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FluxLists is a collection of lists, spanning a wide variety of fields and interests, served up one-at-a-time for your enjoyment and edification.
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New FluxList: "Nine Times On Base, Single Game" — fluxlists.com#341
Max Carey, July 7, 1922 — six hits, three walks (18 innings) Johnny Burnett, July 10, 1932 — nine hits (18 innings) Stan Hack, August 9, 1942 — five hits, four walks (18 innings) Shohei Ohtani, October 27, 2025 (World Series, Game 3) — four hits, four intentional walks, and one walk (18 innings)
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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New FluxList: "Failed To Replicate Psychology Experiments" — fluxlists.com#340
Ego Depletion Power Posing Social Priming: Elderly Words Money Priming ESP Precognition Cleanliness and Morality Glucose and Ego Depletion Hunger and Risk-Taking Psychological Distance & Construal Level (serious credibility problems) Ovulation & Mate Preferences Marshmallow Test & Long-Term Success Stereotype Threat Smile to Feel Better Objective Measurement of Biases (mixed evidence with small effects) Mozart Effect Growth Mindset Interventions (mixed results; many failed replications) Bilinguals Are Smarter Difficulty Makes You More Rational
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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New FluxList: "Ten Tenets of Chindōgu" — fluxlists.com#339
cannot be for real use must exist must have a spirit of anarchy is a tool for everyday life is not a tradeable commodity must not have been created for purposes of humour alone: humour is merely the by-product is not propaganda is not taboo cannot be patented is without prejudice
October 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New FluxList: "Hokey Pokeys" — fluxlists.com#338
hokey pokey (United States) hokey cokey or hokey kokey (or cokey cokey or okey cokey) (United Kingdom) hokey pokey or hokey cokey (Australia) hokey tokey or hokey cokey (New Zealand) hockey-pockey (Mexico) rucki-zucki (Germany) boogie woogie (Denmark)
September 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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New FluxList: "Banned Futures Contracts" — fluxlists.com#337
onions motion picture box office receipts events contrary to the public interest; illegal activity, terrorism, assassination, war, “gaming” (pre-2024?)
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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New FluxList: "Played for the Most Teams" — fluxlists.com#336
Rich Hill, MLB — 14 Teams Edwin Jackson, MLB — 14 Teams Josh Johnson, NFL — 14 Teams Ish Smith, NBA — 13 Teams Mike Sillinger, NHL — 12 Teams Nathan Sturgis, MLS — 8 Teams Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA — 4 Teams Sebastián Abreu, International Soccer (El Loco; The Madman) — 32 Clubs (11 Countries; 26 Years)
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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New FluxList: "Flew To The Moon, Twice" — fluxlists.com#335
Jim Lovell (Apollo 8, Apollo 13; never landed) John Young (Apollo 10, Apollo 16) Eugene Cernan (Apollo 10, Apollo 17)
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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New FluxList: "Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office" — fluxlists.com#334
Rufus of England ("Treasury Bill") (1924 - 1930; 1 Prime Minister) Peter (1929 - 1946; 5 PMs) Munich Mouser (1937 - 1943; 2 PMs) Nelson (1940s; 1 PM) Peter II (1946 - 1947; 1 PM) Peter III (1947 - 1964; 5 PMs) Peta (1964 - 1976; 3 PMs) Wilberforce (1973 - 1987; 4 PMs) Humphrey (1989 - 1997; 3 PMs) Sybil (2007 - 2009; 1 PM) Freya (2012 - 2014; 1 PM) Larry (2011 - current; 6 PMs)
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New FluxList: "Baseball Pitches" — fluxlists.com#333
Four-seam fastball (rising fastball, four-seamer, cross-seam) Two-seam fastball (running fastball) Cutter Sinker Split-finger fastball (splitter) 12–6 Curveball (yellow hammer, drop curveball) Curveball (11 to 5 curve, 2 to 8 curve, the bender, the hook, the yakker, Uncle Charlie) Knuckle curve Screwball (scroogie, airbender) Slider (sweeper, “Mr. Snappy”) Slurve (portmanteau of slider and curve) Changeup (change-of-pace) Circle changeup (okay changeup) Straight changeup Vulcan changeup (vulcan, trekkie) Forkball (dry spitter, “ghostfork”) Fosh (“a cross between a fastball and a dead fish”) Palmball (slip pitch) Gyroball Eephus pitch (balloon ball, blooper ball, gondola, parachute, rainbow pitch, gravity curve, The Monty Brewster, Bugs Bunny curve) Knuckleball (knuckler, flutterball, floater, dancer, butterfly ball, ghostball, the bug) Shuuto (shootball) Spitball (shine ball) (illegal)
