It has been awhile since I posted about a web comic but North World by Lars Brown has made my must be read regularly list recently and I thought I would point it out. North World has a very simple premise but one I haven’t seen done in web comics before, our modern world is [...]
This isn’t really science, but it is kind of neat. Virgil Griffith scraped Facebook data for which books people picked as favorites and what college they attended and created a graph of which books are most likely to be associated with higher or lower SAT scores. He calls it Books That Make You Dumb. I [...]
So I got sent this by some of the Europeans at work. This is of course exactly what they think all Americans are like. I don’t mind, it make me look good.
Their day out was to end in unforgettable horror when a crocodile killed Brett, then returned to circle relentlessly beneath a tree in which the other two had taken refuge. This story is not new, but when Brett gets eaten by a croc, I pay attention. Also in croc news you have the heartwarming story [...]
An unusual auction is coming up of World War Two memorabilia that includes a prosthetic leg worn by Douglas Bader, one of the true heroes of the Second World War. Bader lost both legs in a plane crash before the war commenting ‘Crashed slow-rolling near ground. Bad show.‘ in his log but he kept fighting [...]
January 22nd: Today in 1879 the Imperial British Army suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of the army of Zulu King Cetshwayo at the Battle of Isandlwana. The battle was a complete disaster for the British force with an army of twelve hundred men completely destroyed in a field battle, something the British Army [...]