Monday 8 January 2018

Sentences that tell stories

1. "Parcell, 26, could pass for an aspiring model in New York or L.A., but in Utah, she looks like an ordinary mom." From here.

2. "The amount of concrete used by China in the last 4 years is equal to the quantity used by the USA in 100 years" and "In Indonesia, several islands near Jakarta have disappeared because of illegal extraction [of sand]." From here.

3. "Before he laid down even a dot of paint, Vermeer would have weighed, ground, burned, sifted, heated, cooled, kneaded, washed, filtered, dried and oiled his colours", often in pretty unpleasant ways. From here.

4. "We propose that class is inversely related to a propensity for using wise reasoning" (and there's evidence to back that up). From here.

5. "The first event, the Key Box Challenge, is a form of competitive OCD: Valets must sprint to a locked key box, match a dozen or so keys with their corresponding vehicle tags, hang them correctly on a metal door, then sprint back to the finish line. It seemed simple, but it was chaos." From here

6. "“I voted for Brexit but some Lord who failed in their attempts to be elected as an MP and got appointed by the Tories to an unelected post resigned in protest whilst skiing in Austria” // “I’ve changed my mind!!!”". From here (Owen Jones making sense).

7. "As you can see, Bitcoin dwarfs even the legendary South Sea Bubble!" From here. And here's a lovely little graph for you (the yellow line includes the legendary Wall Street Crash of 1929):

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