It turns out the storyline surrounding Alum mining in the #Medici series on Netflix is related to actual historical events:
https://reason.com/archives/2019/03/23/not-even-the-pope-can-maintain
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Janelle ShaneSome neural net generated boat names, for your boat or perhaps your self aware starship http://dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/183612178576/sky-shark-sun-princess-windsprite-sandy
I just learned about the "Block Stacking Problem"
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.1933957
https://www.pbs.org/video/building-an-infinite-bridge-xwh5bz/
What a great way to introduce the harmonic series!
I always seem to make the same mistake when returning to C++ after a hiatus writing in higher-level languages: forgetting to convert an int before using it in a mathematical expression with doubles. Even worse, it always takes me 30 minutes to figure out that this is why I'm getting crazy results. So note to future self: be careful with types!
[Moved] PolychromeASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
XKCD BotIt's so sad how almost no one alive today can remember seeing the galactic rainbow, the insanity nebula, or the skull and glowing eyes of the Destroyer of Sagittarius.
https://xkcd.com/2121/
https://xkcd.com/2121/
Mr. Matt 
Interesting EsotericaMethods for studying coincidences
Book by Diaconis, P and Mosteller, Frederick
In collections: Easily explained, Probability and statistics
This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and methods of analysis...
URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-44956-2_39
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Diaconis2006
Book by Diaconis, P and Mosteller, Frederick
In collections: Easily explained, Probability and statistics
This article illustrates basic statistical techniques for studying coincidences. These include data-gathering methods (informal anecdotes, case studies, observational studies, and experiments) and methods of analysis...
URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-44956-2_39
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Diaconis2006
A project to resurrect and promote English words unfairly consigned to the historical dustbin: