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• Bohemian Rhapsody – press conference scene (YouTube)
• Freddie Mercury — acoustic analysis of speaking fundamental frequency, vibrato, and subharmonics (Tayler & Francis Online)

Quantitative analysis utilizing a newly introduced parameter to assess the regularity of vocal vibrato corroborated its perceptually irregular nature, suggesting that vibrato (ir)regularity is a distinctive feature of the singing voice. Imitation of subharmonic phonation samples by a professional rock singer, documented by endoscopic high-speed video at 4,132 frames per second, revealed a 3:1 frequency locked vibratory pattern of vocal folds and ventricular folds.

• Good Vibrations Episode: Ep. 11 - Work the Body, Grow the Mind
• SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback (Cornell University)

In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stop speaking. Furthermore, this effect does not involve anyone but the speaker. We utilize this phenomenon and implemented two prototype versions by combining a direction-sensitive microphone and a direction-sensitive speaker, enabling the speech of a specific person to be disturbed. We discuss practical application scenarios of the system, such as facilitating and controlling discussions.

• Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) (Wikipedia)
• SpeechJammer won 2012 Ig Nobel Prize (YouTube)
• Botticelli’s Inferno (Wikipedia)
• Salvador Dalí (Wikipedia)
• Vincent van Gogh (Wikipedia)
• Geico Hump Day Commercial (YouTube)
• Don Quixote (Wikipedia)
• Quixotic in Spanish is quijotesco
• Before Swimming, Be Sure To Shower (Water Quality & Health Council)

A thorough shower with soap helps remove perspiration, body oils, cosmetics and traces of urine and fecal matter on the body. Sending those substances down the shower drain goes a long way toward reducing the “yuck factor” for everyone who shares the pool, but there is much more to consider.

The pre-swim shower helps minimize the irritating, smelly substances formed in pool water when impurities introduced on the bodies of swimmers combine with chlorine. Many people identify that smell as the smell of chlorine. The survey found 38 percent of people believe the characteristic chemical odor of some swimming pools in an indicator of a clean pool. In fact, that stringent odor is not from chlorine, but from irritants produced when chlorine reacts with impurities.

• Recreational Water Illnesses (CDC)
• Lexicon Valley Podcast (Slate)
• Deadwood: The Movie (Wikipedia)
• Ian McShane (Wikipedia)
• Deadwood: The Movie (HBO)
• Deadwood and the English Language (PDF) (Digital Commons)

If, as seems demonstrable, words like prick, cunt, shit, fuck, and cocksucker would have been in common usage in the time andplace in which Deadwood is set, then, like any words, in form and frequency their expression will be governed by the personality of a given character, imagined by the author with whatever imperfection, as the character is shaped and tested in the crucible of experience.

• Talk Pretty – The linguistic brilliance of HBO’s Deadwood (Slate)

Deadwood’s characters utter long, serpentine sentences, in diction that—depending on the speaker—can ascend to courtly abstraction or sink to the ripest vulgarity. Newspaperman Merrick (Jeffrey Jones), distraught over Hickok’s death and disgusted with McCall’s acquittal, offers a sarcastic toast: “Should it ever be your misfortune, gentlemen, or mine, to need to kill a man, then let us toast, together, the possibility that our trials be held in this camp.”

• Dawson’s Creek (Wikipedia)

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• Penny Lane video (YouTube)
• Surrogate Angels of Death – What to make of the First Lady holding the motherless child and youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre (The Cut)

Imagine this: A shooter has entered a public place, where you are walking with your family. You have but a minute to realize you can save your 2-month-old by using your own body to shield him from the bullets raining down around you. Mere days later, your baby, the youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre, will appear on television with the very man who inspired the terrorist who killed both you and your husband. A photograph is taken, for posterity.

• Bill Maher Monologue (YouTube)
• 88 Books about Abraham Lincoln (Good Reads)
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• Obama DeepFake Video (YouTube)
• TED Talk: Fake videos of real people – and how to spot them | Supasorn Suwajanakorn (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading: Trump In Asia (YouTube)

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• Moonstruck (IMDB)
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• Papa’s Bar & Grill and Mama’s Oyster House on Google Streetview (Google)

• Celts (Wikipedia)

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• Rupert’s Brew House
• National Tequila Day (National Today)

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• Are all the ants as heavy as all the humans? (BBC) SPOILER: NO.
• The Bugs Of The World Could Squish Us All (Five Thirty Eight)

“There’s an estimated 10 quintillion insects on the globe,” said Julie Peterson, professor of entomology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “That’s 10 with 18 zeros after it, and that’s just insects. That’s not counting other arthropods like spiders and mites.” Insects — along with ticks, centipedes, spiders and all the other land-dwelling creepy-crawlies that we colloquially call “bugs” — probably represent as much as 80 percent of the species on this planet. In contrast, humans are a single species, made up of (as of this writing) 7,386,922,190 individuals.

• Dennis’ Termite Video (YouTube)
• Insect burgers go on sale in Swiss supermarkets (Telegraph)
• Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger (Wikipedia) – Erik was wrong, they are made from plants (so far).
• Worldwide Favorites: Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger ad (YouTube)
• Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain (McDonalds)
• Google Maps Street View from square in Slovenia (Google Maps)

• Gross footage of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (YouTube)

• Will Baby Birds Be Rejected by Their Mother If You Handle Them? (Snopes) SPOILER: NO.

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• Does the Humble House Fly Vomit and Poop When it Lands on You? (Thought Co.)
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• Carowinds (Wikipedia)
• Forrest Gump Film Locations (Movie Locations)
• Forrest Gump meets Richard Nixon (YouTube)
• Making of Forrest Gump Ping-Pong Scenes (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading Channel (YouTube)
• Exclusive: The Bad Lip Reader Speaks (Rolling Stone)
• Bad Lip Reading: Bernie & Hillary (YouTube)
• Bad Lip Reading: Romney & Obama (YouTube)
• Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio (YouTube)

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• Wolverines vs. Spartans (Wikipedia)
• S’mores (Wikipedia)
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• Robert’s Rules of Order (Wikipedia)
• Consumers Concrete Promo Video (YouTube)
• Salmon River Falls (Wikipedia)
• Three Stooges Niagra Falls Skit (YouTube)
• Natchitoches, Louisiana (Wikipedia)

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• Everyone Poops (Wikipedia)

• The Karate Kid (1984) (IMDB)

• The Karate Kid II (1986) (IMDB)

• The Next Karate Kid (1994) (IMDB)

• The Karate Kid (2010) (IMDB)

• Cobra Kai (IMDB)

• What’s so funny about Jerry Lewis? (Rolling Stone)

  It seems that Jerry categorically refuses to wear a pair of socks more than once. Every morning, Jerry receives a new pair of socks. He wears them all day and then throws them out. Jerry Lewis may well spend $5,000 a year on socks alone.

• Infinitus annorum braccas (Google Translate)

• Liar Paradox (Wikipedia)

• Kurt Gödel (Wikipedia)

• Tesseract (Wikipedia)

• Simpsons God (Simpsons Wiki)

• “My kingdom for a horse” (Wikipedia)

• Scaramouche (Wikipedia)

• Anthony Scaramucci (Wikipedia)

• Trump faces giant penis mowed into field near airport where he lands for UK state visit, in climate change protest (The Independent)

• Monty Python: “The Funniest Joke In The World” (YouTube)

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• Human-Goat Hybrids in Folklore (Wikipedia)
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• Gibson Guitars (Wikipedia)
• The Man in the High Castle (Wikipedia)
• For All Mankind (IMDB)
• For All Mankind - Trailer (YouTube)
• First Man (IMDB)
• Great Man Theory (Wikipedia)
• Larry McMurtry (Wikipedia)
• Westworld (IMDB)
• Anchoring (Wikipedia)

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• Santiago Matamoros – Saint James the Moor-slayer (Wikipedia)
• Sadly, our research team was unable to find Dennis’ published essay in US Catholic Magazine
• George Bush: ‘God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’ (The Guardian)
• “Jewish Child”? “Muslim Child”? “Christian Child”? (Richard Dawkins Foundation)

My oft-repeated (some might say too oft) point about the absurdity – indeed wickedness – of labelling children with the religion of their parents (“Would you speak of a ‘Postmodernist child’, or a ‘Gramscian Marxist child’?”) is usually effective. People nearly always get the point immediately, although whether their future consciousness is raised to the point of actually wincing, as I do, whenever they hear ‘Catholic child’ or ‘Muslim child’ is another matter.

