T06:38:16Z 2020-04-22T06:38:16Z 0 51.33313684399542 12.40356420725142 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Humans can have abnormal proteins called prions. These proteins have lost their shape and proper function, and infect other, normal proteins. Unlike a virus or an infection, prions don’t have DNA or RNA, so they can’t be killed by heat or radiation. They’re tough little suckers that like to hang out in the brain and spinal column, spreading lesions and chaos. When talking about prions, scientists often point to the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. As late as the 1950s, anthropologists documented an epidemic of a neurological disease called kuru that was killing members of the tribe. Kuru is a disease caused by prions in the brain. The spread of kuru was traced to the tribe’s ritual of eating of human brains after death. The infected suffer from muscle spasms, dementia, and uncontrollable laughing or crying. The end result is a brain literally full of holes—and then death
24 85C5809D-269E-4A79-A636-7CBCD399A026 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:40:16Z 2020-04-22T06:40:16Z 2020-04-22T06:40:16Z 0 51.33324531314521 12.40348109026645 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 The Yarkon Cemetery in Israel has started adding burial towers that will ultimately hold 250,000 graves. The towers even respect Jewish custom by filling the burial columns with dirt so that the graves are connected to the earth. At the moment, the world’s tallest cemetery is in Brazil. Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica III contains thirty-two stories of graves, and also has a restaurant, concert hall, and gardens filled with exotic birds. When I was in Tokyo, Japan, I visited a multistory building that houses thousands of cremated remains (delivered to personal visiting rooms by automatic conveyors that locate and fetch the correct urn)
25 F514887D-EBBE-476A-A925-349956DBB1F8 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:42:42Z 2020-04-22T06:42:42Z 2020-04-22T06:42:42Z 0 51.33321134404212 12.40346390338805 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 In Singapore, for every square mile there are more than 18,000 people. Every. Square. Mile. 18,000. People. In the United States, for every square mile there are only 92 people.
26 485B0E2D-E873-49CA-AB58-F3E6E094D4AF 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:44:44Z 2020-04-22T06:44:44Z 2020-04-22T06:44:44Z 0 51.3332780072871 12.40335988533181 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 not all near-death experiences are created equal. Not everyone finds themselves walking into a sparkling white light while scenes of childhood pets and awkward job interviews pass before their eyes. In one study, about half of the people who had a near-death experience said they were fully aware they were dead (which could be good or bad, depending on how chill with death you are). One in four people said they had an out-of-body experience. Only one in three actually moved through the good ol’ tunnel. Also, some bad news: we imagine NDEs as being positive and blissful, but that was only true about half the time. Turns out they can be pretty terrifying, too.
27 48DF4E17-A72C-4932-A5E8-2404E40589E0 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:49:59Z 2020-04-22T06:49:59Z 2020-04-22T06:49:59Z 0 51.33340826907205 12.40373781249704 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Religious folks may see the light as a supernatural gateway to the afterlife; scientists may see the light as caused by oxygen deprivation in the brain
28 A4BF96D3-4D3E-4A05-9FA7-7C1431247092 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:50:29Z 2020-04-22T06:50:29Z 2020-04-22T06:50:29Z 0 51.33313187386248 12.40360474920343 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Scientists believe that seeing this light at the end of the tunnel is the result of retinal ischemia, which happens when there isn’t enough blood reaching the eye. As less blood flows to the eyes, vision is reduced. Being in a state of extreme fear can also cause retinal ischemia. Both fear and decrease in oxygen are associated with dying. In this context, the extreme white tunnel vision characteristic of NDEs starts to make much more sense.
