If you’re within flying, driving, walking or crawling distance of the Hayden Planetarium, this is a must see. Terrific writing, amazing graphics, and narration by Whoopi Goldberg. Even the pre-show is great. Did you know, for instance, that a galactic year is 250 million earth years? And that one galactic year ago dinosaurs roamed the…
The nurse writes in.
The Open University on the history of English: The cartoon version. Love the one about the King James version of the Bible, too. And the age of the dictionary, if only to discover the word “snuffbumble.” Worthy of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The story behind the “1984” Mac ad. Click here to read the full story. It’s a fascinating one, especially if you remember rising slowly to your feet that day at halftime, jaw dropped, watching it.
Remember this? Recently, Wired Magazine ran a story about ham radio operators. Some excerpts: In a world of taken-for-granted torrents of e-mails, instant messages and Skype video-chats, there is a purity and a richness in the shared experience of exchanging “73s” during a live “QSO” with strangers on another continent. …the hobby has captivated royalty…
Must-see TV for storytellers. And in case you didn’t know, this is what Ira Glass does better than almost anyone else on the planet.
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“Fruit Cart!” An expletive used by knowledgeable film buffs during any chase scene involving a foreign or ethnic locale, reflecting their certainty that a fruit cart will be overturned during the chase, and an angry peddler will run into the middle of the street to shake his fist at the hero’s departing vehicle. (Of all…
One of the greatest little museums ever, worth the trip to Haines all by itself. Make sure they show you the Tlingit war hammer they found when they were digging out the foundation for the building, too.
High up in the bough of a tree a bird, smaller than all the rest, trills out three pure, clear notes on a descending scale. The woman raises her face into the last rays of the setting sun, and she smiles.—-The Singing of the Dead You know the bird that sings every time Emaa wants…
