Machu Picchu not actually called Machu Picchu: “researchers conclude that the Incas originally called it Huayna Picchu, for the rocky summit that lies nearest to the site, and not Machu Picchu, which is the name of the highest mountain near the ancient city.”
It wasn’t the cold that drove the Vikings out of Greenland: it was drought. Since I also come from a Viking colony, this caught my eye.
Microplastics found in human blood for the first time. Internalised Timothy Morton hyperobject. Per Johanna Gunzl, quoted here:
Looking at microplastics as hyperobjects triggers us to think of them as a very complex, multidimensional problem that might need several solutions to attack them.
(That bit from HURRICANE SEASON about floating corpses and plastic bags. Now we are the floating corpses and the floating plastic bag.)
This has nothing to do with anything else: A short documentary from 1969 on the traditional forging of a Japanese sword, narrated by George Takei.
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