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Social Worker – Health and Political Advocate Cynthia is an Infectious Disease Medical Case Manager where she works with people living with HIV in the city of Chicago. She authors a blog called freedmenhealthandwellness.com which speaks on the social determinants of health of Black Americans that descend from Chattel Slavery. She has been a guest on several podcasts and is a regular host on the Non-Prophets produced by the Atheist Community of Austin and Women Atheist Unload produced by the Promethean Secular Frontier (PSF) channel. Cynthia is also a health and political advocate that works with various organizations in Chicago and nationally to achieve social and economic justice for Black Freedmen Descendants, push for health equity for marginalized groups in the United States, and normalizing Atheism amongst the Black Community. Cynthia is also a musician that writes and performs a variety of genres of music including Classical, R&B, and Dance. Link tree: https://ift.tt/xXL5HaT

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Against the backdrop of a brutal war, thousands of young Ukrainian hippies gathered in the mountains for a giant party: the annual Shypit Festival. Nudity, psychedelics, and dancing around the fire chanting “**** Putin” ensued.

For many, this was their last chance to party before being conscripted to the front lines.

But then the Ukrainian military showed up and began drafting the young revelers. While it may have ruined the party for some, these hippies are mostly keen to fight. In fact, they may be the first hippies in history who WANT to go to war…

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Humanity invented the harp before we invented the wheel. Wild. In this video, Sabrina explores why it took humanity so long to invent the wheel and challenges her friends to redo it in a day.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anthony, D. W. (2010). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world. Princeton University Press.
Gambino, M. (2009, June 17). A salute to the wheel. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from https://ift.tt/DR9LFev
Staff, F. M. (2017, March 7). DK science: Machines. Retrieved August 30, 2022, from https://ift.tt/xJ8TQBi
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Brittanica. (2022, August 24). simple machine. Retrieved August 30, 2022, from Encyclopedia Britannica website: https://ift.tt/w7i3nQa
Wolchover, N. (2012, March 6). Why it took so long to invent the wheel. Retrieved August 26, 2022, from Scientific American website: https://ift.tt/F5napAS

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00:00 oooh so edgy lmao
00:13 paying the bills
01:35 how long did it take to invent the wheel
02:19 do you know what the wheel is
03:28 send in the clowns begins to play
05:02 why the wheel took so long to invent
06:28 when plans fall apart
07:27 the delusions settle in
08:43 why the wheel took so long to perfect
09:52 melissa doesn’t know what a tractor is
10:59 they made thing
12:16 let’s try and break them
12:52 melissa DEFINITELY doesn’t know what a tractor is
13:00 testing the bare minimum
14:21 how the wheel spread
14:38 whoa was that a drone shot?
15:17 call melissa ferrari
15:35 how the wheel change transport
15:55 ngl this was not a well designed test
17:39 don’t reinvent the wheel. engage instead.

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At some point Melissa stole one of Taha’s wheel’s during the build… he worked tirelessly to catch up.

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Somewhere on your street there may be a house that isn’t a house; instead, there may be essential city infrastructure like electrical substations, tunnel ventilation, or a water pump hiding inside. In this video, Sabrina drags Taha and Melissa along to figure out what is inside some fake buildings in New York, Paris, and Toronto and why they needed to be hidden in the first place.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aesthetic Justice and Urban Planning (2002). Hanna Mattila via Geojournal.
The Architecture of Deceit (2013). Meg Van Huygen via AtlasObscura.com.
Artist Project / Transformer Houses (2006). Robin Collyer via Cabinet Magazine.
The built environment and mental health (2003). Evans via J Urban Health
Comment by M.S. Smith on Transformer Houses (2006) via BLDGBLOG.
Fresh Air for Tunnel: Plant Site Purchased (1907) via New York Tribune.
Powering Urban Growth (2019). Tom Odell via YouTube.
Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations. Steve via WebUrbanist.
Harold Alphonso Bodwell via Bodwellfamily.org
Housing In My Backyard: A Municipal Guide For Responding To NIMBY(2009). Affordability and Choice Today.
The Toronto City Directory 1912 via Archive.org
Turning on Toronto Exhibit via City of Toronto.
Toronto neighbourhood residents upset (2021). Kamil Karamali via GlobalNews
What’s Inside This House on Wade Avenue? (2014). Eric Mennel via North Carolina Public Radio.
Who Participates in Local Government (2018). Einstein et al. via Perspectives on Politics.

