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Any Of You Still Listen To Shortwave?
If you don't know what shortwave is, then you don't listen to it. You probability don't even own a radio that tunes to the shortwave bands (which are above the…
The Advent of Lousy Music
Stream: The Advent of Lousy Music Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to read could be true. The names and locations have not been changed to protect the…
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Give It Up
Time for the semi-annual reminder. Give it up, readers. Dig in and pay out. Here are the ways to support the blog. Hire Briggs. Use the Contact form. Have Briggs…
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How Long Is A “Blink of an Eye” Astronomically?
This post originally ran 24 October 2010. In a 15 January Science news item, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reported that the earliest galaxies began to form around 300 million years after the…
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I Applied To Make Our Planet Great Again
In need of a job and having a fondness for cheese, wine and pétanque, and knowing the difference between gauche et droite, and seeing the sad, pleading, almost tearful look…
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E-Classes (& Other Changes) Coming
Many changes coming.. Site fixes You've seen the new theme by now. Many more people were reading on "devices" and the old format was not well suited. Plus, the typography…
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Covfefe Sing-A-Long
Sung to Shaving Cream. Covfefe = cov-fee-fee. The night Donald Trump took to Twitter Elites had a terrible fit Trump warned the world of covfefe And Tweet streams were filled…
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I’m No Longer At Cornell
I got fired about a month ago. This would ordinarily fall under the categories, "About time" or "So?", and thus it is not worth mentioning. Except for this. I had…