29 CCE34C40-F2A7-4B9D-8FB8-C6E680DC32AF 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:51:35Z 2020-04-22T06:51:35Z 2020-04-22T06:51:35Z 0 51.33329482285431 12.40364259648123 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 necrophages, the unsung heroes of the natural world. They are the death eaters, the organisms that fuel up by consuming dead and rotting things
30 0CCE3637-107E-4D26-8464-91FF655F18FF 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:54:31Z 2020-04-22T06:54:31Z 2020-04-22T06:54:31Z 0 51.33293946208754 12.40374112690689 Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 why don’t they eat bones, too? The simple answer is that eating bones is hard work. Not only that, but bones are not nutritionally useful to insects. Bones are mostly made of calcium, something insects just don’t need a lot of. Since they don’t need much calcium, insects like dermestids haven’t evolved to consume it or desire it
31 D670B3E4-D54B-4E4E-B8A1-71C7801AD636 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:55:35Z 2020-04-22T06:55:35Z 2020-04-22T06:55:35Z 0 51.33322607376345 12.40368501492717 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 So, while dermestids and other flesh-eating bugs do not usually eat bone, if they get hungry enough, they will. Humans behave the same way. When Paris was under siege in the late sixteenth century, the city was starving. When people inside the city ran out of cats and dogs and rats to eat, they began disinterring bodies from the mass graves in the cemetery. They took the bones and ground them into flour to make what became known as Madame de Montpensier’s bread. Bone appetit! (Actually, maybe don’t bone appetit, as many who ate the bone bread died themselves.)
32 88349039-88D4-454E-B8D9-94C65DC27E84 2 2 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:56:52Z 2020-04-22T06:56:52Z 2020-04-22T06:56:52Z 0 51.33330624333909 12.40354514751025 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 There is strong evidence that bone worms have been eating giant marine reptiles since the time of the dinosaurs. That means the whale eaters are older than whales themselves.
33 949FED16-150A-4200-8C75-BED6C1BB6E84 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-22T06:59:55Z 2020-04-22T06:59:55Z 2020-04-22T06:59:55Z 0 51.33326913673976 12.40356814886445 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Other cultures gave up on burial entirely. High in the mountains of Tibet, where the ground is often too rocky and frozen for burial, and where not enough trees grow to perform cremations, a different kind of death ritual developed. To this day, bodies are laid out in an open area for a sky burial, a lovely name for the dead body being consumed by vultures. Your cat might eat you after you die, but a vulture can’t wait to rip you to pieces and carry you off into the sky.
34 F530E5B8-3E18-4089-898F-22C3756BBD34 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-23T06:16:09Z 2020-04-23T06:16:09Z 2020-04-23T06:16:09Z 0 51.33337047680838 12.4034332761469 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 As they break down their brand-new food source—your dead body—the microbes give off gas made of VOCs, or volatile organic compounds. The prime stinkers here tend to be sulfur-containing compounds, which makes sense if you’ve ever experienced an especially potent and sulfuric eggy fart. Sulfur is the culprit in many a stink.
35 85A7852B-FB64-4740-9F5E-E6663499F602 2 0 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty 2020-04-23T06:33:14Z 2020-04-23T06:33:14Z 2020-04-23T06:33:14Z 0 51.33342240539643 12.40362916382752 Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Saxony Germany 0 Sometimes, larger bones, like thigh bones, require two people to pick up the bone at once. And sometimes the family will pass bone fragments to one another, chopsticks to chopsticks. This is the only time passing something between chopsticks is not considered rude. If you were to do this in public, with, say, a pork sparerib at a restaurant, it would be like bringing a funeral ritual to the dinner table. Total faux pas.
