In journalism there is supposed to be a “Chinese wall” separating “church and state” — the news and business sides of a news outlet (though which is church and which is state probably depends on your point of view), but … Continue reading
No, I don’t mean The Conjuring (reviewed in the previous post); I mean yet another political ad featuring somebody complaining about the Affordable Care Act who actually turns out to have benefited from it. An article by Eli Stokols at … Continue reading
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive by … Continue reading
From various places on line. (Note that you don’t need to type the quotation marks shown below, and depending on what browser you use and how it’s configured, you can often type searches right into the address bar.) For useless … Continue reading
Last month Queen Elizabeth II toured the Game of Thrones production facility in Northern Ireland and among other things saw the notorious Iron Throne. She declined to sit, but she did give it a careful look, as you can see … Continue reading
Using camera phone telekinesis to affect another person. Possibly set up, but it looks like a real coincidence: Link: http://youtu.be/YmDXfqsG-Gw by … Continue reading
I like Oliver’s stuff because he’s informative as well as funny: Link: http://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno A couple more points on the estate tax: As Oliver points out, only a microscopic proportion of estates — a mere 14 out of every 10,000 — … Continue reading
According to this news report from some kids in Utah, it’s winter in Canada (it’s probably always winter in Canada), and unfortunately, a major snow tornado is apparently threatening the entire country, so if you’re anywhere in Canada, you should … Continue reading
If you have any interest in filmmaking, this web series is definitely worth watching. Not only is it informative about equipment and techniques (lighting, special effects, etc.), it’s also often damned funny. It’s written and produced by Ryan Connolly and … Continue reading
This is really worth a look. British comedian John Oliver interviews Britain’s most famous scientist, physicist Stephen Hawking: Link: http://youtu.be/T8y5EXFMD4s Imaginary time, by the way, is a theoretical additional time dimension that eliminates singular points in theoretical analysis of spacetime, … Continue reading