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So I was reading about the latest amateur sports recruiting scandal on the "Pack Pride" bulletin board. (For fans and followers of the N.C. State Wolfpack.) The alleged involvement of the University of Louisville's basketball team came up. And poster "beowolf" got off this crack:
21st century recruiting is rough when free hookers aren't enough.
They think they've finally figured out how the ancient Egyptians moved all those heavy blocks so far. As had been suspected, water was apparently involved.
Some excellent songs. (5-minute video.) But then there's a lot to choose from.
I posted briefly on this once before, but given that my older daughter has blue eyes, I still find it interesting.
Here's hoping the explanation pans out and that they can then do something about it.
A very interesting piece on Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
In the years leading up to the Revolution, as the question of breaking away from the Mother Country heated up, Carroll faced a dilemma: remain loyal to the Crown, which had persecuted his family for 200 years, or join the rebels, who were persecuting him and his family right now.
Continued good news for data scientists.
Makes some sense, but "more research is needed".
If don't want to read it, before the Big Bang was, supposedly, Alan Guth's inflation.
Believe it or don't: "The handgun weighs 13.4 ounces with an empty magazine and is 5.6” long."