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00:00 this building is real… SIKE
00:26 paying the bills
01:38 down the rabbit hole
02:15 paris is a 2 minute walk away
03:06 a fake building in a haystack made of fake buildings
03:45 what is a fake building?
04:30 what is inside fake buildings?
05:58 why do fake buildings exist?
06:41 an irrelevant side quest that took too much time so now you need to see it
08:40 why are oil companies trying to act slick
09:25 a call to beef with the nimbys
10:50 an alternative plea for good design
12:01 it’s just so ugly lmaoo

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Some of Toronto’s most famous substations are built in the Beaux-Arts style, and some it’s clown colleges in the Bozo-Arts style.

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This knowledge clip is about protected roundabouts, the safest form of an intersection. The design determines how safe it is for cyclists. Hans Godefrooij of DTV Consultants explains when to apply a roundabout and the basic guidelines for the design of a roundabout.

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Sacheen Littlefeather invites you to a special celebration of live Native American performances featuring a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy.

The event is sold out at the Academy Museum and will be livestreamed here on SEPTEMBER 17, 2022, at 5pm PDT. The livestream will be available on this channel for a week following the event, then replaced by a trimmed version for documentation.

*About Sacheen Littlefeather*
In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/AZ), a member of the Screen Actors Guild, became the first Native woman to stand onstage at the Academy Awards ceremony, on behalf of Marlon Brando. Sacheen did not accept his Best Actor award for THE GODFATHER (1972). She gave a passionate and moving 60-second speech regarding the stereotypes of Native Americans in the entertainment industry. She also brought attention to the 1973 Wounded Knee South Dakota protest. This historic television moment is significantly highlighted in the museum’s Academy Awards History gallery. As a result, Sacheen was professionally boycotted, personally harassed and attacked, and discriminated against for the last fifty years.

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Sacheen invites you to a special celebration of live Native American performances featuring a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy. The evening’s program will include a land acknowledgement courtesy of Virginia Carmelo (Tongva/So. CA), and a conversation between Sacheen and Academy Member, producer, and co-chair of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache/NM). Additional performers and speakers will include Academy CEO Bill Kramer, traditional vocalist and singer Calina Lawrence (Suquamish/WA), former Academy President David Rubin, current Academy President Janet Yang, emcee Earl Neconie (Kiowa/OK), emcee Jacqueline Stewart, Michael Bellanger (Ojibiway/MN & Kickapoo/OK) and the All Nation Singers and Dancers, Steve Bohay (Kiowa/OK) and the Sooner Nation Singers and Dancers, and the White Mountain Apache Crown Dancers (Apache/AZ).

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I like to think of this as the whole sky always being “there”, but the Earth blocks about half of it ALL THE TIME! Alternately, if we look straight “up”, we’re always pointed towards a different part of same sky. I made these reprocessed spherical timelapses to hopefully communicate these perspectives. I think it’s pretty incredible how the sky acts like an ever-changing window on our universe.

I shot this timelapse over the course of about a week. (the camera was pretty tired and I went through a bunch of 64BG SD cards…) I ended up finally capturing one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed up, and one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed down.
I was using a circular fisheye lens with a 185 degree field of view to capture the entire sky in a single photograph. I also flipped the camera over to take a picture of the ground and capture a full spherical image (albeit separated by a day). I did a whole lot of math and editing in Lightroom (twice for each of the “up” images), Matlab for color temporal smoothing, Davinci Resolve for stabilization and looping, back to Matlab for spherical “unfolding”, back to Resolve for compositing the top and bottom images, back to Matlab again for redistorting into the “tiny planet”, and finally back into resolve again for a final render. I also passed a few frames through Imagej in order to measure some angles I needed for the polar alignment and “star stabilization”. After all that I think it turned out pretty cool!

Camera:
Sony A6000 – Aperture priority, auto-ISO, AWB
Lensbaby circular fisheye (E-mount) – adjusted aperture at sunrise and sunset to control light)
External intervalometer set to 1:20/frame (enough time to process a max 30 second exposure and associated dark frame)
Case-relay power system (plugged into the wall, you can see the orange cable on the ground…)

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Tiny planet (APOD Featured!): https://youtu.be/14TrSQQsrNM
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Virtual reality timelapse: https://youtu.be/VGAkMqM5fnI

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Northern hemisphere star chart overlay – Couldn’t locate original author, shows up all over tineye…
Textures I used to make the intro 3D render:
Mercator projection of the world between 82°S and 82°N – by Strebe, Creative Commons
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Night sky rectilinear map – NASA Tycho Skymap https://ift.tt/Uck9fyT

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