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The Australian island state is trying to drum up tourism during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter Searching for a new job? Tasmania is looking for curious, adventurous professionals to fill a wide array of unusual roles—including a “wombat walker,” who will be responsible for taking the stocky marsupials on their morning jaunts and feeding them snacks. Tasmania has posted a series of “odd jobs” in a bid to boost tourism during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter, which runs from June to August. All of the gigs are unpaid, though the local tourism board will cover the cost of travel, lodging and food.
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"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.
A 30 minute video about the origin and evolution of fonts - or technically correctly: typefaces
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_scores_another_ringed_world_with_new_image_of_Uranus https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_scores_another_ringed_world_with_new_image_of_Uranus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIksHVxEH2c
https://www.deviantart.com/varuas/art/Yet-Another-Optical-Illusion-182701249
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https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/940101439430332417
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOjSQeO1Dg https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/digital-universe
https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/v5er5l/my_6000_rooftop_telescope_vs_16_billion_hubble/ Props to k2qogir
Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army half-track convoy forming up on the beach. Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/26-G-2517.html Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colourized-pictures-of-the-world-wars-and-other-periods-in-time/182158581977012
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https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1194941709714460677 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis https://michaelbach.de/ot/col-chromostereopsis/index.html
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-last-photos-from-the-surface-of-venus-are-forty-years-old/
https://philip-kearney.com/?p=148
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27295/curiosity-views-gediz-vallis/