Wed Feb 24 20:37:23 EST 2021

Probably not noticeable, but the Doppler shift should affect the tuning of radio stations as you move toward and away from the transmitter.

I've heard myself echo with a Doppler shift. If I'm walking toward the reflecting surface, my echo will be sharp.

Thursday 00:17

The tromba marina is nothing like the trombone. Comment ( Read more... )

Mon Mar 23 15:00 EDT 2020March 23, 2020 ( Read more... )

Tue 1/15/2019 8:15 PM ( Read more... )

Tue Mar 20 17:07:40 EDT 2018Maryland School Shooting Leaves 2 Students Critically Injured, Shooter Dead
We've had another school shooting, but the shooter (also a student) is the only one dead, so it doesn't seem to be a national-news story. The school resource officer was on the scene ( Read more... )

Wed Oct 25 12:50:30 EDT 2017

I don't know whether this was part of Schoolhouse Rock!, but I've had this earworm today. It took more searching than it should have to get to a page containing exactly the 2 quoted strings I had searched on earlier ["a wonderful kind of energy" "that's electricity"]. And I'm not sure whether the musical form is a ( Read more... )

Tue Oct 10 01:56:59 EDT 2017

I'm listening to a story on the radio about Trump wanting to cut support and education efforts to reduce teen pregnancy. Ignoring whether this is a good idea or good policy, I heard this statement:For Hispanic girls, one in three will get pregnant before they turn 20.
There is no question of the gender of people who get ( Read more... )

Wed Sep 6 23:36 EDT 2017 ( Read more... )

Oct 8 2015, 1:15 am ET
A Florida school board will pay $200,000 apiece to the families of three students who died after they were hypnotized by former North Port High School Principal George Kenney....
2 committed suicide, and the 3rd "died in a car crash ( Read more... )

Wed Sep 30 00:48:55 EDT 2015[Georgia death-row convict Kelly Renee Gissendaner] requested her final meal last week: cheese dip with chips, Texas fajita nachos and a diet frosted lemonade.
Why diet? I've heard all kinds of absurd reasons why calories don't count. I'm fairly sure they don't count after your digestive processes stop ( Read more... )

Wed Apr 8 03:10:19 EDT 2015New York Teen Harold Ekeh Gets Accepted to All Eight Ivy League SchoolsWith no expectations, New York teenager Harold Ekeh applied to 13 colleges, hoping to "maybe" get into Stony Brook University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long Island ( Read more... )