Thing Eleven: Peeps. Peeps are my favorite food. They’re not healthy, just empty calories: sugar and corn syrup. They are bright and sweet, but you can’t eat them right aways, (they are too soft, they have no heft, no substance) and you most definitely cannot eat them on Easter Sunday. Like everything wonderful to be had, peeps are so much ( Read more... )

Thing Six: Abracadabra. We all know abracadabra is a magic word…it opens up magical treasures, it changes doves into handkerchiefs (or the other way around), it makes sequined and leotarded ladies disappear, and it made Rowling rich (Harry survived the Avada Kedavra, or killing curse). There are a lot of theories as to how this word became so ( Read more... )

So I accidentally boned myself by saying that Watermelon was one of the Fifteen most magical things ever. Now the rest of the list has to be compiled...so, without further todo, and completely subject to my everchanging whims, I present.

THE FIFTEEN MOST MAGICAL THINGS EVER!
Items One to FiveThing One: The Tesseract. The tesseract is a four- ( Read more... )

Kuriositas has an article today on Tesseracts or hypercubes. As part of their "Tesseract 101" article they included a short clip from Carl Sagan's Cosmos which discusses our different dimensions in what must be the clearest explanation of 4-d that I've ever seen/heard.

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I have to admit the tesseract is a hard thing to bend one's three-dimensional ( Read more... )

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