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Salt Bride
Sometimes you go looking for 19th century fashion and find amazing art instead. This is a dress submerged in the Dead Sea to become a salt sculpture. Read more (and see more) here: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/sigalit-landau-salt-bride
Where can I find free Feynman physics lectures?
Occasionally, I buy some recording that most of you can enjoy. Not everyone has listened to them yet, but the CDs of the Feynman lectures were well worth whatever I paid for them. Lots of people teach physics, but he was an especially gifted lecturer. […]
Space Colony Plans
It might surprise kids today that kids of yesterday were pretty confident that they might have a chance to live in space. Here’s a fascinating piece on one dreamer’s tremendous ideas that are still sparking other dreams today: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/home-on-lagrange/
Do kids today know about the Titanic?
Nope. They have no idea, so don’t spoil the movie for them. Not only did whatever happened on the Titanic happen over a hundred years ago now, the last big movie about it–you know, that one—was being finished up twenty years ago. Damn, you’re old. […]
The Oldest Computer is Pretty Ancient
This Washington Post article is a good launching spot to read about this 2100-year-old machine that was recovered more than 100 years ago from a shipwreck in Greece. “The ancient Greeks came dazzlingly close to inventing clockwork centuries sooner than really happened. That they chose to utilize […]
Spring is in the air, and so is Barry White
My cell phone rang while I was driving home last night and I let it go to voicemail. I listened to the message and then I listened again. After that, I deleted the message and instantly regretted it. Since I can’t share the message that […]
Why do you say “copacetic”?
pronounced: \ˌkō-pə-ˈse-tik\ Apparently, I say this because I am old, likewise yerdad, who is also old, will say this from time to time. We had no idea it is such a new word that is primarily used by old people. As you gathered from the context, […]
Monday music for those who have nothing
There may never be anything more seventies than this clip–1970s, I mean. Sure, everybody knows Elvis, but did you know that the Welsh Elvis (Welvis?) is still performing and presumably is still having women throw their underwear at him? Well, here he is going all Welsh on Welch:
What’s the deal with the Money Pit?
People have been digging up there in Oak Island for centuries now looking for a treasure or treasures. There is no actual evidence of a pirate treasure, Revolutionary War treasure, or a Knights-Templar-on-a-lark treasure. There is also zero evidence that it’s a hoax perpetrated by interstellar […]