July 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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New FluxList: "Irish Goodbyes" — fluxlists.com#332
Irish goodbye — United States, Canada, England French leave/exit — England to take French leave — Ireland to leave in the French style (“sair à francesa”) — Portugal say goodbye like the French (“despedirse a la francesa”) — Spain to leave English style (“filer à l'anglaise”) — France to leave the English way (“wyjść po angielsku”) — Poland to leave English style (“a o șterge englezește”) — Romania to leave the English way (“angolosan távozni”) — Hungary to leave in the English way (“уйти по-английски”) — Russia Polish exit (“polnischer Abgang”) — Germany, Austria to make oneself Swedish (“gjøre svenske av seg”) — Norway to do the German (?) — Sweden
July 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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New FluxList: "Giant Donuts of Greater Los Angeles" — fluxlists.com#331
Randy’s Donuts — Inglewood Donut King II — Gardena ("No word on what happened to Donut King I") Kindle’s Do-Nuts — Los Angeles Dale’s Donuts — Compton The Donut Hole — La Puente (drive through) Angel Food Donuts — Long Beach (four locations)
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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New FluxList: "Longest Paper Airplane Flights" — fluxlists.com#330
29.2 seconds — Takuo Toda (2010) 27.9 seconds — Takuo Toda (1998) 27.6 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1998) 20.9 seconds — Chris Edge, Andy Currey (1996) 18.8 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1994) 17.2 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1987) 16.9 seconds — Ken Blackburn (1983)
June 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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New FluxList: "Kardashev Scale" — fluxlists.com#329
Type I — a civilization able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption Type II — a civilization that directly consume a star's energy, most likely through the use of a Dyson sphere Type III — a civilization able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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New FluxList: "Colors Of Noise" — fluxlists.com#328
white pink brownian (red) blue (azure) violet (purple) grey velvet green black noisy white
May 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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New FluxList: "The Tokyo Toilets" — fluxlists.com#327
Yoyogi 5-68-1 (Shigeru Ban, architect) — “blue and green walls to complement the surrounding trees” Tomigaya 1-54-1 (Shigeru Ban) — Transparent walls that become opaque when in use Ebisu nishi 1-19-1 (Masamichi Katayama) — “A maze of 15 board-marked concrete walls” Higashi 3-27-1 (Nao Tamura) — inspired by Origata Ebisu 1-2-16 (Fumihiko Maki) — “Squid Toilet”, with a courtyard in its center Nishihara 1-29-1 (Takenosuke Sakakura) — glows in a dark like a lantern Jingūmae 6-22-8 (Tadao Ando) — circular building made using “vertical metal louvres” Jingūme 1-3-14 (Nigo) — “a small house with a red-pitched roof, blue-framed windows and three chimney-style elements”, inspired by Washington Heights Shōtō 2-10-7 (Kengo Kuma) — “A Walk in the Woods”, made using cedar wood Ebisu minami 1-5-8 (Kashiwa Satō) — a box made from “white aluminum louvres” Yoyogi 5-1-2 (Toyo Ito) — mushrooms from a nearby forest Hatagaya 2-53-5 (Kazoo Satō) — uses voice control to open the door, flush, and play ambient sounds Hiro'o 4-2-27 (Tomohito Ushiro) — light panel “displays 7.9 billion different light patterns referencing the world's population at the point the project was conceived” Sendagaya 4-28-1 (Marc Newson) — inspired by “historic Japanese temples and tea rooms” Hatagaya 3-37-8 (Miles Pennington) — “a toilet that can be used as an exhibition space, cinema, pop-up kiosk, information centre or public meeting place” Sasazuka 1-29 (Junko Kobayashi) — “weathering steel cylinders” Yoyogi 3-27-1 (Sou Fujimoto) — looks like “an oversized sink”
April 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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New FluxList: "Bridges of Sighs" — fluxlists.com#326