• Honduras Lost City of the Monkey God Discovered (The Guardian)

• Pizza Vesuvio (Paris)

• Michael Moore’s documentary clip on Finland’s school system (YouTube)

• Where to Invade Next (Wikipedia)

• Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk on Education (YouTube)

• Moulting / Molting (Wikipedia)

• David Brooks (commentator) (Wikipedia)

• Jimmy Carter Sunday School (Reuters)

• Stinger (cocktail) (Wikipedia)

• Right to be forgotten (Wikipedia)

• The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (YouTube)

• The New Games Book (Amazon)

  

• Smaug’s Jewel (The Physical Educator)

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• List of Disney Parks – Spoiler: there are 6 of them. (Wikipedia)
• Disneyland Paris (Disney)
• FastPass (Wikipedia)
• Cutest Babies Seeing for the First Time Compilation (YouTube)
• childrensjoy.com is available for $3,215 at Hover
• Colonel Sanders kisses with Aunt Jemima (YouTube)
• Colonel Sanders lifts Aunt Jemima (YouTube)
• The riddle of experience vs. memory, TED Talk by Daniel Kahneman (YouTube)
• French Bathrooms (Paris Perfect)
• That “Five Monkey’s Experiment” Never Happened (Throwcase)
• Happy Hour Patreon (Patreon) 💰💰💰
• First Black Hole Image (Time)
• Hawking Radiation (Wikipedia)

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• 8 US States Have Made Happy Hour Illegal (Spoon University)
• How Golf Explains Trump. Seriously. (Vox)
• Commander in Cheat, How Golf Explains Trump, by Rick Reilly (Amazon)

• Let’s remember the time Donald Trump cashed a 13¢ check sent to him as a prank (Spinter)
• The History Behind the Donald Trump “Small Hands” Insult (ABC News)
• Trump did not have his hands photoshopped bigger (Snopes)
• Angola Convict Rodeo
• CBS Sunday Morning story about the Convict Rodeo (YouTube)
• Monkeys Riding Dogs Herding Sheep (YouTube)
• Imperdible (SpanishDict)
• Kansas Supreme Court: Abortion now a constitutional right in state (KSNT)

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• Blackstreet - No Diggity ft. Dr. Dre, Queen Pen (YouTube)
• Sagardotegi - the type of cider house in the Basque Country (Wikipedia)
• The Long Pour: Sidra de Asturias

  The long pour is serious stuff for sidra enthusiasts, and there are certain rules to achieving the perfect long pour. For starters, the glass is held with the thumb and forefinger, with the middle finger supporting the bottom of the glass (and the ring and pinky finger tucked away in the palm of the hand). The arm holding the glass must be stretched down straight with the glass held at the center of the body. The arm holding the bottle must be stretched straight and high above the head. When the bottle is tipped and the cider is poured, the stream of cider must find the glass while the glass stays still. It’s the responsibility of the cider-pourer to ensure that the cider foams.

• Great video shot by an American demonstrating the Basque cider house experience (YouTube)
• International Animal Sounds (ESL)
• Chicken Dance (YouTube)
• Hokey Pokey (Wikipedia)
• The Ambitious Origins of the Hokey Pokey (Mental Floss)
• Whirling Dervishes (Wikipedia)
• Nun (2017) (IMDB)
• How did they get Mr. Ed to talk? (The Straight Dope)

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• Pale Blue Dot photo (Wikipedia)
• Pale Blue Dot book (Wikipedia)

“We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there — on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light . . .

