Interesting Links for 22-12-2018
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andrewducker- World Cup: Almost half world's population watched Russia 2018
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- The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia (deaths dropped by 75% for a trivial cost)
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- The academics and the drone, a tale of hubris.
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- Analysing 122 Hours of Christmas Radio - from Martin Luther to Michael Bublé
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- 'Wonderful Christmastime' is the worst Christmas song–and quite possibly the worst song–ever
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- President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days
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- Terrible news for fans of thinking.
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- Origins: Puff the Magic Dragon
- (tags: music myths )
- Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater
- (tags: Mars water ice )
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Date: 2018-12-22 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-22 02:42 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p6nAaOmyU
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Date: 2018-12-22 03:48 pm (UTC)We have the album although it gets played all through the year not just around now! :o)
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Date: 2018-12-22 05:03 pm (UTC)Drone story: the line "So all these highly-educated people are staring at this ludicrously pricey tool they've no idea how to use" reminds me of my experiences at academic conferences watching highly educated professionals battle with their computers over who was going to be in charge of which slides the computer projected or what sound samples it played: them or the computer.
"Wonderful Christmastime": I'd never heard this song before. Now I have, you bastard. Still, I'd claim that both "Ebony and Ivory" and "The Girl Is Mine" are equally awful. The ubiquity of the latter two on the airwaves when they were new convinced me that McC had lost all his talent. Why didn't anyone play the wonderful "Wanderlust" which was on the same album as "Ebony"? I didn't hear that one until decades later.
Thinking: C.S. Lewis would point out that, if this guy thinks that thinking is illusory, his thought on the subject must itself be illusory.