Sunday, November 24, 2019

There's knowing something and there's believing in something.

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Fascinating. When engineering, science, and experience intersect with reality. Double click to enlarge.

Grow the economy - drink a beer with a colleague.

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From Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention by Michael Andrews. From the Abstract. To understand the ...

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson

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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides - You may have met him? Did you not Hi...

Off Beat Humor

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Flowers on the Windowsill, 1894 by Carl Larsson

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Flowers on the Windowsill, 1894 by Carl Larsson Click to enlarge.
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Best of the Bee

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American Heart Association Sued For Discrimination Against Trans Fats https://t.co/HIx4oipbJC — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 12,...

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

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Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ ...

Alexander Vindman received a Purple Heart after being wounded by an IED, or improvised explosive device, not an IUD

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Media corrections you think must really be fake but really want to have been true. A+ correction pic.twitter.com/LveoknpEkG — Jake Maccoby...

The principal reason for secession in 1861 was because they had lost control of the United States government for the first time ever

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You can find the most interesting things in the strangest places. From An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1...

Criticism, for a book, is a truthful, unfaked badge of attention, signaling that it is not boring

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From Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. We all learn early on in life that books and ideas are antifrag...