This Sunday I heard in a podcast a researcher telling the story of how they started a research institute from a meeting with friends over Pizza. That got me thinking how we (and by “we”, I mean “I”, but I suspect that I’m not alone in this), how we have less social meetings these days, […]
Reddit is probably one of the worst sites on the internet out there, but it’s sub-community “Ask Historians” is probably one of the best sites on the internet out there. Today I ran across the discussion below, which begins with a user asking about the differences between the Serfdom and Slavery systems, but gets a […]
I’ve recently finished The Martian in record time. It was a very fine book. A large part of the book is narrated in “Blog” format from the protagonist, which made me think of my own semi-abandoned blog. How many of my passing thoughts have been lost to the void? Maybe it is better this way […]
You might have seen the “Japanese Batman” floating around the internet recently. A guy dressed as batman, on a batman themed trike(?) has been seen in Japanese highways by many people, and pictures like these have been floating around: Reddit recently linked to an interview that this guy gave to a Japanese TV program. After […]
This week, south Korea has elected a new president. I won’t pretend to know anything about korean politics and make some sort of comentary, because I really know nothing. One thing that I noticed, though, is that there is a huge thread in reddit about it. In that thread, a lot of (self identified) koreans […]