Last week Madelyn Pugh Davis died. She is best known for the 174 scripts she wrote for the I Love Lucy show. Her career as a screenwriter spanned decades, through the mid-1980’s. Davis was born in 1921 in Indianapolis, where she edited her high school newspaper. She earned a journalism degree at Indiana University, and […]
Continue ReadingA sudden blare of sound is never a good way to wake up. And thanks to Daylight Saving Time (fist shake at George Vernon Hudson) we’ll be getting up an hour earlier starting Sunday, March 13. So why not geek up the clocks that alarm us? Hunt Down Your Alarm Mr. Wake, featured on makezine.com, was […]
Continue ReadingI’ve never encountered a book quite like the marvelously intelligent and imaginative Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. Written by neuroscientist David Eagleman, this intriguing book offers wildly divergent speculative tales. Each is only a few pages, but Eagleman packs them with such fresh ideas that it’s best to read only one at a […]
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Continue ReadingFabrice Jouvenot, scientific explainer at the French science museum La Cité des Sciences, drives his cycle in Paris’ streets and show “the magic of soap bubbles”. The video, directed by Roland Cros, is provided by Universcience.tv, the scientific web-tv of the Cité des Sciences and the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. Universcience.tv is […]
Continue ReadingThe Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure just sold its millionth butterbeer, which creates a nice segue into two burning questions about the Hogsmeade brew of choice: Does it contain butter? Does it contain beer? No on both counts. Having a son who’s ragingly allergic to dairy, I shook down several […]
Continue ReadingBooks, movies, TV are the regular medium for geeks in the know. But what about YouTube? I watch YouTube and the chances are pretty darn high that you do too, considering YouTube exceeds two-billion views a day. And although men in the US spend more time watching videos online than women (and we can only […]
Continue ReadingThe sewer under Greene Street was only four feet high. It got smaller and smaller, until they were forced on hands and knees, then eventually on their bellies. Crawling through raw sewage. The ceiling was higher on Canal Street, they report, but the floor was caked with so much feces they sank in it like […]
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