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Motif Analytics, a startup specializing in sequence analytics for growth teams, today announced that it has raised a $5.7 million seed funding round led by Felicis and Amplify Partners. InvestInData angel group also participated. At its core Motif helps product teams find the patterns in how users interact with their tools. Simply seeing metrics on a dashboard, the team argues, doesn’t provide the right kind of information. Instead, you may want to see what happens between a user looking at a product page, clicking…

The Marshall Motif II ANC are premium TWS earphones that aim to offer ‘a huge sound in a tiny package.’ I have been using the Marshall Motif II ANC for a while now, and the earbuds have been my constant companion in almost every situation, including gym, home, office, and trips. The earbuds have been priced in India for under Rs 20,000, which is not an easy buy. Read on to find out if the TWS justify their worth in this Marshall Motif II ANC review.Design and fitFeaturing a conventional shape similar to the Apple AirPods…

Evidence of tattoos found adorning the mummified skins of two women from an ancient town on the bank of the Nile River suggests the lower back has been a trendy tattoo spot for more than 3,000 years.One of the female mummies described by researchers in a recent paper was excavated from the site of Deir el-Medina roughly a century ago, but only recently did experts notice black discoloration on parts of her skin.Just above her buttocks is a band of permanently drawn diamonds, similar to patterns seen on the ceilings of…

Image via Columbia Pictures Quentin Tarantino has many recurring motifs in his movies. There’s the fictional “Red Apple” cigarette brand, shots from inside the trunk of a car, and “Fruit Brute” cereal. Perhaps the most notorious is (you guessed it) the repeated close-ups of women’s feet. There are scenes in which feet take up almost the entire screen in Kill Bill, Death Proof, and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. In From Dusk ’til Dawn, Tarantino’s character, Richard Gecko, even drinks tequila off Salma Hayek’s…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Birds call forth a myriad of meanings in the Gilgameš Epic. Winged creatures convey abundance and revelry, enhance the narrative's soundscape, and foretell events in the story. In the article "Soundscapes, Portentous Calls, and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic" published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Adam E. Miglio employs an intertextual analysis to examine the epic poem's avian…