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It appears that Jeopardy! is the highest profile stop on the elite quiz circuit, but others carry greater prestige

Question answered

High-volume and -quality information and advice about improving sleep

Rob infuses this series of lectures about metta with genuine love and kindness. Inspiring and profound.

After watching this, I fully expect you to tell me that Tom Hanks is still the sexiest man alive.

Downloadable audio if you want to listen instead

A source I read several weeks ago implied that this was a special comet. This NASA article makes it sound barely worth the effort to step outside after sunset 🤷

Somewhat interesting video aboard a B-52

Astronomers predict a star will explode this year brightly enough for us to see

An amazing tool that dynamically generates sounds of various kinds

A neat tool that plots the frequency of terms appearing in the Google Books database, currently indexed between 1800 and 2019.

Examples:

• Web services
• Pop musicians
• Religions

They captured this video by relaying the signal through Starship’s wake to the Starlink network. I don’t know if anyone has seen the plasma phase in real-time before. Perhaps the military via their satellite network

The Horner chaos exposed the fact that Red Bull Racing is co-owned by an Austrian group and a Thai group. How did people from Thailand get involved with Red Bull? Because a Thai man invented the energy drink. Red Bull's Austrian founder invested after finding it helped with jet lag.

From a car conversation comment...

The hand with a wheel in the palm is a symbol for ahimsa, meaning nonviolence. It comes from Jainism

I'll see your Wadi Rum and raise you a Kailasa

And yet the delta is only +2% red (seven seats)

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Clearly not

Did we meet this tour guide?

This explains it well

This author's book is about a unit of soldiers from northern Alabama. Southern Union sympathizers comprised about 5% of the Union Army. Mentally bookmark the data point that the South wasn't entirely Confederate.

Although they were committed to preserving the Union, they weren't abolitionists.

The author said during the interview that about 5% of Southern land owners were wealthy enough to own slaves. The vast majority of farms were too small and economically incapable.

We shouldn't laugh, but... yeah, we should laugh. Probably a waste of perfectly good RC cars