To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

— Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

• There are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible NCAA basketball tournament brackets.
• Overview Effect (Wikipedia)
• Spaceship Earth (Wikipedia)
• The Habitat podcast (Gimlet Media)
• Christina Koch (NASA)
• It costs about $20 to get a gram into low earth orbit. (StackExchange)
• French Quarter Festival
• Money Buys Happiness Up To $70,000 / year (Time)
• How Fast Would You Have to Go To Make A Red Light Look Green? Relativistic Doppler Effect – Spoiler: 54,900 km/s (Science Notes)
• MacKenzie Bezos $1.1 billion divorce settlement (CCN)
• Cindy Lou Who (Suess Wikia)
• Anyhoo (Merriam-Webster)

I’m assuming Pelosi isn’t a Jewish name, right? It sounds Italian but I’m bad that way. Anyhoo … give me a shout back and let’s get the dialogue going!!— Rob Long, National Review, 20 Nov. 2006

Anyhoo. These divers saved a shark.— Kathie Lee Gifford, NBC News Transcripts, 4 Mar. 2010

… moving with the animated dash peculiar to the quickie films of the time, snapping such lines as “Say, what’s the big idea, anyhoo?”— Diane Werts, Newsday, 21 July 1991

Speaking of blonds with ambition, check out the latest from Tara Reid. You remember her—party girl, sometimes does a little acting. Anywho, she’s looking into other ventures, just like Miss Paris H.— Jan Uebelherr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2008

• Law of large numbers (Wikipedia)

• Mandela Effect, a phenomenon of common false memories, like “Fly my pretties! Fly!” (Wikipedia)

• Misremembered “Fly my pretties” clip (YouTube)

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• The Ricky Gervais Show (Wikipedia)

• The Ricky Gervais Show, Season 1, Episode 1 (YouTube)

• Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)

• What Twins Can Tell Us About Who We Are (Hidden Brain Podcast)

• How to play together online? (Stack Exchange)

• The Longest Shortest Time

• Michigan State defeats LSU in Sweet 16, 80-63 (NOLA)

• Amazon Basics

• Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 (Wikipedia)

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• Bacchanal Wine, winery in New Orleans
• Bacchanalia (Wikipedia)
• Tailgate Party (Wikipedia)
• Jack White and Jack Black (Wikipedia)

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• Hold My Beer (Know Your Meme)
• Jackass - Meat stuffed underwear over alligators (YouTube)
• Black Knight (Monty Python) (Wikipedia)
• Tab Benoit
• Jake Kershaw
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) (Wikipedia)
• Christina Hammock Koch NASA Astronaut (NASA)
• Neoclassical Architecture (Wikipedia)
• The Quarrymen (Wikipedia)
• Dinah Washington (Wikipedia)
• Wildflowers (Tom Petty album) (Wikipedia)
• Morra (game) (Wikipedia)

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• “We’re in a tight spot!”, from O Brother, Where Art Thou? (YouTube)
• Billy Bookcase (IKEA)
• IKEA Effect (Wikipedia)
• Big (IMDB)
• I Feel Pretty (IMDB)
• Jared Ruston, Billy, from Big (IMDB)
• Airy Soho love featured in Big sells for $9.75M
• Minecraft
• Four Yorkshiremen Sketch (again)
• Michael Cohen SNL Cold Open (YouTube)
• “As I have always said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about", Roger Stone (NYT)

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• Ann Ivory Studios
• Jesus Fresco Restoration (Wikipedia)
• Life of Brian Debate, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (YouTube)
• Corpsing (Wikipedia)
• The Four Yorkshiremen, Monty Python Sketch (YouTube)
• First and Second Councils of Nicaea (Wikipedia)
• Moonstruck Scene (YouTube)

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• Garter Snake (Wikipedia)
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• 220-year-old beer (The Guardian)
• Spain 1 - 2 USA (FIFA)
• USA 2 - 0 Netherlands (FIFA)
• The 2019 Women’s World Cup prize money is $30 million — 7.5% of the Men’s World Cup prize (CNBC)
• Battle of Hastings (Wikipedia)
• Magna Carta (Wikipedia)
• Cudcast, an LGBT chat show, is an actual podcast already.

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