Guessing Names By What The Letters They Start With
Follow this link and go to a page at a site called flowingdata where data has been crunched on USA names born in different years in order to produce a search device that guesses your name based on what...
View ArticleAlcohol As An Agent Of Myopia (from Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell)
In Australia take-home sales of alcohol from liquor retailers are up 27% (though places at which alcohol is consumed are closed, so those sales, of course, are down). Part of Malcolm Gladwell’s book...
View ArticleLife Moves Pretty Fast – Blockbuster’s Rise And Fall
I really don’t like generational claims to exceptionalism, but if there’s an aspect of life that is unique to our age it is the scope and speed of change in society. Here’s a video about the locations...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites, and Comets
For anyone who has followed the comedic presidential campaign of The Sweet Meteor Of Death (based on the premise that an extinction level event would be the most preferable outcome for the USA after...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Humans Dream Of Mobile Phones?
I read something somewhere a week or two ago (I certainly didn’t dream it) that mentioned that mobile phones do not turn up in our dreams. I dream a fair bit, I’m using a mobile phone (a lot) and I...
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The Oldest Schools In Each Country Infographic
This infographic identifies each country’s oldest school or university still in operation. Some will surprise by how old they are, perhaps more surprising are how recent some of these institutions...
View ArticleThe Pacific Ocean Is Big (via RealLifeLore)
To take a quote from Douglas Adams and apply it to the subject at hand, the Pacific Ocean “is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a...
View ArticleWorld’s Longest Urban Escalators
Having used the escalators at Melbourne’s Parliament Station on occasion I was curious to look on this list and see where it ranked alongside others around the world. Not in the top 70 as it turns out...
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City Jobs – Wrong Fuel Rescue
There are jobs in big cities that I find bemuse my small town perspective. Years ago I was intrigued to hear radio ads for a business that did nothing else but mount plasma screen tvs on walls. Today...
View ArticleWhen Is A Mountain Really A Hill? (via Today I Found Out)
Looking out the front window at Mount Gambier in all its 190m (620ft) stature made reading this article on Today I Found out about the difference between hills and mountains all the more intriguing....
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