Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Time And Time Again

Two Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past, A Brief History Of Homestar Runner, Everything You Learned In History Class Is Wrong, The Rise Of AdBlock Reveals A Serious Problem In The Advertising Ecosystem, Visualizing The Spread Of Preventable Disease, Why Do Brits Say 'Maths' and Americans Say 'Math?'
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
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TIME AND TIME AGAIN
Two Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past
scientificamerican.com
New theories suggest the big bang was not the beginning, and that we may live in the past of a parallel universe.
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A Brief History Of Homestar Runner
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When the Internet was alive with the spirit of childlike wonder, one name ruled supreme. No, it wasn't "Bonus Stage."
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Everything You Learned In History Class Is Wrong
oysterbooks.com
Well, maybe not everything. But this one book can undo years of bad schooling. Get it and half a million other great books on Oyster.
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The Rise Of AdBlock Reveals A Serious Problem In The Advertising Ecosystem
mondaynote.com
On grounds that it represents a major economic threat to their business, two groups of French publishers are considering a lawsuit against AdBlockPlus creator Eyeo GmbH. But the legal action misses a critical point.
THINGS THAT GO MUMP IN THE NIGHT
Visualizing The Spread Of Preventable Disease
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The folks over at GOOD made what is measily one of our favorite data visualizations, even though it shows how massively anti-vaxers are wrecking the U.S.
LEAVE OFF THE 'S' FOR SAVINGS
Why Do Brits Say 'Maths' and Americans Say 'Math?'
slate.com
In "The Imitation Game," characters take advanced maths classes that require them to scribble complicated maths in a notebook, and then they set their sights on the devilish maths of the Nazi Enigma machine. To American audiences, all those maths might seem doubly mysterious in their propensity to add and multiply. We Yanks prefer to pledge allegiance to the Math, indivisible, under God.
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EXPLODING OF THE BULLS
Image: A man runs with a
A man runs with a "toro encuetado," a structure resembling a bull and covered with exploding fireworks, as part of the celebrations in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception on her feast day in Managua, Nicaragua, early Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception is Nicaragua's patron saint. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix
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