He certainly understands the impulse control thing.
Lest you think it's not important, though, being overweight is high on the list of risk factors for spontaneous combustion.
From The Oatmeal.
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Friday, 20 June 2014
Weird Al Yankovic as Isaac Newton in this historical rap battle vs. Bill Nye.
Scientific invention du jour: Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic sperm extractor.
Video supercut of the classic Star Wars line "I am your father" in 20 languages, bonus Star Wars: The Musical.
It's hard to imagine why, but dating site uses facial recognition to find matches that look like your ex.
Scientific invention du jour: Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic sperm extractor.
If you’re a math geek who doesn’t like sharing, you’ve been cutting cake wrong your whole life.
ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include honest Disney posters, report cards of famous authors, and 18th- and 19th-century patent models.
Thursday, 19 June 2014
The famous line from Empire Strikes Back (which was not, of course, "Luke, I am your father", but:
Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him.
Darth Vader: No. I am your father.)
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
I'm a firm believer in the principle that old ways are always the best:
"An Italian, through the oft smelling of an hearb called Basil, had a Scorpion bred in his braine, which did not only a long time grieve him, but also at the last killed him... Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basil."
Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things (1595)
There's also this set of instructions for growing an all-purpose herb which, although it contains basil, doesn't carry any brain scorpion warnings:
"To make an hearb to growe which shall have many savours and tastes. And to doo this: firste take one seede of the Lettice, one seede of Endive, one of Smallage, one of the Bassill, one of the Leeke, & of the parslie, al these put togither in a hole in such sort, that one seede may touch an other: but this remember that you plant these together in the dung of an Horsse or an Oxe without any earthe at all with them. And then after of these seedes shall growe up one proper hearbe, which will have so many savours and tastes, as there were seedes sowne together."
A Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatise, Intituled: Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions (1586)
via Ask The Past.
Quiz: Match these gorgeous 18th- and 19th- century patent models to their purpose.
Add some weasel brain to your cheese to keep rats and mice away: Advice from 1649. Related, sort of: here's a list of risk factors from 1799 for spontaneous combustion, plus more recent science.
Brutally Honest Disney Movie Posters
Because it's that time of the year: Famous Writers’ Report Cards: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, E.E. Cummings and more.
Kentucky's $30 Million Castle.
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include People Painted To Look Like Animals, Technologies That Replace Super Powers, the History of the Sunflower, and the History Of Light. (including how much light, historically, you could get for a day's work:
Antiquity: 10 minutes (candle)
1800s: 5 hours (kerosene)
Today: 20,000 hours (electricity))
Add some weasel brain to your cheese to keep rats and mice away: Advice from 1649. Related, sort of: here's a list of risk factors from 1799 for spontaneous combustion, plus more recent science.
Brutally Honest Disney Movie Posters
Because it's that time of the year: Famous Writers’ Report Cards: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, E.E. Cummings and more.
Kentucky's $30 Million Castle.
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include People Painted To Look Like Animals, Technologies That Replace Super Powers, the History of the Sunflower, and the History Of Light. (including how much light, historically, you could get for a day's work:
Antiquity: 10 minutes (candle)
1800s: 5 hours (kerosene)
Today: 20,000 hours (electricity))
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