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  1. Comment on The Lighting Budget of Thomas Jefferson in ~humanities.history

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    The sheer quantities of candles used in the 18th century is something I never really considered until reading this post. I love these small anecdotes about how much modern technology has disrupted...

    Jefferson's annual order of 200 lbs. of candles would thus provide him with a 15000 hours of single-candle illumination—add in other sources of illumination (lamp oil, etc.), and figure 50 hours for an average day, for Jefferson's establishment would not burn one single lone candle.

    The sheer quantities of candles used in the 18th century is something I never really considered until reading this post.

    For the same share of our income, we can produce, buy, and use 75000 times as much illumination as back in Jefferson's day.

    I love these small anecdotes about how much modern technology has disrupted (and simplified) daily life.

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  3. Comment on Holy molé: A beginner's guide to Mexico’s heaven-sent sauce in ~food

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    Molé is one of my favorite sauces and I’ve never tried making it from scratch. I’ll definitely try over the winter with all of the extra turkeys for sale.

    Molé is one of my favorite sauces and I’ve never tried making it from scratch. I’ll definitely try over the winter with all of the extra turkeys for sale.

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  4. Comment on Incredible 4K video of Earth from the ISS in ~space

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    This is some of the sharpest and most incredible orbital footage I've come across. Time-lapse sequences taken from the ISS was stitched together to create a series of real time videos. Images were...

    This is some of the sharpest and most incredible orbital footage I've come across.

    Time-lapse sequences taken from the ISS was stitched together to create a series of real time videos. Images were enhanced to fix artifacts and increase surface feature contrast. The film runs for the full length of an orbit but it is not a continuous video of a single orbit but a series stitched together.