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  The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore

  PCMag - JD Sartain

  An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it. IBM thinks …

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  The happiest man in the world has psychotic delusions

  bigthink.com - Pagan Kennedy

  Several years ago, a British man named Harry picked his nose. A hidden camera recorded him in this private moment, then someone uploaded the video to …

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  6 days ago

  How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?

  thecollector.com - Natalie Noland

  It is estimated that the average person makes over 35,000 decisions a day; that’s about one every two seconds! From what to wear to what to eat to …

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  2,000-Year-Old Hologram Ring Features Face of 1st-Century Woman’s Deceased Son

  My Modern Met - Madeleine Muzdakis

  Representations carved into stone have a long history. From Roman busts to Victorian cameos, stone likenesses capture those who were loved and lost. Cameos in particular are a wearable reminder of loved ones or tributes to mythical figures and great leaders. Crafted since ancient days, they can be …

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  Researchers discover the oldest living creature on Earth, originating 700 million years ago

  thebrighterside.news - JD Shavit

  .For more than a century, the question of what the earliest animals looked like when they emerged in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago …

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  73 pre-Incan mummies, some with 'false heads,' unearthed from Wari Empire in Peru

  Live Science - Owen Jarus

  Several dozen burials from the Wari culture, which prospered in the region before the Inca took over, were unearthed in Peru. Two wooden staffs were …