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Laurie Penny about Trump’s alt-right internet army
Reading the book reviews I learned about Cybersexism by Laurie Penny and how this is a must read. Reading the bio on her blog it states Laurie Pennie is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. She reported for the Guardian about the republican convention in 2016 where various alt-right characters united behind Donald Trump.…
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Scientific Quote 1
“Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star.” ― Paul Dirac
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Back To the Future 2
A few weeks ago we decided to watch the trilogy as a family. I had only seen the first movie as a teenager in the eighties. The second one I hadn’t seen at all and from the third I had caught a few glimpses while zapping. Watching the first movie again after 30 years was…
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Back to the Future
A few weeks ago we went for an afternoon walk in the sun and talked with friends about how they had watched Back the Future with the family some time back. As we are always contemplating which movies are good to watch as a family ourselves we took the tip and dug up the dvd…
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Pancake flipping
Imagine you want to sort a stack of pancakes by size with the largest pancake at the bottom of the stack, the next one on top and so on with the smallest pancake ending up on top of the stack. It may seem silly to you but this is a problem being studied by mathematicians.…
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Elementary Math Riddle
What number am I ? I am a four digit number. The sum of the first and third digit is equal to the second digit: The sum of the first and fourth digit is equal to the third digit. The product of the first 2 digits is equal to the sum of the first and…
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Duigen
Als iets in duigen valt wil dat zeggen dat het mislukt. Duigen zijn de houten planken die met metalen hoepels bij elkaar worden gehouden om een ton te vormen. Vallen de planken uit elkaar dan valt de ton in duigen. In het kinderliedje zit Jan Huygen in de ton, met een hoepeltje erom, en de…
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Zilver is beter dan Goud
In een competitie wil iedereen de gouden medaille behalen maar als er bacteriën bij betrokken zijn is zilver beter dan goud. Bacteriën gaan namelijk dood als ze in contact komen met zilver. Daarom worden zilverdeeltjes verwerkt in veel schoonmaakdoeken en in verven en coatings voor oppervlakken die bacterievrij moeten zijn. Gelezen in de wetenschapskalender van…
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The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
Listened to this album again during the 2020 XMas holidays. Although from Sweden, these 2 sisters have a very American folk sound. I discovered this album after hearing the hit song Blue on the radio in 2012. I bought the CD and loved it. The other hit on the album is Emmylou which is certainly…
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Catalina
I am way behind the curve when it comes to updating my Mac OS. One reason is some bad prior experience with peripherals no longer being supported after upgrading. Sometimes it looks like people at Canon believe that 1 year is an acceptable life span for a printer. I have to say that the last…
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