Venice — named for the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment Chester, England — crosses Chester Canal; allowed condemned prisoners to receive last rites before their execution without risk of escape Cambridge, England — crosses River Cam at St John's College Oxford, England — skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane Glasgow, Scotland — uncovered bridge from cathedral to the Glasgow Necropolis Frankfurt am Main, Germany — at the Römer building; citizens crossed when paying taxes (Seufzerbrücke) Szeged, Hungary — connects the City Hall and House of Labor buildings (Sóhajok hídja) Santa Barbara, California — small arch connecting Santa Barbara County Courthouse to the courthouse jail Reno, Nevada — the Virginia Street Bridge; where newly divorced women would toss their wedding rings into the Truckee River Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — connects the Allegheny County Courthouse and the old county jail New York City, New York — connected The Tombs with the Criminal Courts Building Arizona — natural Redwall Limestone arch in the Grand Canyon Las Vegas, Nevada — in The Venetian Hotel
April 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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New FluxList: "Andre Walker Hair Typing System" — fluxlists.com#325
1a — Straight (fine) 1b — Straight (medium) 1c — Straight (coarse) 2a — Wavy (loose waves) 2b — Wavy (defined waves) 2c — Wavy (wide waves) 3a — Curly (loose curls) 3b — Curly (tight curls) 3c — Curly (corkscrews) 4a — Kinky-coily (defined coil) 4b — Kinky-coily (z coil) 4c — Kinky-coily (tight coil)
March 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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New FluxList: "Non-Primate Menstruation" — fluxlists.com#324
NON-PRIMATE MENSTRUATION Spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) Elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi) Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) Leschenault's rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaultii) Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) Black mastiff bat (Molossus ater) Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis pilosus)
March 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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New FluxList: "Foreign Exchange Currency Pair Slang" — fluxlists.com#323
FOREIGN EXCHANGE CURRENCY PAIR SLANG GBP/USD — Cable EUR/USD — Fiber EUR/GBP — Chunnel USD/CAD — Loonie USD/JPY — Gopher/Ninja GBP/JPY — Guppy EUR/JPY — Euppy/Yuppy EUR/RUB — Betty USD/RUB — Barnie AUD/USD — Aussie/Matie NZD/USD — Kiwi/The Bird EUR/CHF — Swissie
February 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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New FluxList: "U.S. Scent Trademarks" — fluxlists.com#322
Power Plus Lubricants — cherry, strawberry, and grape; for vehicle lubricants [2463044] Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical — minty; for pain-relief patches [3589348] Grendene — bubble gum; for shoes and sandals [4754435] Le Vian Corp — chocolate; for jewelry stores [4966487] Hasbro — sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough; for “Play-Doh” [5467089] Harvest Dental Products — almond and vanilla; both used for dental modeling wax [5735892] Sol Imports (formerly Sandal Island) — tropical coconut; for sandals [5881616] Bushnell — banana and evergreen, with a hint of ammonium and kerosene; for gun-cleaning preparations [6016544] Andrew Vaughn — fresh, sweet oranges; for shoe polish [6338566] Storm Products — mint; for bowling balls [6497227] Natural Fiber Welding — warm woodsy scent with clove spice undertones; for imitation leather and plant-based fabrics [6854397] Deep Blue Indoor Play — floral scent that invokes a sense of being at an ocean/beach; for children's entertainment and amusement centers [7369089] Crayola — reminiscent of a slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones; for crayons [7431203] Kalin Manchev — rose oil; for advertising and marketing [77871535]
February 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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New FluxList: "Notable TV Crossovers" — fluxlists.com#321
St. Elsewhere + Cheers The X-Files + Cops The Simpsons + The X-Files Bones + Family Guy Archer + Bob’s Burgers Arrested Development + Law & Order: SVU Alice + The Dukes of Hazzard Cougar Town + Community I Love Lucy + The Adventures of Superman Mr. Robot + Alf Star Trek: Strange New Worlds + Star Trek: Lower Decks Ally McBeal + The Practice
January 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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First FluxList: "Fifth Course, First Class Menu, Last Meal On The Titanic" — fluxlists.com#1
Fifth Course, First Class Menu, Last Meal On The Titanic
November 25, 2024 at 8:53 PM