Friday, March 16, 2018

Sundries

-- Charles Hill drops some shade on the idea of minor league baseball's adaptation of a rule starting all extra innings with a runner on second base. He is more measured than I am; my immediate response was that of Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes.

-- Ben Franklin had some advice on good ways to live life as a rational, reasonable member of society. It was pretty good in 1726 and it's pretty good today, too.

-- Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder offers a brief outline of Stephen Hawking's contributions to physics.

-- Tomorrow the Chicago Plumber's Union will dye the Chicago River green as a way of marking St. Patrick's Day. This item notes a way in which the famous backwards-flowing river might be considered an even better symbol of things Paddy actually taught.

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