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Some guy on the internet wrote: This intrigued me. He led with, "Not everyone agrees" implying healthy debate, which is normal for scientific progress...up to a point. Not everyone agrees that the Earth is a sphere, either, but we don't let that "debate" prevent us from using our GPS devices...

Helmets are pointless?

Florida woman fires gunshots at neighbor who asked her to turn down her music

Another Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell video. This one is on rogue planets drifting between the stars, and the likelihood they have life tucked away under the ice. https://youtu.be/M7CkdB5z9PY

Top 5 Myths About Christmas Not sure what I think about some of these. One of the points discusses the true authorship of the poem "The Night Before Christmas" published in 1822. Another point mentions that Santa Claus wasn't mentioned as coming down a chimney until 1837. And yet the 1822 poem...

https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A Presented by Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell, one of my favorite YT channels.

I thought I'd try a game I heard about that seemed fun. (For you young kids, Rewinding was something you had to do to movies before you took them back to the Rental Shop or else they would charge--never mind, just be aware of how easy you have it these days.) The object...

Interesting article. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it seems to be on to something.

Compare and contrast. God tells one man to kill his offspring, which he tries to do, and he's arrested for attempted murder. God tells another man to kill his offspring, which he tries to do, and the man is praised for his obedience.

Interesting twitter deck on traditional urbanism: Lots more at the link.

Concerned about Trump's political approval, as is typical, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, the president’s RNC-run fundraising group, issued a year-end poll on Friday, asking respondents to voice their opinion about the first year performances of Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Here...

A few days ago, I contacted my Congressman's office to express my opinion about the AHCA. He just e-mailed me his response:

Hey, I'm needing help identifying a piece of classical music, please. If you have access to Netflix in the US (not sure about other countries), there's a Watch Instantly series called "Plane Resurrection" featuring people restoring and flying old warbirds. During the 2nd episode of Season 1...

What is Bad Theology? More at the link.

Calling all web gurus. I need help... For a long time, I've owned the domain jamesabrown.com which I maintain at cheap-domainregistration.com For the first time, I've created a webpage to display, and it's hosted at freehosting.host. When I first signed up, they gave me a temporary web...

Instead of yet another thread explaining why Trump should not win, here's a case for voting for Hillary Clinton, written by Kevin Drum for Mother Jones: 79 others at the link. Whenever I go out in public here in Texas, I hear no end of reasons why I shouldn't vote for Clinton--most of which...

Nice article by George Lakoff Some good stuff about Direct vs. Systemic Causation:

Link We talked about this event here last year, until a certain someone derailed the thread with his victim-blaming homophobia and the thread was locked. Enjoy your stay-cation, Mr. Schlissel. Jehovah must be so very, very proud of you. You certainly won't have to encounter any homosexual...

So I'm reading Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid," his memoir of growing up in 1950's Des Moines, Iowa, and he mentions the Cuban Missile Crisis, and how close we came to World War III: So then...true? 170 missiles already in Cuba, and we nearly started nuclear...