You might recognize Ken Nordine's voice from TV commercial and movie trailer voiceovers. What you might not know about is his musical work that he called "word jazz". This included several LPs and a long running radio show on NPR, one of which is linked in this submission....
This is an analysis I did some time ago comparing FIDE ratings to lichess ratings. The biggest part of the work was finding a reliable way to get both ratings for the same set of players. A lot of players on lichess post their FIDE ratings, but unfortunately, some players will post joke ratings, or just outright lie....
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accepted a 2008 trip to a luxury fishing lodge in Alaska from two wealthy Republican donors, one of whom repeatedly had interests before the court. That's according to the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica, which also reported that that the conservative jurist did not...
Pare Lorentz's poetic documentary film The River (1937) tells the story of how agricultural practices along the Mississippi river led to topsoil loss and flooding during the depression era, eventually leading to soil conservation practices and dam construction. Flooding broke out on the Ohio river during filming, and is...
This film documents the rush to repair damage to the tunnel spillways of the Glen Canyon Dam that were damaged when they had to be used for the first time in 1983 due to record-breaking runoff into the Colorado river. As repairs were taking place, waters again began to rise in Lake Powell in 1984, creating a race against nature...
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong's first words from the Moon were "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind," but what about the other astronauts and later missions? I picked through transcripts of each mission to find out....
There is a very real possibility that he said the "a", but that his sound-activated helmet mike's response time was too slow to catch it. I remember reading a whole analysis of the possibility many years ago.
A lot of paywalls disappear when you turn off javascript. I use a plugin that adds a button to quickly toggle javascript for specific web pages. It works for a large percentage of paywalled articles. On the few paywalled sites where I actually use javascript, it is easy to just turn it back on again when needed. The plugin I use is JavaScript Switcher, but there are others out there.
I did not know about reader mode. It seems that it is unavailable for some websites, so it can still be useful to switch off JavaScript in those cases.
Ken Nordine's Word Jazz Radio (1980)s (archive.org)
You might recognize Ken Nordine's voice from TV commercial and movie trailer voiceovers. What you might not know about is his musical work that he called "word jazz". This included several LPs and a long running radio show on NPR, one of which is linked in this submission....
Mystery! intro (1980)s (www.youtube.com)
Intro to the PBS show MYSTERY! using animation of Edward Gorey.
OC FIDE vs. lichess rating comparison
This is an analysis I did some time ago comparing FIDE ratings to lichess ratings. The biggest part of the work was finding a reliable way to get both ratings for the same set of players. A lot of players on lichess post their FIDE ratings, but unfortunately, some players will post joke ratings, or just outright lie....
Justice Alito accepted Alaska resort vacation from GOP donors, report says (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accepted a 2008 trip to a luxury fishing lodge in Alaska from two wealthy Republican donors, one of whom repeatedly had interests before the court. That's according to the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica, which also reported that that the conservative jurist did not...
Pare Lorentz's poetic documentary The River (1937) (www.youtube.com)
Pare Lorentz's poetic documentary film The River (1937) tells the story of how agricultural practices along the Mississippi river led to topsoil loss and flooding during the depression era, eventually leading to soil conservation practices and dam construction. Flooding broke out on the Ohio river during filming, and is...
Challenge at Glen Canyon (1983) (www.youtube.com)
This film documents the rush to repair damage to the tunnel spillways of the Glen Canyon Dam that were damaged when they had to be used for the first time in 1983 due to record-breaking runoff into the Colorado river. As repairs were taking place, waters again began to rise in Lake Powell in 1984, creating a race against nature...
OC What were the first words spoken on the moon for each mission?
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong's first words from the Moon were "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind," but what about the other astronauts and later missions? I picked through transcripts of each mission to find out....
YSK How to bypass paywalls on news articles
Why YSK: Information should be free and open for all...