In an article for The American Conservative, Bruce Bartlett, a lifelong conservative with impressive credentials (GOP congressional staffer, Heritage Foundation, Cato, positions in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, conservative writer and newspaper columnist), recounts how he … Continue reading
This appears to be the creation of a team of people who do crazy (and often stupidly dangerous) stunts with the goal of selling them on DVD and Blu-ray. Click through to YouTube for a link to their website if … Continue reading
This is a quite interesting half-hour panel discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas in Britain on Steven Pinker’s 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature (which I reviewed in this earlier post). Participants include Pinker himself, … Continue reading
Offered without comment (unless this counts as a comment): by … Continue reading
Apologies for the déjà vu, but I made a big enough error in a previous post that I think it merits a second try. The following graphic, created by Steve Haroz, shows relative spending on scientific research and the military … Continue reading
The Indian actor-director-producer Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri (1923-1996) was the superstar of Telugu-language films in the 1950s through 1970s. (Telugu is a major language of India, spoken mainly in south central India, in and around the state of Andhra Pradesh.) … Continue reading
If it’s not too soon to revisit the 2012 campaign, here’s Bad Lip Reading’s take on the final set of debates. It’s not their best work, but still amusing: by … Continue reading
The power of whole grain compels you! by … Continue reading
This is an interesting musical composition based on assigning digits to notes in the A-minor scale and adding a complex left-hand accompaniment. There’s also some pi trivia on the visual side. As a bonus, here’s an entertaining (for math enthusiasts … Continue reading
A genus of ferns with 19 known species has been given the name Gaga by botanists at Duke University (where I used to work, for what that’s worth, and they never named anything after me), according to a Duke news … Continue reading