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The Least Essential Albums Of 2007 | The A.V. Club "Every year produces great music and a nearly equal amount of terrible music. Then there's the not-so-creamy middle, the albums that have no real reason to exist, but nonetheless find their way to music-store shelves and online music stores." (…
nanoscale views: What does it mean for a material to be an "insulator"? "We broadly lump solids into two groups, those that conduct electricity and those that don't. Materials in the latter category are known as insulators, and it turns out that there are at least three different kinds." (tags:…
Questions Odd and Profound - NYTimes.com "In the following pairs of excerpts, which sample, A or B, is from a Royal Society letter, explaining earnest scientific endeavor, and which is the work of a deeply skeptical satirist in the guise of Lemuel Gulliver? " (tags: science history literature…
Monkeys perform arithmetic as well as college students I knew that. (tags: academia education biology math psychology news science) Merck Manual for Pet Health - Ferret Hit by an Arrow? Here's a Book for You - New York Times The Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health: Home Edition: Because…

No Andrew Bird?!? Why, I'll... I'll... shoot them through with rays of dark matter!