3quarksdaily is mostly a filter blog, but they do run some original material. For example, here is an intriguing piece about the nature of historical memory.
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Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist?
Posted by acilius on September 29, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/29/will-the-manhattan-project-always-exist/
She grew up without a View-Master
Thanks to haha for linking to this LA Times story in which a woman tells what it was like to spend the first 48 years of her life unable to see in three dimensions, and what it was like to gain that ability in middle age.
Posted by acilius on July 17, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/07/17/she-grew-up-without-a-view-master/
Jones’ BIG ASS Truck Rental and Storage
Posted by CMStewart on July 1, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/07/01/jones-big-ass-truck-rental-and-storage/
Why are there 60 minutes in an hour?
Thanks to 3quarksdaily for posting about this article that answers the question “How did the Sumerians count to 12 on one hand and to 60 on two?”
Posted by acilius on June 27, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/27/why-are-there-60-minutes-in-an-hour/
Excuse me, do you have change for $134,000,000,000?
Thanks to blog founder vthunderlad for pointing me to this story.
Posted by acilius on June 17, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/17/excuse-me-do-you-have-change-for-134000000000/
Handicapped parking
Slate‘s “Dear Prudence” answers a letter from someone in a category I’ve been thinking about for years: people who do need handicapped parking spaces, but who look like they do not need them.
http://www.slatev.com/index.html?bcpid=988092926&bctid=20980628001
Posted by acilius on April 27, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/27/handicapped-parking/
Feed the Homeless Without Really Trying
- replate.org
U.S. residents throw away about 100 billion pounds of food every year (nearly 3,000 pounds per second), enough to feed 60 million people. At the same time, more than 35 million U.S. residents are hungry or on the edge of hunger.
Posted by CMStewart on April 16, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/16/feed-the-homeless-without-really-trying/
Caltrans Eagle Cam
Posted by CMStewart on March 26, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/26/caltrans-eagle-cam/
Bush Truth Commission
Posted by CMStewart on March 24, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/24/bush-truth-commission/
Tabby’s Place
Posted by CMStewart on March 23, 2009
https://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/23/tabbys-place/
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