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  "path": "/2026/04/24/why-does-cincinnatis-smale-park-have-kaleidoscopes-aimed-at-flowers.html",
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    "Why does Cincinnati's Smale Park have kaleidoscopes aimed at flowers?",
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  "textContent": "In Cincinnati, you can find some cool public kaleidoscopes at Smale Park. Here's a video of what it's like to use one of them. The kaleidoscope is locked in place, pointing at a lovely bed of flowers.\n\nWhile the kaleidoscope stays in place, the bed of flowers rotates in a circle as fast as you choose to spin it. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Why does Cincinnati's Smale Park have kaleidoscopes aimed at flowers? appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "Why does Cincinnati's Smale Park have kaleidoscopes aimed at flowers?"
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