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Poem of the Week: 3/6/11-3/12/11
Rant of the Week: 3/6/11-3/12/11
Essay of the Week: 3/6/11-3/12/11
Links for Today
Links for Today
Read this as an explanation. Then watch this starting at the 2:54 mark (everything else is boring).
Not bad for an old guy. And everyone swears that this was for real. No cheating to make him look better.
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Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron. Those interested in painting should watch the embedded clip.
China’s holdings of US debt jump 30 percent. Not really news. Just something that we would already know if Brad Setser was still blogging. Also falsifies all those stories about China unloading US debt.
Fernando Alonso has criticised his government’s decision to lower the national speed limit to 68mph, warning that it will be “difficult to stay awake” at that speed. A silly story, but we sympathize. Of course, we have trouble staying awake at any speed so what do we know?
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Safety: Wound Care May Matter More Than Antibiotics
Dark Energy: Was Einstein Right After All? A dumb article. But easy to read if you don’t know anything about “dark energy.” If you have not followed astronomy for any length of time, you might not get how big this gradual revolution is. But basically, astronomers are being forced to admit that they know next to nothing about the universe by some data points that they just can’t explain with theories that they were confident of 20 years ago.