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An amusing debunking of some common false notions about history: by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2012
A brief set of clips from interviews with physicists answering the question what confuses them about physics. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that it’s lots of things. The universe is a (delightfully) mysterious place. by … Continue reading
Entertaining and informative, from Britain’s Open University: by … Continue reading
You might suppose that a short video on the original pronunciation of Shakespeare might tend toward the dull and scholarly, but in fact the original pronunciation reveals a lot of very naughty puns. Elizabethan teenagers must have loved this stuff. … Continue reading
Hilarious Irish comic Dara O’Briain gives takes on religious matters. Usual modern comedy alert to those sensitive about naughty language. On the other hand, the criticism of religion is mild enough some are apt to be disappointed. On biblical literalism: … Continue reading
Here’s some more evidence the Republican Party has drifted far to the right from its traditional conservative positions in the 1950s. All these positions are found in the Republican Party platform of 1956: We are proud of and shall continue … Continue reading
From the team behind the overdosed wizards in an earlier post: (Note that those are all the same dog.) by … Continue reading
For Labor Day in 1956 the Young Republicans produced this poster celebrating American workers: This seems so remote from the ideas espoused by many of today’s radicalized Tea Party Republicans that you might think it’s a joke, but in fact … Continue reading
I particularly liked the woman near the end (at 2:17) who disciplines the ill-behaved creature with a well-justified whack on the snout. by … Continue reading
Amusing as usual, and probably not safe for work, also as usual: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook One thing that gets sailed right over: Obama’s proposal would cut … Continue reading