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5 Crazy Apple Products We're Glad Don't Exist
10 Fun Facts About Krampus, the Christmas Demon
Are your corporate overlords controlling you with light and sound?
Come the apocalypse, the only things that will survive are rats, cockroaches, seagulls, and fruitcake.
Here is Dungeon Squad! A simple, free role-playing game intended for younger players (but enjoyable by older ones), with lots of dice rolling and action. Here's a couple of adventures for it, here's an expansion, and here's a more complex version. Here's the expansion Adventure Squad, in three PDFs: Core - Abilities - D&D 3E Classes. Here's yet another expansion.
Strange Santa Claus Sightings: Swimming With Sharks, Dressed Like A Zombie, At The Optometrist
The Truth about Christmas Carols -- Howard Goodall uncovers the surprising and often secret history of the Christmas carol in this hour-long BBC documentary.
What is being scanned around the world The Internet Archive updated in real time.
What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics? A naive Quora question gets a remarkably long, thorough answer from an anonymous respondent. The answer cites, among many other things, Tim Gowers's influential essay "The Two Cultures of Mathematics," about the tension between problem-solving and theory-building. Related: Terry Tao asks "Does one have to be a genius to do maths?" (Spoiler: he says no.)
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