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ReHacked vol. 290: Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published and more

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'World's oldest paper boy' finally retires at the age of 82 after seven decades in the job as there's 'nothing else to achieve' | Daily Mail Online #interesting

A man believed to be one of the world's oldest paper boys has who has worked nonstop for 70 years has finally decided to retire.

Joe Wardman, 82, took over the family business, Wardmans Newsagents, with his mother following his father’s death in 1964, running it until his retirement in 2011.

His father, Richard, co-founded the newsagents in Barrow Cumbria in 1922.

Joe began delivering papers to homes and businesses in 1954, at the age of 11, while still in school.

Even after retiring, Joe continued delivering papers voluntarily, handing over his final delivery to staff at the town's White Lion pub on September 21.


Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment,’ dies at 91 | Stanford Report #promemoria

Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist whose research examined how social situations shape people’s behavior, died Oct. 14.


Astropedia - Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, 1:5M, 2020 #nature


Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published | Polygon #fun

In 1956, following the lukewarm reception of his first novel, Player Piano, Vonnegut was one of the 16 million other World War II veterans struggling to put food on the table. His moneymaking solution at the time was a board game called GHQ, which leveraged his understanding of modern combined arms warfare and distilled it into a simple game played on an eight-by-eight grid. Vonnegut pitched the game relentlessly to publishers all year long according to game designer and NYU faculty member Geoff Engelstein, who recently found those letters sitting in the archives at Indiana University. But the real treasure was an original set of typewritten rules, complete with Vonnegut’s own notes in the margins.


RUBINGHSCIENCE.ORG / Using Euro coins as weights #lifehack


Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 "The Warty Warthog Release" - Ubuntu 20 years anniversary #software #history


Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin | PCMag #software

The browser is doing so as part of Google's plan to phase out older Manifest V2 extensions to bolster Chrome's security. Still, some uBlock Origin users aren't happy about the change.


Scientists Discover Animals Beneath the Ocean Floor, Offering Clues to Life Beyond Earth #nature

A team of researchers has discovered macroscopic life beneath the seafloor of the deep ocean, one of Earth’s most extreme environments.

The discovery both complicates scientists’ understanding of the living communities around hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, and offers a tantalizing glimpse at what life may look like beyond Earth. Though researchers knew life existed in and around the hydrothermal vents, whether living things made use of the sediments beneath the miles of seawater itself was not clear.


Archaeologists uncover one of the world's oldest churches: "Sensational testimony to early Christianity" - CBS News #history

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Germany's University of Münster, which partnered with a team at the Armenian Academy of Sciences on the archaeological dig, announced the discovery Friday and called it "a sensational testimony to early Christianity in Armenia."


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