Tag: Entertainment
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Reprinting Ferguson’s orrery
Reprint from 2021, triggered by previous item about ancient mitochondria. Are mitochondria the sensors for universal magnetic influence? Is Solarion the original orrery? = = = = = Picking up from previous post on James Ferguson. Previously I showed a couple of science entertainments using static fields to drive gadgets. Ferguson’s main focus was orreries…
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Ned Green and enjoyable science
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2021 REPRINT: Following part 1 and part 2 and part 3. Saved the best for last. Colonel Ned Green was the most influential of these three men. Money talks, and intelligently-directed ENJOYABLE money talks best. His mother Hetty Green was the equivalent of…
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Today is & day!
Time to reprint again the genuine history of the symbol, which doesn’t match the standard etymology. = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve always been bothered by the bizarre-sounding etymology of Ampersand. The symbol itself is no mystery: just a stylized version of et. But the usual etymology for the name doesn’t make a…
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The Ponca Folly House is for sale!
Many years ago I wrote up my personal experience with Follies, as part of my long-term theme of Science as Entertainment. Some of the best science labs were Follies in this sense, structures added to a house or yard purely to entertain or amuse guests or neighbors. One of my personal experiences was a house…
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Good oneliner
Spokane News is back in the entertainment biz after being too serious for a while. 1500 North Argonne, Assault Reported with one male who tried to flee from Deputies but obviously skipped Track during High School and didn’t make it far. Male in custody. One commenter saw the chase and said Deputy was quick af.…
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Lowe’s perfect word
The “two” “sides” are pointlessly arguing about the network decision to drop Colbert. One side says the network was cowardly, the other side says it was brave. (I hardly know who the dude is, since I haven’t watched any TV since 2010 and never watched the late night “comedy” shows either on TV or on…
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Thatcher as editor
Enjoying the latest print issue of History Today. I appreciate both the content and the form. It resembles an old-fashioned newspaper with features and short human interest stories. I read those first, then the articles that look interesting. This month includes an inside look at Thatcher’s speechwriters. Unlike most politicians she recognized her own limitations.…
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The other Charles
I’ve never understood the appeal of spaceflight and ETs. Sciencey nerds are supposed to be fascinated by planets and stars and endless space. Nope. Give me creeks and houses and streets and people. I’d rather look about me, take hold of the things that are here, talk to them and let them talk to me.…
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Farmers are about to be replaced!!!
All those outdated old-fashioned farmers who are still doing it the stupid way, planting seeds in soil and harvesting the crops, had better watch out! Their hopelessly obsolete methods are about to be overturned by: The Most Holy And Noble Innovator ***C*R*A*I*G***W*R*I*G*H*T*** After successfully overturning a thousand years of obsolete fiat banking and replacing all…
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True and deep
Myq Kaplan, a pro comedian, has been posting oneliners on Substack. Most are good puns, worth a quick smile or chuckle. This one is true and deep! The meek shall inherit the earth…. as soon as the bold are off conquering the rest of the solar system and don’t want earth anymore.
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No sympathy
I note that the “mayor” in Spokane has joined other “mayors” in a court brief opposing Trump’s cuts to research funding. No sympathy. The corruption of federal funding has been blatantly obvious and perfectly well known inside academia. Everybody knows it and everybody keeps taking it. For christ’s fucking sake, EISENHOWER warned about it in…
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Did science as entertainment continue?
Yesterday’s mention of symphonies that wear out the bass drum and the eardrum with endlessly hammered final movements reminded me of Peter Schickele’s classical parodies. Schickele mainly focused on the finicky excesses of Baroque Purists. I was a finicky Baroque Purist, so I appreciated his work. This led to a broader thought about science as…
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Buy the dippy
Via Protos: = = = = = START PROTOS: Donald Trump’s inauguration pastor Reverend Lorenzo Sewell has launched a crypto token that he says will help him and his followers to accomplish God’s vision. Unfortunately for Sewell and God, the token is down 97%. Just hours after Trump’s swearing-in ceremony the pastor announced the launch…
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Monarch without territory
Took a quick look at Columbia “Journalism” Review. A remarkable display of total blindness and convoluted ignorance. They are “preparing for war” against Trump. Trouble is, they don’t have any soldiers. “Journalism” is a dead empire that can no longer draft customers by spitting on them and punching them in the face. Over and over,…
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Self-solving globalism
Randomly reading some of the old magazines at American Radio Library reminded me of a change I’d forgotten. It’s relevant to the recent decline of big centralized entertainment and “journalism”, quickly replaced by more individual and local talent carried on Youtube or Tiktok. A country music mag from 1966 had monthly columns on the music…
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