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- This gets me - every damn time. 

- Making Battleship Ice Cream. Very cool history.

- You're blowing smoke up my arse, right? More cool history although ice cream would definitely be my preference over tobacco enemas.

- Althouse on another Kennedy challenging another Democratic sitting President.

Merry Christmas

The Day We Met Calvin and Hobbes

On this day in 1985 the world was introduced to a boy and his tiger.

Sadly True

Truth

Merry Christmas

A Very Calvin and Hobbes Christmas

The Day We Met Calvin and Hobbes

On this day in 1985 the world was introduced to a boy and his tiger. 

Truth

Sadly True

Truth

 

Merry Christmas

 

Truth

A New Decade is Coming Up

File under Calvin & Hobbes being timeless or under "the more things change the more they remain the same."

A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas

Truth

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- 50-years ago today

- Science has first ever images of molecules changing their charge state.

- This is pretty cool

- The scandal in Washington no one is talking about. This always should have been a much bigger thing.

- Civilian drone warfare has arrived

- Amazon asks FCC to launch satellites for broadband service. Jeff Bezos quietly making a run at Elon Musk's Starlink satellite project.

- In the final minutes of his life, Calvin has one last talk with Hobbes. It may get misty for you when reading this (it did for me)

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- Interesting - CERN turns to open access software in response to Microsoft raising its fees

- 5 recommended science summer reading books from Jim Al-Khalili. I'm adding two of them to my Wish List

- Sometimes you do think too much

- Some details are emerging from the shooting of David Ortiz. Life seems to be very cheap in the Dominican Republic. I fully expect the suspects to die in prison before they have a chance to testify against whoever hired them.

- Well worth your time lecture by Russ Roberts on the Hidden Harmony of Everyday Life

- Jordan Peterson announces free speech social media platform Thinkspot. This will be interesting to monitor. You have to pay to be on it but it seems the revenue is shared with content creators.

- Heh Heh

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- I would so watch a Tormund and Ghost adventure series.

- Broccoli sprout compound may restore brain chemistry imbalance linked to schizophrenia. maybe time to get some sulforaphane extract?

- Heh Heh

- As a Celtics fan the dysfunction of the Lakers does bring me joy. I'm a flawed human - agreed.

- This is so cool

- Super soldier contact lenses - cool

- So the Trump tax cuts brought in about $14 billion in extra tax revenue. Cut taxes and raise tax receipts? Win-win!

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- Cool reminder of the contributions to science made by Gregor Mendel.

- Happy belated 60th birthday to Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. You've brought countless hours of joy to millions of readers.

- Interesting - Spiders can "fly" hundreds of miles using electricity.

- True

- What a great yet simple prank

- I for one welcome our smart weed-killing robot overlords

- Heh Heh (though I really didn't need that mental picture of why that warning was necessary)