A History of Music and Technology
Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason charts a history of the innovations which have shaped popular music, from the advent of sound recording to the electric guitar and the synthesizer.
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Astrology Beliefs among Undergraduate Students
A survey of the science knowledge and attitudes toward science of nearly 10000 undergraduates at a large public university over a 20-year period included several questions addressing student beliefs in astrology and other forms of pseudoscience. The results from our data reveal that a large majority of students (78%) considered astrology “very” or “sort of”…
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What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
In the debate over whether human beings should set off to other worlds beyond Earth, one of the most compelling cons is this: Our bodies don’t like it. Few people know this better than Scott Kelly, the NASA astronaut who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station from 2015 to 2016. Like other…
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Linus Pauling Report Card
For those who dont know who Linus Pauling is he won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. I dont count his 1962 Nobel Peace Prize since this is just a popularity contest. The only person to have won two true Nobel Prizes is Marie Curie. He got an F in Gymnasium in the second semester…
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Market History 101
Apparently according to Kevin Rudd, Ken Henry the now departed Chairman of NAB whose put up a stellar performance at the Royal Commission into banking where he suggested that anyone could overlook charging $100 million in fees for no service is a great bloke and a genius who helped Rudd avoid another great depression following…
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Its Not The Tool
There is an old adage that it is not the tool but rather the person which wields that determines ones effectiveness. Let me give you two examples one historical and extreme and the other trading related. In 1941 and early 1942 Japanese aviators crashed their way through the Pacific – superior aviators in a superior…
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