celias

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by celias 9y ago
This makes me sad. It was great to purchase books directly from O'reilly to learn more about technologies I was working with and to purchase the occasional half priced daily special that just looked interesting. PDF format was the be
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by celias 9y ago
Videos at http://callingbullshit.org/videos.html and at the course link on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2OtU5vlR0k&list=PLPnZfvKID1...
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Wallops rocket launch tonight could create 'artificial aurora'(washingtonpost.com)
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Mail that baby: A brief history of kids sent through the U.S. Postal Service(washingtonpost.com)
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by celias 9y ago
I remember reading about how abundant lobsters were on a historical plaque in Cape Breton. From travel Canada - "There was a time when these crustaceans were so plentiful and underappreciated that only the poorest children took lobste
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by celias 9y ago
podcast - http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-dollar-value-nature/ blog - http://www.radiolab.org/story/how-important-bee__kw/
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by celias 9y ago
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
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by celias 9y ago
Studio 360's latest episode is about Twin Peaks http://www.wnyc.org/shows/studio/
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by celias 9y ago
Not sure why, but I had a flashback to watching Eraserhead in college while watching this.
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by celias 10y ago
The last song on the Rendez-Vous album, Dernier Rendez-vous (Ron's Piece), has an interesting backstory - "The last track on the album was originally scheduled to include a saxophone part recorded by astronaut Ron McNair on the Sp
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by celias 10y ago
Here's the 6 part NPR series Unfit For Work from 2013 http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/ with an accompanying This American Life broadcast http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episo
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by celias 10y ago
The Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAeZBVAzVw&feature=youtu.be Audio quality is not great but there are links to slides from Gustafson and Kahan
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by celias 10y ago
Also, a podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/
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by celias 10y ago
The benefit of buy and hold depends bit on when you buy as shown in this graphic http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
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by celias 10y ago
http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w301497/teaching/images_teaching/l...
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by celias 10y ago
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/03/488611449/episo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_shove
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by celias 10y ago
All Hail the glow cloud http://nightvale.libsyn.com/2-glow-cloud
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by celias 10y ago
http://web.mit.edu/redelson/www/media/stupida.pdf
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by celias 10y ago
See also this Freakenomics podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/still-using-cash/
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https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by celias 10y ago
Somewhat related Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/30/453257199/the-t...
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by celias 10y ago
Sounds like the plot of the "Ties That Bind Us" episode of the BBC show Hustle from 2006
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This phenomenon was the answer to a Car Talk Puzzler - http://m.cartalk.com/content/paging-sherlock-holmes
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The Secret History Of Your Cable Bill (2013) http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/09/27/226891181/episo...
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by celias 10y ago
Gene Weingarten won a Pulitzer for that article and his Pearls Before Breakfast one - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04... https://www.washingtonpost.com/people
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by celias 10y ago
Interesting Planet Money episode about ticket scalping - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episo...
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by celias 10y ago
"everything is really quiet" reminds me of this radiolab piece that talks about anechoic chambers http://www.radiolab.org/story/91792-hallucinating-sound/ and this Smithsonian piece about the anechoic ch
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by celias 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
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by celias 11y ago
http://obs.astro.ucla.edu/intro.html

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