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Two days in a row I left out the dang video… by … Continue reading
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(I initially somehow managed to leave out the clip, which resulted in what was probably a funnier post than I’d intended…) by … Continue reading
Here’s another surprisingly interesting little micro-documentary from YouTube, this one about the U.S. one-cent coin, or penny: An aside: The coins of most countries clearly show their value in numbers. American coins give the value in English words: one cent, … Continue reading
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Or given that failures are called “fails” on the Internet, maybe successes should be called “succeeds.” Either way, here, for a change, is a compilation of things that actually went right. There’s even a successful cat in it. by … Continue reading
A nicely done, occasionally funny rundown of 8 commonplace misconceptions about animals: When viewing this I noticed one semi-mistake and was going to mention it here in keeping with my usual tendency toward obsessive pedantry, but then I happened to … Continue reading
As André Schiffrin pointed out in a short article in the December 17 issue The Nation magazine, the absorption of Penguin into the Bertelsmann publishing empire will create a single company that will publish about a fourth of all books … Continue reading
Back in 1997 I read a very thought-provoking article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine by physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discussed some novel ideas for thinking about space exploration. Among other things, he note that a place where life … Continue reading
An amusing debunking of some common false notions about history: by … Continue reading
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