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by splat 16y ago
And don't forget the double-Paraprosdokian! One example which springs to mind: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=726#co... (Remember to mouse over the red button.)
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by splat 16y ago
And here in the animal kingdom, when you exercise and lose thirty pounds, much of that weight is breathed out.
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by splat 16y ago
Suddenly the 1977 movie Telefon sounds a lot more plausible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qg0w8qbBQo
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by splat 16y ago
University Economics by Armen Alchian is quite a good introductory textbook to the basics of mainstream economics. It has a strong emphasis on understanding economic concepts intuitively which I like. If you're looking for a more mathematic
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Numbers Station(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan(foreignpolicy.com)
59 points by splat 16y ago|6 comments
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by splat 16y ago
Fascinating. I can't help but think of Ender's Game .
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by splat 16y ago
This seems like a lot of fuss over a negligible amount of money going to the government. Who knows how many man-hours of highly-skilled labor are going to be wasted trying to get around these new tax laws? And what does the government get
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by splat 16y ago
This is very true, and I think it's one of the reasons that Esperanto works so well as one's first second language. (I recall seeing one study where a group of students who learned Esperanto for one year and then French for three years end
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by splat 16y ago
Of course, under the laws of asset forfeiture, carrying around large quantities of cash is a de facto crime in itself, even if you are not engaging in any criminal activities with the money. (Radley Balko has written a number of good art
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by splat 16y ago
I remember hearing about a movement in Japan to eliminate cash a while back. (Here's one story from about a year ago: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/art... ) Has anything happened with this or was the proposal d
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Genaille-Lucas rulers(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
It's always seemed odd to me when the owners of the media from which some internet meme is based destroy the videos that made them popular in the first place, given that it would be completely unknown without the meme. The artist's biggest
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by splat 17y ago
I figured out a way to do it once, but this text box is too narrow to contain it.
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Clelia Mosher -- The Victorian Sex Scholar(stanfordalumni.org)
26 points by splat 17y ago|1 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Or is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time
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by splat 17y ago
http://www.investopedia.com/ is a wonderful website with lots of basic financial information that spans much more than just trading and investing.
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The Federal Prosecutor(blog.simplejustice.us)
2 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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The most common navigational mistakes we all make(slate.com)
18 points by splat 17y ago|5 comments
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by splat 17y ago
The article "Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics" by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwarf on the arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064
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A search for the Mpemba Effect [PDF](arxiv4.library.cornell.edu)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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Ideological rankings of occupational categories(abonica.wordpress.com)
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Unsolved Problems in Physics(oglethorpe.edu)
27 points by splat 17y ago|13 comments
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Bucket argument(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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by splat 17y ago
I'm fine with this as long as they promise to resume operations on December 23, 2012.
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by splat 17y ago
If I were to pull out a pair of binoculars and look at your speeding car, I would actually see its length contracted and you moving in slow motion inside. This is not quite true. If you were to actually observe a relativistic object with
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How to Teach Yourself Programming(abstrusegoose.com)
8 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Writing a lab report for my lab class. I'm using electron diffraction to measure the Planck constant.
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by splat 17y ago
"The annals of capitalism are full of ingenious money-making ruses. ... There may, however, now be a new capitalist champion of gall. According to AlterNet, some of the more enterprising and caring cities of the United States have used th
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Archeological dig reshaping human history(newsweek.com)
38 points by splat 17y ago|11 comments

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