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6 Oct 2024 www.syfy.com
"If there was one thing you wish people understood better about astronomy, what would it be?"
You may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to the solar system.
6 Oct 2024 www.rockpapercynic.com
Rock Paper Cynic: The Hunger Games as told by Lewis Carrol
6 Oct 2024 www.ursulakleguin.com
The author's comments in 2004 about the infamously bad SyFy Channel miniseries.
6 Oct 2024 www.wired.com
2004: A traffic engineer discovers that, in some circumstances, if you design the road right, you can actually make it safer by removing signs, lane lines, curbs and the like.
5 Oct 2024 www.smbc-comics.com
It inserts superfluous syllables directly into otherwise clear wording!
5 Oct 2024 www.openculture.com
"Safety Last, the 1923 film starring Harold Lloyd, features one of the most iconic scenes from the silent film era."
Still good advice a decade later.
1. Are humans involved? 2. Is the sample size big enough? 3. What type of study? 4. Be skeptical of “proof” or “cause” 5. Search for caveats