So, I've discovered the wonderful world of Podcasting. I know, you're shocked.

One of the ones I subscribed to is called Brain Food, and it's basically everything I love. It's an IV injection of factoids. The first episode was basically a podcast version of Ask Lori a Science Question in which the podcaster, whose name I can't recall but who ( Read more... )

Okay, this is really interesting. (Yes, I'm still on the whole faking-the-moon-landings thing. Shut up.)

Some of the evidence for OMGFAKE is laughably easy to debunk. Why aren't there any stars visible in the photos? It was DAYTIME, doofus. The sun, she is bright. The flag's waving in the breeze that shouldn't be there! It's moving because ( Read more... )

I'd like to report a great personal achievement ( Read more... )

I have learned tonight that if one leaves one's lava lamp on overnight, the wax will become hot enough that it'll get bubbles in it, and the floating blobs will start to resemble little alien heads with little alien faces ( Read more... )

Another busy night. Painted the entryway. Hung some more pictures. One grouping without panels, one with...but skinny panels (more like stripes) so the pictures look they're hanging on ribbons. It's kewl. Cleaned and straightened the den ( Read more... )

I just learned something amazing!

Did you know that Irving Berlin could not read or write music? It's true! That's amazing!He taught himself to play the piano, but to make it easier he only used the black keys, meaning that every song he wrote was in the key of F-sharp. Later in life he acquired a transposing piano, an amazing device I'd never ( Read more... )

Of all the charts and tables and organizational tools for keeping information straight that mankind has invented, I have always thought that none was more impressive or more inspired than the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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For today's random topic, I'm going to go off about the Shroud of Turin for a bit. Kay?
Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in unexplained spooky things. I was forever checking out library books about unsolved murders, the Loch Ness monster, ghosts, whatever. I don't so much care about Nessie anymore, but one item that has continued to ( Read more... )

Answers to yesterday's Trivia Quiz! Underneath the cut in case anyone wants to still go and take it.
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Over the past few months I seem to have started developing a fascination with the history and present of the British monarchy. I have NO idea why. It's such a convoluted subject, full of betrayals and scandals and unexpected accessions...who could resist ( Read more... )