Category Archives: Interesting

Inside the Monkeysphere

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Kevin

Great article from David Wong – why 99.99999% of the world’s population are “one-dimensional characters” to us: Picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if you wish. We’ll call him Slappy. Imagine you have Slappy as a … Continue reading →

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Wow, now *that's* small…

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Kevin

Wow.

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Pew Survey Finds Most Knowledgeable Americans Watch 'Daily Show' and 'Colbert'– and Visit Newspaper Sites

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Kevin

I could have told you this… A new survey of 1,502 adults released Sunday by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that despite the mass appeal of the Internet and cable news since a previous poll … Continue reading →

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Scheerer's phenomenon

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Kevin

Wow! This is so cool…from Wikipedia: Blue field entoptic phenomenon The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer’s phenomenon is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into blue light … Continue reading →

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When did America become a nation of frightened wimps?

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Kevin

Good essay from Steve Olson: When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? When did we cross the line from courage to cowardice? Was it sometime in the 1990s? After the Oklahoma City bombing? After the Columbine shootings? After … Continue reading →

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A Hexagon on Saturn

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Kevin

Wow – bizarre! From spaceweather.com: “We’ve never seen anything like it on any other planet,” says atmospheric scientist Kevin Baines of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is a hexagon twice as wide as Earth encircling Saturn’s north pole. First observed … Continue reading →

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Snow Doughnuts

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Kevin

From npr.org: Maintenance crews in Washington state spotted a snow doughnut last week on the North Cascades Highway. At first glance, a snow doughnut may look like a man-made creation. But Mike Stanford, who snapped this photo, assures Robert Siegel … Continue reading →

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"Stuff Happens"

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Kevin

Excellent Economist article on why the war in Iraq failed: What went wrong? The most popular answer of the American neoconservatives who argued loudest for the war is that it was a good idea badly executed. Kenneth Adelman, he of … Continue reading →

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Google Phone!

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Kevin

From news.com: The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. “Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone,” Isabel Aguilera is quoted as saying on … Continue reading →

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Americans believe in religion — but know little about it

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Kevin

WaPo book review for Stephen Prothero’s “RELIGIOUS LITERACY – What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn’t”: The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural … Continue reading →

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