Daily Archives: May 26, 2011

I Plank, Therefore I Am

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                . If you don’t know what planking is, it’s where you have somebody take a picture of you lying, typically face down, rigid as a board, in an unexpected place. You then post it on the Internet. In the above photo, for … Continue reading

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Ocean Fail vs. Space Fail: Is America the New China (Circa 1492)?

Speculating about counterfactuals is always dicey, but historians have long noted that, over the past 600 years, the course of human events might well have played out starkly different if China, in the 1400s, had not been so isolationist and uninterested in ocean … Continue reading

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