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Loonies unite
How much lunar material -- either just plain dust, or purified zinc / aluminum / titanium oxides -- would need to be launched into interplanetary trajectories to provide enough shading to produce a measurable decrease in Earth's insolation ( Read more... ) -
Do they know it's Christmas?
Yes, they do! A couple of my local grocery stores have eggnog on the shelves. -
Tim Horton's "plant-based sausage" isn't vegetarian
Not if you're concerned about cross-contamination with critter substances, at any rate ( Read more... ) -
Satire
On his Everything Possible - Fred Small in Concert recording, Small attributes to Tom Paxton: "Tom Paxton said it best. Some folks you don't have to satirize; you just quote 'em." (I've asked both Small and Paxton about this quotation. Paxton doesn't recall having said such a thing, nor does Small remember the circumstances.)
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Instantaneous communications
Our home phone rang. Just the once. The caller was gone long before I could get to the phone, before even the call-display thing was able to get the phone number. The call doesn't even register in the call history.
Hardly the first time, though usually the phone spammers at least connect long enough to have the call register. But what's the ( Read more... ) -
Building character
Ontario's government has been asserting that increasing high-school class sizes' maximum from 22 to 28 will be good for the students, by preparing them for the hardships of working life.
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Snippage
Pondering... would "autotonsillectomy" refer to tonsils spontaneously falling off, to removing one's own tonsils, or to yanking them out with a car? -
Shock and horror: Dumbledore
I've heard from several sources about something of a public uproar regarding J.K. Rowling's having revealed in commentary on the recently-released Fantastic Beasts DVD that Dumbledore was gay, and had had a relationship with Grindelwald. The revelation is being described as entertainment news.
Umm... 11½-year-old news?
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Story idea
Plot concept: random people, perhaps one in a thousand, suddenly acquire a moderate superpower, such as running-pace flight or throw-a-car-a-few-meters super strength, which fades away after a year or so. Result: a lot of criminal gangs which have a lot of turnover as well as mutual conflict ( Read more... )
