…what’s the belt of venus?
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Belt of Venus →
How to discuss politics →
Of course, one way to make sure you never sound like an idiot when discussing politics (or have to suffer someone else who does) is to just avoid discussing politics in polite company. That said, sometimes a spirited discussion on current events is fun and informative, and sometimes you have the opportunity to talk to someone with an opinion or background you’d like to benefit from. In this post, we’ll show you how to approach those political conversations from an informed, civil angle, without a conversation with someone you may disagree with devolving into a mouth-frothing mess like you’d see on Sunday Morning talk shows.
~ Alan Henry from, How to Avoid Sounding Like an Idiot When Discussing Politics
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Mathematics →
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. C.P. Snow talked about two cultures. I really think that those two cultures separate people who have and people who have not had this experience of understanding mathematics well enough to appreciate nature once. […] Physicists cannot make a conversion to any other language. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one form; we are not so unhumble as to demand that she change before we pay any attention.
~ Richard Feynman
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Unicorns →
What is the most effective discipline to learn for absolute beginners?
~ GµårÐïåñ from, What is the Most Effective Discipline to Learn for Absolute Beginners
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Kyoto →
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Control T for TENEX →
This magic works via detection of a STATUS control character, Control-T, by the kernel tty driver, which then prints the load line via tty_info() on FreeBSD or ttyinfo_locked() on Mac OS X. It also sends a SIGINFO to the process, so it can run its own routine. See STATUS in the termios(4) man page.
~ Brendan Gregg from, «http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/10/05/control-t-for-tenex/»
It is so freakin’ cool when I learn new Unix tricks. It’s like a maze of twisty passages, all alike; Except there’s… oh! A piece of candy! oh! A piece of candy! oh! A piece of candy.
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Compassion →
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~ Seneca
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Hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball →
detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball
~ Randall Munroe from, Lethal Neutrinos
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This does not end well.
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Transgression Tuesday →
…where you feel guilty for what you did on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Lowell Observatory Telescope →
The telescope, inside the observatory dome, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona.
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