Oh, no, I read it wrong. It’s “hope.” And not THAT Pandora. But it is my birthday!
Daily Archives: June 24, 2010
Religion. It gives comfort.
… or, this:
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Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster
Interesting piece:
…Certain topics never fail to generate a flood of impassioned reactions online: immigration, President Obama, federal taxes, “birthers,” and race. This story about Obama’s Kenyan aunt, who had been exposed as an illegal immigrant living in public housing in Boston and who was now seeking asylum, manages to pull strands from all five of those contentious subjects….
HT Virgil Samms
Florida chickens have come home to roost
Over that last day or so, tons of BP oil have been removed from Florida beaches. The news shows people who live along the beaches crying. Sorry, Floridians, I do not cry for you. I cry for the clams, but not the people. You put that oil there.
Given enough time, the most improbable things happen. Probably.
Is it possible for all the oxygen molecules in the room, which are moving around randomly, to randomly all move to one corner so everyone is breathing just nitrogen for a while and they die?
Is is possible for a World Cup soccer game to have a score of, say, 24 to one?
Is is possible for a tennis match to go on for several days because, after all, there is no limit on how many times they can bounce the ball back and forth across the net?
Yes.
Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.
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