I’m not all about turning this blog into the same thing as Wikipedia — because you can find the basic answer to the question posed above by searching ‘manhole cover’ on there — but I do want to use it… Continue Reading
There was a stat on College Gameday this morning — I wasn’t watching live because I was sitting in a generally-boring strategy-type class — that Oregon has scored 45 points in each of their first seven games this year. The last team… Continue Reading
That’s from the latest census. Most interesting segment of this article to me: as recently as 2011, the median home price in America was about $166,000; now it’s $212,000. That’s a $46,000 difference. That can be 1-2.5 years (or more) of… Continue Reading
Second verse, same as the first (lil’ bit louder and a whole lot worse): for the latest quarter, Amazon’s revenues are up, but their profits are non-existent.They’re “the teacher’s pet” of Wall Street: stratospheric valuation (the stock has increased 32… Continue Reading
We might be. We (“we” as in the human race) just discovered the farthest galaxy ever. It has the sexy name of “z8_GND_5296,” and is about 30 billion light years from Earth (hard to wrap your head around that). It appears… Continue Reading
I just converted to Catholicism last spring, and one of the big arguments against the religion from some is that they don’t focus enough on the poor (conversely, some people will argue that they focus too much on the poor, which basically… Continue Reading
I was pretty big into baseball until I was about 17; phrased another way, you could say that I cared pretty deeply about the ins-and-outs of every game across the summer (when I was about 12-13, I kept notebooks of… Continue Reading
The simple story is that it has to do with protests of rural houses being set for destruction because of China’s desire to urbanize; 41 people have lit themselves on fire (it’s called self-immolation) between January 2009 and January 2012… Continue Reading