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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I’m somewhat disappointed that the article doesn’t explain why the researchers arrived at these conclusions. Sure, they mention the architecture and some features of the statue but they don’t give any kind of evidence or even speculative theories as to how they know they used that much lighting and in such manner. Did they find oil remains from lamps? Wax from candles? Where? How much? In which spots? How do they know many light sources were used? How do they know additional light sources weren’t placed elsewhere in the temple? Etc. They don’t say. They just recreated a 3D rendering using some educated guesses and the journalists canonized it. There was probably solid research done, but you won’t find it in that article.



  • The law requires a bale of straw to be hung from a bridge as a warning to mariners whenever the height between the river and the bridge’s arches is reduced, as it is at Charing Cross at the moment.

    According to the Port of London Thames Byelaws, Clause 36.2, a bale of straw has to be placed under London bridges “when the headroom of an arch or span of a bridge is reduced from its usual limits”.

    At night, the bale of straw is harder to see, so some warning lights are also switched on.

    Quite why a bale of straw is needed has long since been lost to time, but regardless of its origins, whenever the river bylaws are updated, they kept the medieval bale of hay law intact.