I Googled Lancetfish and found a less menacing-looking fish with a sail on its back. This came ashore near Jennette's Pier. Consensus is a lancetfish, a deepwater species. @NCAquarium_RI #NCNatureFriday pic.twitter.com/HIi50OTzbu — NorthCarolinaEE (@NorthCarolinaEE) May 16, 2014 So, there's a deep water variation that...
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Someone had better be delivering one of these 1947 ice masks to cure a hangover to my front door by the morning. Also, Monk.
It's true. Not all a James Lileks are unfunny and stupid. But this one is. Here he attempts to have fun with the "not all men" meme. The "not all.
Missouri's strenuous attempts to torture someone to death are a particularly grim illustration of the moral bankruptcy of the death penalty.
Some of you might be familiar with the first ever baseball strike, but this is the first I've ever heard of it, started when Ty Cobb went into the stands.
Noah Smith notes that Levitt and Dubner have, in addition to a bunch of abject nonsense that caused even David Cameron to see he had better uses for his time,.
Scott's post linking to Chris Taylor's thoughts on various bits of meta-commencement commentary alerted me to this Onion article actual op-ed by Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter. Scott and djw have already pointed out that commencement speeches are highly ritualized forms of institutional identity...
In 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early invaded Maryland. He threatened to burn the city of Frederick to the ground unless they paid him $200,000. Frederick city leaders agreed. They took.
The Boston public school system is eliminating history and social science departments, merging them with other departments that don't matter because they aren't on the standardized tests. No doubt this.
I know there is such a thing as Taco Tuesday, but how about we celebrate a late night Burrito Thursday by considering the 10 most important burritos in history.
(Was working on a longer post, but Scott's post below covers most of it, so I'll keep this short) What the Rutgers situation represents is this: The leaders of a.
At least in my window of social media, there remain a lot of people who seem to be very confused about the protests of commencement speeches. In the pundit class,.