Author Archives: anewc2

Placebo Effect

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

I have wondered about this for a long time.

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Trip Planning Technology

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/15921842/how-to-plan-a-vacation-travel-apps-flight-deals-abroad

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Kavanaugh’s lies

Posted on 2018 October 1 by anewc2

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/10/brett-kavanaughs-lies-perjury-nomination-killed.html

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Is Earth’s magnetic field flipping? Maybe.

Posted on 2018 August 13 by anewc2

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5347/to-understand-magnetism-is-to-understand-how-the-universe-and-earth-came-to-be Thanks to Naked Capitalism for the link.

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Did Robert E. Lee bring any slaves with him to the field during the Civil War?

Posted on 2018 July 6 by anewc2

Yes and no. from https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lee_Robert_E_and_Slavery: Yes, early in the war: “in a letter to his brother Charles Carter Lee, dated March 14, 1862, he praised the Confederacy as ‘the noble cause we are engaged in,’ and kept two of the … Continue reading →

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Half a billion years of continental drift

Posted on 2018 June 14 by anewc2

https://kottke.org/18/06/how-the-earths-continents-will-look-250-million-years-from-now

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Moving from Mac to Unix

Posted on 2018 March 6 by anewc2

http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ One developers story. His first step is at elementary.io

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Modern statistics books

Posted on 2018 February 23 by anewc2

https://qz.com/1206229/this-is-the-best-book-for-learning-modern-statistics-its-free/

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Tubular Bells

Posted on 2018 February 2 by anewc2
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Cemetery research

Posted on 2017 December 24 by anewc2

Some good tips and links here. https://lisalouisecooke.com/2017/12/20/cemetery-research-for-genealogy/

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