These are old topics, but another amusing Healthcare Triage video.
Author: fish1964
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If everyone understood this…
A nice one from Dave Winer:
Reality can be so complex that equally valid observations from differing perspectives can appear to be contradictory.
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Where Is Everybody?
Via Wait But Why, One of the best descriptions of the Fermi Paradox I’ve read.
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It’s Not Just Me…
I’m more into it this year, but the soccer has been fun to watch, in a historically unusual way. Via the Economist, “World Cup football isn’t normally this exciting”:
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Now That is Dreamland
An amazing first game for the US and a classic line after the first goal:
The Yanks ahead! Incredibly! Within seconds! Now that is dreamland.
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World Cup Fever
Brooklyn is going crazy with this World Cup. Of course it’s a very international place. Our pastry shop next door is connected to a French restaurant and they are bringing in a huge screen a projector to watch all games. Seems like every place in our neighborhood is doing something like that.
And right by my office is this:
That is the arch under the Manhattan Bridge. I may watch US/Ghana there.
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John Oliver on FIFA
I have yet to watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver because it’s on too damn late, but pretty much every week I watch a video from it.
Some blog sites are considered “long form” because they write longer articles that not everyone will read. This is long form comedy. He takes a topic and does over 10 minutes on it.
Anyway, another hilarious episode:
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