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Pop Quiz - Advanced Placement - Education Life - Interactive Quiz - A.P. Economics - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com I got 14/18, which isn't all that bad if you consider that I never took economics at any level. (tags: economics business quiz) Think Progress » TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To…
Songs for the Dumped: The Prelude | Popdose "[A] two-week anthology in which music nerds write about tracks they've attached to a particular crippling breakup, let you splash around in the stories behind them and hopefully, if we've done our jobs, make you feel slightly better about your own mi (…
Solar System Visualizer Look at those planets and moons go! (tags: astronomy planets science computing internet gadgets) Polar vortex replicated in a bucket - physicsworld.com "The centre of the vortex is usually circular, but occasionally it assumes a triangular or even a square shape. Now…
Bruce Springsteen misreads the national mood in his halftime performance. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine A desperately stupid article about the Super Bowl halftime show (tags: politics stupid society sports music) PHD Comics: Not a good sign "I should be done in a year..." (tags:…

I almost always like your link lists. I wonder how you find all these things? Anyway, I'm certainly going to talk like a physicist on March 14. Once I forgot the word "slide" when talking about a playground, and tried to explain it as an inclined plane... And of course, if I want to make an appointment I always ask for people's boundary conditions.