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Mon. 10/05 - Vending Machine Operators Are Trending

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Archaeologists have found evidence of neurons in the brain of a Mount Vesuvius victim that basically turned to glass. The latest entrepreneurial trend of the pandemic taking off, in part thanks to influencers? Vending machine ownership. A Wikipedia hack for learning new-to-you complex topics. And another U.S. president whose illness had the potential to throw the nation into chaos. Sponsor: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/REPORT Links: Archaeologists find evidence of neurons in glassy brain of Vesuvius victim (Ars Technica) The economics of vending machines (The Hustle) Simple Wikipedia George Washington nearly died from the flu. (Washington Post) George Washington (Brad Neeley, YouTube) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Archaeologists have found evidence of neurons in the brain of a Mount Vesuvius victim that basically turned to glass.

0:50.6

The latest entrepreneurial trend of the pandemic taking off, in part thanks to influencers,

0:56.7

vending machine ownership, a Wikipedia hack for learning new to you complex topics,

1:03.9

and another U.S. president whose illness had the potential to throw the nation into chaos.

1:10.2

Here are some cool things from the news today.

1:16.6

Archaeologists have found evidence of neurons in the brain of a Mount Vesuvius victim,

1:21.7

thanks to the fact that the heat of the volcano essentially turned the brain to glass.

1:29.8

First of all, in terms of how rare it is to find a brain this old, quoting Ars Technica, according to Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist

1:35.5

at Teaside University in the UK, brains don't typically survive for long after death.

1:41.9

It's one of the earliest things to decompose in a standard decompositional

1:45.5

context, he told ours, but it is not unprecedented. Brain tissue does preserve, and it's a lot more

1:52.0

common than people imagine. Alexander Hayward, a graduate student in so-called paleo-prodeomics

1:57.8

at the University of Copenhagen and Denmark Denmark told ours, to date she has located

2:02.3

some 1300 preserved brains dating back to the mid-16th and mid-17th centuries.

2:08.4

The Vesuvian preserved brain studied by Petroni A. All is very old, although not the oldest,

2:14.1

and unusual in terms of the hypothesis proposed about the precise mechanism

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