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Sarah Bennett
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Finance & Tech | Politics | Sports Red wine, golf & places worth remembering Irish born 🇮🇪 • U.S. 🇺🇸 (10 years) More than meets the eye
LA Katılım Ekim 2017
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@scabberslosttoe I like that. Nature never asks for permission it simply does what it is 🌸
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@XFreeze It’s impressive to see how far autonomous driving has come, especially in edge cases like unclear road markings. Still, I think real-world consistency will be the real benchmark
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@depressionlesss The way we treat animals actually defines who we are
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Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!
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David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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Falcon 9 is vertical at pad 4E in California ahead of tonight’s launch of the CAS500-2 mission with 45 payloads on board. The 37-minute launch window opens at 11:59 p.m. PT → spacex.com/launches/cas50…


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Many scholars believe Rivendell was inspired by a real place. Tolkien hiked there in the summer of 1911. He was 19 years old, and the valley left a mark on him so deep that more than 50 years later he was still describing it from memory...
The valley is called Lauterbrunnen. It sits in the Bernese Oberland, in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
Tolkien went on foot, "carrying a great pack, in a party of twelve." They walked from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen, then up to Mürren, and finally to the head of the valley in what he later called a wilderness of moraines. They slept in haylofts and cowsheds. They ate in the open. They walked by map, mostly avoiding the roads.
Goethe had stood at the foot of those same falls more than a century before Tolkien did. The poem he wrote about them, Song of the Spirits Over the Waters, was published in 1779.
There is something about this valley that has always pulled writers toward it — as if its sheer scale and beauty demand a response, and ordinary language keeps falling short…
In 1967, at the age of 75, Tolkien wrote to his son Michael describing the 1911 trip in detail. He called it the "very part of the world that had the deepest effect on me."
That is what this valley does. You walk into it once, and it follows you for the rest of your life...
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