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racist tries to make a “Blue Lives Matter” tee shirt as gaeilge, accidentally writes “Black Lives Matter” instead. perfect
(tags: racists duh stupid translation fail daoine-gorme irish blm cops funny)
New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second | AWS Blog
Looks like the EC2 Networking team got their way and got to rewrite LBs in AWS
(tags: load-balancing aws elb alb nlb networking ec2 ops architecture)
The solution to the Voynich manuscript
To those who have studied medieval medicine, and possess a good knowledge of its origins, the classical physicians Galen (AD 129–210), Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Soranus (AD 98–138) among them, the Voynich manuscript’s incorporation of an illustrated herbarium (collection of plant remedies), Zodiac charts, instructions on thermae (baths) and a diagram showing the influence of the Pleiades side by side will not be surprising. They are all in tune with contemporary medical treatises, part and parcel of the medieval world of health and healing. Bathing as a remedy is a time-honoured tradition: practised by the Greeks and the Romans, advocated by the classical physicians, and sustained during the Middle Ages. The central theme of the Voynich manuscript is just such an activity, and one of its chief characteristics is the presence of naked female figures immersed in some concoction or other. Classical and medieval medicine had separate divisions devoted to the complaints and diseases of women, mostly but not exclusively in the area of gynaecology, and covered other topics such as hygiene, food, purgatives, bloodletting, fumigations, tonics, tinctures and even cosmetics and perfumes: all involved “taking the waters”, by bathing or ingesting.
(tags: history voynich-manuscript codes medieval-medicine thermae herbaria)
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You do not need to be a Stanford student or faculty or staff member to access the vast treasures of the Rumsey Map collection, nor do you need to visit the university or its new Center. Since 1996, the Rumsey collection’s online database has been open to all, currently offering anyone with an internet connection access to 67,000 maps from all over the globe, spanning five centuries of cartography.
(via Oisin)(tags: via:oisin maps art graphics open-access mapping history david-rumsey collections)