dantheclamman @ dantheclamman @lemmy.world

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Carlos Finlay (Cuban epidemiologist who discovered yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes)

Pride flag

Rubber bullet

Oxbow lake

Kei car (ultra-compact Japanese car category)

Vernadsky Research Base (Ukrainian Antarctic base)

Tumbleweed

Trump Always Chickens Out

Clarke's three laws (adages from Arthur C. Clarke on science fiction)

Miliarium (Roman milestone)

Diapering

Pteridomania (Victorian craze for ferns)

Hippie trail

Wardian case (early terrarium design)

VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI

Smiley (happy face)

Augury (Roman practice of observing bird behavior for omens)

27 Club (myth claiming celebrity artists are more likely to die at age 27)

Kanban (production scheduling system using cards, developed at Toyota)

Yamaki Pine (bonsai that survived the Hiroshima bombing)