Albums are a great statement from artists but in the history of recorded music the LP phonograph or album is relatively new, introduced in 1948. Before then artists basically only released singles. In a way the album was originally a value purchase; instead of buying 7 different singles you could buy one LP for a lower price. It’s almost more like the modern “greatest hits” albums successful musicians release.

I don’t think it’s fair to outright dismiss someone who’s only releasing singles; it’s not actually a new phenomenon. Maybe they’re not saying as much as people releasing albums, but not all albums are really carrying a concept or bigger thought, either. Not everything needs to be a novel; there’s a place for short articles or random comments online.

New records are ridiculously priced! There are jewels hidden in thrift store bins or in some of the more "messy" looking record stores for very reasonable prices. Digging through the pictures and the names you may or may not know, to select albums based on their title and cover: there's an incredible charm to that. I visit a lot of record stores, the ones that look too neatly organised and every single record is in a sealed shrink wrap, are the ones I leave rather quickly. I want my record store to look and feel like an old attic :)

That's good I'll admit it took awhile.

Did you mean water drop? Because I thought it was precisely two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms that make up a single water molecule...

From ancient Rome when they thought sneezing was an omen and may dislodge and expel the soul from the body (Pliny the Elder, Suetonius, Homer).

In Germany we say (literally) "Health" as in "Get better"

The english language has a lot of religious language hidden away in expressions

For example, goodbye is just a shortening of "god be with ye"

"langaige"

Seinfeld suggested: "You're soooo good looking!"

Now that's rude :(

Can some one ask him how feels without lego?

Nothing new under the sun.

Many government departments and private companies consider faxed documents as a duplicated "original", instead of a copy. Because that totally makes sense.

I can't exactly recommend the service which can be a bit annoying but clicksend allows you to send faxes and actually letters for pretty cheap. the letter thing is pretty nice when something demands a physical one. you upload a pdf and it gets printed and mailed out. fax works same way. fax is way cheaper obviously.

Why did target and Hyundai need to know your dad died?

It already has. Vast majority of companies still handling fax are using VoIP fax modems with digital receivers that turn it into a PDF. I haven't seen a functioning copper landline probably since 2015...

I think the reason I didn't know it is because it isn't true.

Unless you're a Lincoln truther who thinks he wasn't killed in 1865 way before fax machines were available in the USA and Japan.

comes to sensitive data.

not really. there's no encryption to faxing, and the software to fax from pc's directly (enabling faked records for example) has been ubiquitous since the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFax

Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there's still a place for fax, it's essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that's not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody's first choice, but I think it's still valid.

Sorry to disappoint but alligators are not closely related to dinosaurs even though they have existed for a long time. Birds on the other hand are dinosaurs.

The chicken I ate last night is more closely related to dinosaurs then the alligator.

Litteral little living roombas.

Hmmm if they would get along with cats?

One I've heard recently was...the hair styles you see on ancient Roman art look remarkably modern. Art historians got to wondering just how they managed such complex hairstyles without modern hairspray, plastic clips or elastic bands? A hairstylist took one look and said "They're sewn." The historians go "NAAAAAH that can't be it. Whoever heard of sewing hair?" The hairstylist goes "Hairstylists. Watch" and then she replicated the styles on the statues by sewing.

Here's another one: Marine biologists long struggled to understand/describe the shapes of certain marine life, including corals. They had these weird wavy patterns that didn't make sense to us rectangle building monkeys. Meanwhile, a mathematician studying hyperbolic geometry realized that crochet patterns that add loops with every row achieve wavy ruffles in a hyperbolic pattern. It took a few others to piece those two ideas together, to recognize the coral structures as having hyperbolic geometry as a means of maximizing surface area while minimizing volume. The Crochet Coral Reef project has been making crocheted models of sea life ever since.

As a woodworker, it amazes me how the mortise and tenon is still hanging on.

If you aren't familiar, a mortise is a square or rectangular hole in a board, might go all the way through, might not. A tenon is a square peg basically cut on the end of a board to fit into a mortise. This produces a very strong joint.

The very oldest intact wooden structure known on earth - a well head in Germany - is held together with mortise and tenons. We don't know the name of the man who built it, because written language hadn't been invented yet.

There is a thing called a floating tenon. Imagine you want to join two boards, but don't really want to cut a tenon onto either. Make a mortise in each, then make a third smaller board to fill both tenons. Floating tenon, loose tenon, there are many words for it. The Ancient Egyptians held boat hulls together this way, the hull planks were joined edge to edge with loose tenons which were then cross-pinned with dowels. One such boat was found disassembled in a pit next to the Great Pyramid at Giza; the seal on the chamber was so good they said it smelled of cedar when opened. The ship was assembled and is currently on display.

All the way on this end of history, the European tool brand Festool has a tool called a Domino. It has the form factor of a Lamello-type biscuit joiner, but the domino cuts with a wagging router bit to form a wide, short, deep mortise to insert store bought loose tenons into. This tool is so new, it is still protected under patent.

We've been making mortise and tenons for tens of thousands of years, and yet we're still innovating on the concept.

Wow, that was an evolutionary dark alley.