36 ED307F41-88BE-411B-A557-1157CE856DE8 2 0 Babel R. F. Kuang 2023-02-07T14:56:10Z 2023-02-07T14:56:10Z 2023-02-07T14:56:10Z 0 45.10420249850454 5.742597241511231 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 The abolitionist movement you know is a load of pomp. Rhetoric only. Pitt first raised the motion because he saw the need to cut off the slave trade to France. And Parliament got on board with the abolitionists because they were so very afraid of Black insurrection in the West Indies.’ ‘So you think it’s purely risk and economics.’ ‘Well, not necessarily. You brother likes to argue that the Jamaican slave revolt, failed though it was, is what impelled the British to legislate abolition. He’s right, but only half right. See, the revolt won British sympathy because the leaders were part of the Baptist church, and when it failed, proslavery whites in Jamaica started destroying chapels and threatening missionaries. Those Baptists went back to England and drummed up support on the grounds of religion, not natural rights. My point being, abolition happened because white people found reasons to care – whether those be economic or religious. You just have to make them think they came up with the idea themselves. You can’t appeal to their inner goodness. I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.’
37 D5EC6BE7-58DB-4E7E-8717-31ECBE11F8FE 2 0 Babel R. F. Kuang 2023-02-08T07:58:12Z 2023-02-08T07:58:12Z 2023-02-08T07:58:12Z 0 45.10420267773596 5.74259767871893 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 Strikers in this country never won broad public support, for the public merely wanted all the conveniences of modern life without the guilt of knowing how those conveniences were procured.
38 70FC0FBF-8BF3-4C03-AD90-864B8CD028FE 2 0 Babel R. F. Kuang 2023-02-08T08:27:23Z 2023-02-08T08:27:23Z 2023-02-08T08:27:23Z 0 45.10420148905155 5.742597357615256 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 The tactics of revolt spread fast. The British textile workers picked up these techniques of barricade from the 1831 and 1834 Canut revolts by silk workers in Lyon. Those revolts had been brutally repressed – but, crucially, they did not hold the backbone of the entire nation hostage
39 10E7ED24-7F91-4DF2-B852-4AE6D5336111 2 0 Babel R. F. Kuang 2023-02-09T20:45:43Z 2023-02-09T20:45:43Z 2023-02-09T20:45:43Z 0 45.10420123431852 5.742597001332137 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 ‘It’s like I’ve known you forever.’ ‘Me too,’ Ramy said. ‘And that makes no sense,’ said Robin, drunk already, though there was no alcohol in the cordial. ‘Because I’ve known you for less than a day, and yet . . .’ ‘I think,’ said Ramy, ‘it’s because when I speak, you listen.’ ‘Because you’re fascinating.’ ‘Because you’re a good translator.’ Ramy leaned back on his elbows. ‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands
40 DAFA053F-19A9-4AA5-9A7D-22CF569281DA 2 0 Babel R. F. Kuang 2023-02-09T20:59:12Z 2023-02-09T20:59:12Z 2023-02-09T20:59:12Z 0 45.10418836497428 5.742602536574182 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 Victoire knows better. Victory is not assured. Victory may be in the portents, but it must be urged there by violence, by suffering, by martyrs, by blood. Victory is wrought by ingenuity, persistence, and sacrifice. Victory is a game of inches, of historical contingencies where everything goes right because they have made it go right.
41 0EBECEC5-9E72-4625-922A-C068BD4EE6BC 2 0 Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 2023-02-11T10:12:17Z 2023-02-11T10:12:17Z 2023-02-11T10:12:17Z 0 45.10421600393487 5.742588003722739 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 In other words, while it has always been known that official Soviet publications served propaganda purposes and were utterly unreliable, it now appears that reliable source and statistical material probably never existed anywhere
42 A1AFD977-E93D-4760-AC61-7E8ACC568D96 2 0 Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 2023-02-11T10:21:12Z 2023-02-11T10:21:12Z 2023-02-11T10:21:12Z 0 45.10420096244634 5.742582390092738 226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, France Jarrie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France 0 Absolute monarchy, no doubt, was a very different affair in Spain, in France, in England, in Prussia; still it was everywhere the same form of government. Decisive in our context is that totalitarian government is different from dictatorships and tyrannies; the ability to distinguish between them is by no means an academic issue which could be safely left to the "theoreticians," for total domination is the only form of government with which coexistence is not possible