🌎 The Legal Status of Prostitution in Every Country; 4/9 of the World’s Nuclear Powers Are Now at War; Conch Shell Structure Mirrors the Harmonic Series

PLUS, a map of the Holy Roman Empire at its territorial peak in the 12th century.

Me and the boys, pretending like we’re not looking.

🌎 MAPPED: The Legal Status of Prostitution in Each Country

From Wikipedia via u/thedemonlord02

Source: Wikipedia via u/thedemonlord02

I didn’t know there were so many shades of legality 😅

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🐚 The Harmonic Series Found in a Conch Shell

Source: Photonsnare

Wtf.

That conch must be good as hell at making music.

If that conch could talk, it would prob say Mozart was a b****.

If I owned a record label, I would immediately sign that conch.

“We’re like Mad Decent, but for mollusks.”

For those of you who want to know the science behind this conch phenomenon, here’s from ChatGPT:

Conch shells grow in a logarithmic spiral, where each turn of the spiral increases in size by a constant factor. This is governed by the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio, which are also deeply connected to the proportions found in music.

Musical harmonics—the overtone series—are built on simple ratios (like 2:1, 3:2, 4:3), which define the relationships between frequencies of notes. These same kinds of ratios show up in natural growth patterns like spirals and phyllotaxis (plant leaf arrangements).

So, just as a shell's shape is built on recursive, ratio-based growth, the harmonic scale is built on recursive, ratio-based sound vibrations.

From human vocal cords to bird songs to shells, harmonics show up everywhere because they’re energetically efficient. Nature “chooses” these patterns through physics: harmonic frequencies require the least energy to maintain in wave systems.

So the conch doesn’t intentionally “mirror” music — it’s that music and the conch both mirror math and physics.

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☢️ 4/9 of the World’s Nuclear Powers Are Now at War

Source: Noahpinion

Seems not good.

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Do you have good taste? You probably suffer from this affliction.

Today I learned a new concept: “The Taste Gap”

Source: Ira Glass via Shaan Puri

I love this concept. I dunno if it’s actually new, but it’s new to me!

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🏀 NBA Myth Busters

Does Draymond Green actually try to get himself ejected when Steph Curry isn’t playing?

This guy Tom ran the number and, turns out, it’s true.

Draymond is almost 4x more likely to get ejected when Steph is out.

Source: Tom Haberstroh

Source: ESPN

I’d heard it anecdotally but didn’t know it was statistically true.

But also, I think Draymond could do better than 5.6% if he was actually trying.

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Map of the Holy Roman Empire at its Territorial Peak in the 12th Century

Source: u/vladgrinch

Which is your favorite city-state?

Mine is Münster.

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🎶 Banger of the Day

Harmonic 313 on the ones and twos

In honor of the conch shell and it’s mysterious harmonic structure, here’s a song by a someone who has the word “harmonic” in their name. He goes by the name Harmonic 313 but his real name is Mark Pritchard and he’s a proper english lad.

Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox

SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶

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