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
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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
Here are a selection of television and movie clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation assembled to seem very naughty and fairly funny, in a frat-boy way. Probably not safe for work. by … Continue reading
This is an actual an educational video, based on the song “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani, that teaches some interesting history about the Black Plague, the horrifically deadly pandemic that wiped out about a third of Europe’s population in the … Continue reading
In case you missed it, the BBC has lately been under attack both for covering up child sex abuse by a now-deceased and widely honored star of children’s programming and for a false charge of child abuse against a political … Continue reading