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This is another one I suspect you’ve seen by now, but just in case… Link: https://youtu.be/tI3g_laToxE by … Continue reading
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Donald Trump has nominated retired Marine Corps general James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. Genral Mattis has not been out of the service the required seven years and hence cannot legally serve in that post, but I think … Continue reading
This video does a nice job of highlighting some weird aspects of human vision in just three minutes. Link: https://youtu.be/0NPH_udOOek This first oddness it mentions is the blind spot, a place on the retina devoid of imaging cells where the … Continue reading
From a late July episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, a six-minute segment of advice to Hillary Clinton about how to present herself. (Usual caution to those sensitive to naughty language: This is Bill Maher speaking on cable.) … Continue reading
For a long time people have talked about the problem of low-information voters, those who typically don’t care all that much about politics, rarely watch the news, and rely on general impressions. To varying degrees this has probably been true … Continue reading
Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, has some advice to journalists on dealing with the flood of false statements from Donald Trump. (I’m going with “false statements” rather than “lies” because at least some of the time … Continue reading
You’ve probably already seen this by now, but in case if you haven’t, it’s Saturday Night Live‘s take from the November 19 broadcast on Trump’s transition planning since the election. Link: https://youtu.be/JUWSLlz0Fdo Trump complained about the show on Twitter, as … Continue reading
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog appears on Stephen Colbert the day after the election to discuss the results. I particularly liked the line about Trump’s plan to destroy ISIS (about 4:20 into the clip). Link: https://youtu.be/rstLxJtQQ30 For more on Triumph … Continue reading
President Obama today awards the Medal of Freedom to Margaret Hamilton, not the late actress famous for playing the Wicked Witch of the West but a pioneering computer scientist who programmed computers for the Apollo missions to the Moon and … Continue reading
Alton Brown, Stephen Colbert, and Science! Or engineering anyway: Link: https://youtu.be/wkHJgJeo7xQ “Any sufficiently commonplace magic will be deemed technology.” — Nimblespheres’ Law by … Continue reading