The Arts: (Sort of) Listverse describes 10 bizarre musical instruments, and the people who play them (and usually invented them).
Computing: Gizmo's Freeware evaluates PDF file readers/annotators.
Wired reports that the Associated Press now (finally!) agrees that it's OK to not capitalize "internet," and "web."
Gizmo's also picks a new candidate for best free anti-virus program.
Education: FiveThirtyEight tells us why media presentations of various aspects of college, including competition for admission, are unrealistic.
Politics: The New York Times reports that people in the USA like members of the other political party considerably less than they used to.
Science: Wired reports that the connections to about 50 neurons in a mouse brain have been mapped. This sounds easy, but it wasn't -- it took several people a few years.
Wired also reports on the scientific basis for itching and scratching.
Wired also tells us how to make a bottle rocket.
An under-30 female Ukrainian mathematician has solved a problem that has been worked on for a long time.
(Sort of science) Listverse reports on how 10 different chemical elements have been used to kill people. (They didn't include lead.)
FiveThirtyEight tells us why the sun hurts our eyes.
Note: This post originally linked to a Christianity Today article on the religion of one of the major candidates for President of the US. A few days later, the same periodical published an article rebutting the first one, so I removed the link to the first article.
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2 comments:
I read the article about Ted Cruz. I think this country does need a revival, but not a political "theocracy". I put that in quotation marks; I do believe that we should follow God's laws, but humans tend to get too legalistic in trying to force the "thou shalt nots" on everyone and forgetting the love, forgetting being just and fair to everyone, and helping the poor, the widowed, the orphaned, and the alien.
I agree. Thank you.
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