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20 years ago today, ‘Over The Hedge’ released in theaters.

20,000 French women were shaved & paraded by French men themselves. After France’s liberation in World War II (1944), around 20,000 women accused of “horizontal collaboration” had their heads shaved in public. Many French women were punished over rumors or for aiding Germans.

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Every electron in the universe might be the same electron. In 1940, John Wheeler called Richard Feynman and suggested that the reason every electron has exactly the same mass and charge, to a precision we cannot even measure a deviation from, is that there is only one of them. A single electron, weaving forwards and backwards through time, threading through every moment of cosmic history, appearing as matter when it moves one way and as its antiparticle when it moves the other. The idea was never proven, but it was never quite killed either. The math allows it. An electron going backwards in time is mathematically identical to a positron going forwards, and the equations do not care which description you pick. If Wheeler was right, then the particle in your retina reading this sentence is the same particle burning in the heart of a star ten billion light years away. You are not made of many things. You are made of one thing, seen from many angles at once.