Live at the Witch Trials

Nine days in 2015 were the hottest for that day of the year since 1772. This compares to three in 2014 , though 2014 had a hotter average te...

I was in the Burj Khalifa last week. It is very big. But when will some bigger building be built? I want to look at the building height tre...

Vox has an article that mentions the artistic benefits of on demand TV viewing The first factor was the rise of the DVR, which has made it...

People will fight over any bit of land. "Rockall is about 25 metres (80 ft) wide and 31 metres (100 ft) long at its base[24] and rise...

There is a common meme that is easy to find with a twitter search If you read Jared Diamond or Stephen Pinker they talk about the reall...

This is the third and final post in a series on Stephen King adaptations. (The first is Are Stephen King films better than the books? , an...

My last post (and data) got a bit popular on reddit . Some people noticed that Stephen King films ratings and the books ratings seemed high...

Rejoice, Snobs: The Book IS Better Than The Movie The literary originals have higher ratings than the film adaptations 74 percent of the ti...

The Gömböc is a self righting shape. A bit like a turtle that will always rotate back to standing up if placed on its back. This shape was...

A stacked area chart of transatlantic slave trace made with c3.js and the transatlantic slave trade database The graph shows the count...

Danny Boyle films revolve around a group of friends who find X. And how X affects their relationship. Where for each film X is Sha...

The man in the white suit is about a scientist who invents clothes that never wear out and never need washing. It is from 1951 and deals Al...

" Between 1990 and 2010, the number of 18-hole golf courses in Ireland exploded from 213 to 352." Searching Golden Pages gives ...

Hecuba mother of Hector and Paris in the Iliad pours one out for her homies Stay, till I bring the cup with Bacchus crown'd, In Jo...

Penrose's Law[3][4] states that the population size of prisons and psychiatric hospitals are inversely related, although this is general...

There is an interesting article in 20th Sept issue of Irish Daily Mail on Sunday by Alison O'Reilly on the emotional difficulties pries...

In Japan, faxes are still used extensively for cultural and graphemic reasons and are available for sending to both domestic and internati...

Kevin Kelly pointed out that we have more types of things (species of technology) than even the most wealthy had in the past. "count t...

I read this interesting article in the diminishing interest in surfing. Can Anyone Save the Surf Industry? . The author uses All the out...

You rent a Uhaul truck in New York to move to a new job in Texas. UHaul will be left with a truck in Texas. If people really want to go New...