Paper or Perish
A comment worth pulling out and highlighting: Indeed, perish it was. Although before that it was “paper” for over 100 years 🙂 . From the Allied Paper mill site.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Odd v. Even Numbers
If I had full academic library privileges, I’d be dropping everything I had planned this afternoon to read A Study of Odd- and Even-Number Cultures: Japanese prefer odd numbers, whereas Westerners emphasize even numbers, an observation that is clear from the distribution of number-related words in Japanese and English dictionaries. In this article, the author …
Househenge
Check out Mark Justice Hinton’s very cool Househenge.
End Times in New Mexico
The whole Planet X pole shift calamity turned out to be a bust. Sorry, life and civilization as we know it were not destroyed. But not to worry! 2012 is just around the corner. As prophesied by the Mayan calendrical thingamajigs, we’re all pretty much screwed in just six short years. Not to worry, though, …
“I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight?”
A great public radio interview with Kurt Vonnegut on the firebombing of Dresden and the place of humor in the darkest times.
Doppleganger
Another jfleck.
Media Contributes to Floods
Inquiry Says Free Papers Make Subway Floods Worse
Daybook
art: Apropos of nothing except that I happened to have just listened to it, a marvelous old NPR piece from a few years back on Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”. paper of the day: Multi-Century Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Colorado Streamflow for Water Resource Planning, by Connie Woodhouse and Jeffrey Lukas. The tree ring people have …
My New Favorite Blog
Marmaduke explained (hat tip Miguel)
C’Mon Get Happy!
I am nothing if not diverse. From this morning’s newspaper: On U.S. nuclear weapons policy: Thursday’s announcement is driven by the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review. The 2002 report concludes that nuclear weapons will be with us for the foreseeable future “to deter a wide range of threats, including (weapons of mass destruction) and large-scale conventional …