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Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:06:19 · 4.3 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:02:46 · 1.9 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
Cread by Richardhanstock · recorded January 21, 2007 · 0:04:05 · 2.8 MB
"Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay has been widely cited in discussions of political communication and rhetoric, particularly in relation to the use of language to shape public perception.
The essay focused on…
Startread by 0101Abc · recorded July 24, 2022 · 0:06:04 · 4.2 MB
The Topps Meat Company, LLC was a privately owned meat processing company based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company produced and distributed frozen ground beef patties and other meat products processed at its 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) plant in Elizabeth and posted about $8.8 million a year in sales, according to information reported by Dun & Bradstreet.
In 2007, the Topps Meat Company's products were linked to an…
GAread by JSIAmKidding| ] · recorded October 22, 2023 · 0:06:05 · 4.4 MB
Members of Metallica, the band expected to win the award, performing in 2008…
The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental was an award presented at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 to honor quality hard rock/metal works (albums or songs). The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic…
Startread by Helen.Hu808 · recorded December 27, 2016 · 0:03:48 · 3.5 MB
Villa Foscari: facing the Brenta
Villa Foscari is a villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The home was constructed by Palladio for two patrician brothers. It was built in the mid 1550s. It is also known as La Malcontenta ("The Discontented"), a nickname which—according to a legend—it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly…
Startread by S Whistler · recorded April 25, 2012 · 0:06:05 · 4.5 MB
Mk15
The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters of Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.
The bomb was jettisoned to help prevent a crash and explosion. After several…
Startread by iking5 · recorded September 11, 2019 · 0:02:33 · 1.8 MB
Chad is a slang term for a type of young man. In the 2000s, it was used in Chicago as a derogatory description for young, upper-class, urban males. In modern internet slang, the term generally refers to an "alpha" or simply a sexually successful male.
Startread by Jonjalin · recorded November 30, 2012 · 0:03:08 · 2.4 MB
Edward Clifford in 1896
Edward Clifford (1844 in Bristol – 1907) was an English artist and author.
Clifford was the younger brother of Mary, who later became a pioneering Poor Law Guardian, and the other brother of Alfred, who later served as Bishop of Lucknow.
Cread by JohnAnkerBow · recorded July 26, 2019 · 0:06:20 · 5.0 MB
Astronaut photography of Jashak salt dome in the Zagros Mountains in Bushehr…
A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when rock salt (or other evaporite minerals) pushes into overlying rocks in a process known as diapirism. Salt domes can have unique surface and subsurface structures, and they can be discovered using techniques such as seismic reflection. They are important in petroleum geology as they can function as petroleum traps.
Bread by Clay2004 · recorded July 28, 2026 · 0:19:07 · 13.4 MB
Derpy Hooves is commonly associated with muffins.
Derpy Hooves (officially called Muffins; also known as Bubbles and Ditzy Doo) is a fictional character who appears in the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony toyline and media franchise, beginning with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–2019). She is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain.
Derpy Hooves is depicted as a clumsy but well-meaning anthropomorphic pegasus with crossed eyes who works as Ponyville's…
Bread by cintoli · recorded August 15, 2006 · 0:14:53 · 10.5 MB
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: ; c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
Purcell's musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and…
Cread by FutureNJGov · recorded June 7, 2006 · 0:12:23 · 8.5 MB
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is an American animated web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is based on the setting of the video game franchise Halo. The series centers on two opposite teams fighting in an ostensible civil war—shown to actually be a live fire exercise for elite soldiers—in the middle of Blood Gulch, a desolate box canyon, in a parody of…
FAread by Vonfraginoff · recorded August 17, 2006 · 0:02:44 · 1.9 MB
Watchmen is a comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed…
Cread by FutureNJGov · recorded June 7, 2006 · 0:14:38 · 10.1 MB
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is an American animated web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is based on the setting of the military science fiction first-person shooter series and media franchise Halo. The series centers on two opposite teams fighting in an ostensible civil war—shown to actually be a live fire exercise for elite soldiers—in the middle of…
Startread by SpaceMarine8 · recorded May 27, 2024 · 0:03:01 · 2.3 MB
Lamellibrachia luymesi1
Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila. They live at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and methane) leak out of the seafloor, and are entirely reliant on internal, sulfide-oxidizing bacterial symbionts for their nutrition. The symbionts, gammaproteobacteria, require sulfide and inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide). The tube worms extract dissolved oxygen and…
FAread by Vonfraginoff · recorded August 17, 2006 · 0:12:20 · 8.5 MB
Watchmen is a comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed…
Cread by M4th5 · recorded January 2, 2011 · 0:03:52 · 2.9 MB
The fibreglass TARDIS prop used between 1980 and 1989.
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series first broadcast by the BBC in 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, follows the adventures of the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being from a humanoid species known as Time Lords. The Doctor travels through space and time using a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, which has an exterior that resembles a British…
Startread by Luigi30 · recorded April 15, 2005 · 0:04:59 · 3.4 MB
John of Ibelin (c. 1179 – 1236), called the Old Lord of Beirut, was a powerful crusader noble in the 13th century, one of the best known representatives of the influential Ibelin family. The son of Balian of Ibelin and the dowager queen Maria Comnena, he had close ties with the nobility of both Cyprus and Jerusalem, since he was the half-brother of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. Before he was 20, he was appointed…
FAread by Vonfraginoff · recorded August 17, 2006 · 0:16:00 · 11.0 MB
Watchmen is a comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed…
Cread by ZNQriGo0GUGMAibZXgBV · recorded April 2023 · 0:34:56 · 24.5 MB
Bell logo
Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun, Quebec, Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec; as such, it was a founding member of the Stentor Alliance. It is also a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) for enterprise customers in the western…
Startread by Mangst · recorded January 10, 2010 · 0:01:32 · 1.1 MB
Pandora PIA07632
Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 from photos taken by the Voyager 1 probe and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 26. In late 1985, it was officially named after Pandora from Greek mythology. It is also designated as Saturn XVII.
Pandora was thought to be an outer shepherd satellite of the F Ring. However, recent studies indicate that it does not play such a role, and that only…
Startread by Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick · recorded October 2013 · 0:03:22 · 2.6 MB
Jonathan Coulton cropped
Jonathan William Coulton (born December 1, 1970), often called "JoCo" by fans, is an American folk/comedy singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans. Among his most popular songs are "Code Monkey", "Re: Your Brains", "Still Alive", and "Want You Gone" (the last three being featured in games developed by Valve: Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, and Portal 2 respectively)…
Bread by Kevin F. Story · recorded September 2007 · 0:24:32 · 18.0 MB
Bust of Gaius Iulius Caesar in Naples
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, and author who was the dictator of the Roman Republic almost continuously from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. A member of the First Triumvirate, he led the Roman armies through the Gallic Wars and defeated his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil war. He consolidated power and proclaimed himself dictator for life…
