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If I didn’t know this was Monk, and the sound was off, I’d think this was someone who didn’t have any idea how to play piano.

Thelonious Monk performing “Blue Monk” with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live at the University Aula in Oslo, Noway, 1966.



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Touching is one of the primary ways elephants communicate to show they care. This is a typical way you can recurrently see elephants when showing affection [read more: buff.ly/44VMpiq]


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good morning here is a 100 year old egg-shaped sewer.

neorsd's tweet image. good morning here is a 100 year old egg-shaped sewer.

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Something about Mars.. Mars was once a wet world with lakes of liquid water on its surface, and there's a great deal of evidence about it. This evidence includes ancient river valleys, craters filled with water ice, minerals that form in water and dark streaks... 1/


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RIP Ahmad Jamal. One of the greatest.

R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal, July 2, 1930 - April 16, 2023. Here he is performing “Ahmad’s Blues” with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums in 1959.



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なんと動いてません #エイプリルフール


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Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded: he didn't realize the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky until he got home and reviewed the pictures ow.ly/aNE250yrKFJ

Rainmaker1973's tweet image. Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded: he didn't realize the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky until he got home and reviewed the pictures ow.ly/aNE250yrKFJ

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Happy birthday to Buffy Sainte-Marie, born on this day in 1941 on the Piapot Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. Here she is demonstrating a mouth bow on Pete Seeger’s “Rainbow Quest” television show in 1966.


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Visualisation of birds migrating across Europe, tracked by GPS by 422south.com [read more: buff.ly/3w64dqx]


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It’s not every day you get to hear Duke Ellington make music with Louis Armstrong—but this happened in 1961.


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Homer’s  Odyssey  Virgil’s Aeneid Beowulf 35-Year-Old Lionel Messi rifling this shit home when his nation needed it, in the crucible of pressure with world watching – ranks right up there with the true Epics 🇦🇷


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Must Listen: Arabic commentatary as Saudi Arabia shock Lionel Messi’s Argentina with this exclamation point strike by Salem Al-Dawsari. Akin to watching a 16 seed drop a #1 in March Madness. Miracle on Ice with more sinister geopolitical undertones 🤯


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R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal, July 2, 1930 - April 16, 2023. Here he is performing “Ahmad’s Blues” with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums in 1959.



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LEEDS ARE A TENACIOUS BUNCH OF MOFOS. JESSE MARSCH LIVES TO PISS IN THE PUNCH


Amazing

French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together….. the outcome is fucking brilliant. 😂



The world is getting weird

Just taught Nozick’s Experience Machine for the hundredth time. All but one student were immediately and unreservedly in favor of entering the machine for life. Never had that happen before, rather threw off my lesson plan!



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When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of five or six whales, presumably for protection. 1/2

DrClaytonForre1's tweet image. When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of five or six whales, presumably for protection. 1/2

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“The modern environmental movement has to be about building things. There is nothing progressive about not enabling a clean energy transformation," Democrat Sen. @brianschatz told me


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(208) I think the hardest kinds of virtues to have are often not the virtue of being willing to suffer a lot, or to work really hard, but the virtue of being willing to live with extraordinary uncertainty, or to work on the right thing, or to check if you were wrong.


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