According to this BBC2 series, on average there are ~1MM passengers in the air at any given moment, equivalent to a moderately-sized city. The series (3x1hr) is a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into supporting that city. So far I've watched the first two episodes, covering stuff like ( Read more... )

Pea plants understand variance

In a series of follow-up experiments, they then split the roots of each plant between two pots that had equal average nutrient concentrations, but where one pot had a constant level and the other a variable level, asking whether plants would 'prefer' to grow more roots in one or the other. [...] the researchers ( Read more... )

via boingboing, a color-coded map of the world according to the subject matter of each country's national anthem.

I find it difficult to believe this conversation actually took place in a courtroom, but, well, there's what purports to be a court reporter's statement, court seal, the works ( Read more... )

I was in LV last weekend, not for the WSOP, but I did meet up with a few people for dinner including Bill, Kenny and Terrence. One of the great things about my poker friends peer group is the implicit assumption that we will CCR for the check. After we took care of this (Kenny and I got down to heads up but he ended up paying), I remembered that ( Read more... )

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After mention was made of this on the AA forum at FlyerTalk:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/customerService/customerCommitment/conditionsOfCarriage.jsp#acceptanceofpassengers

American may refuse to transport you, or ( Read more... )

In email: "I just noticed there is a Wikipedia translation in Esperanto. The Internet never fails to astonish me ( Read more... )

As some good fraction of the people still reading LJ probably know, I have pivoted my EV whoring these days into an airline travel/frequent flyer program focus these days. The click-baity version of the title might be "top N secrets the airlines don't want you to know!" But srsly, these things are worth knowing.

0. Not an airline secret, but ( Read more... )

OK so it's possible I've developed a bit of an obsession with Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's symphonies for piano. I have now listened to the 7th a bunch, and recently the 5th and 9th ( Read more... )