Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Tuesday links

Composer Dimitri Shostakovich was born September 25, 1906: some quotes, history, and music.




This Is Your Octopus On Drugs.
 
A short history of Sleepwalking

ICYMI, most recent links are here, and include the physics of swirling your wine, Firefly's Unification Day, the 17th century Russian beard tax, seamless underwater-to-air communication, and the Great British Hedgehog Census. 

Monday, September 24, 2018

The 2016 Election as a Football Play

If the election had been a football play rather than a presidential election, and Hillary Clinton had been handed her position in it by Make-A-Wish rather than the Democrat establishment, the 2016 election would have looked something like this: