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20 Oct
The Imagineers who worked on the Haunted Mansion drew heavily on reference material, combining a surprising number of real Victorian ghostly and sepulchral traditions, flourishes and details, which is all part of what makes the Mansion such a rich, immersive experience.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Feds gouge states, subsidize corporations; Cadillac perfects the murdermobile; Solar's "miracle material"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/20/the…

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20 Oct
Back in 2017, University of Utah researchers caused a stir when they published findings on a material called "perovskite" that was called a "miracle" for its potential to increase the efficiency of photovoltaics from 3% to 20%.

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At the time, the consensus was that implementing this research would take at least a decade, while a means of stabilizing the material in direct sunlight was developed.

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I am not a car person. Until we moved back to LA in 2015, the only time I'd ever been a car owner was 12 months in 2006-7, when I moved to LA for a Fulbright chair at USC and bought a used Hyundai Elantra to get to the university in.

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The scariest zombies this Hallowe'en aren't trick-or-treating, they're the zombie corporations that are borrowing cheap money from the Fed, declaring special dividends and stock buybacks, shambling on despite their inevitable demise.

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