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Flickr: Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois by Dizzy Atmosphere The Cubby Bear, across the street from Wrigley Field, 1060 West Addison St. Chicago USA Welcome to the friendly confines, Yashica T4, Ilford FP4 film Photograph taken 1994

Flickr: Russian Hill, San Francisco

Russian Hill, San Francisco by Dizzy Atmosphere Chrysler Convertible Taylor Street, Russian Hill district, San Francisco 1990

Flickr: AT&T Park site, San Franciso

AT&T Park site, San Franciso by Dizzy Atmosphere San Francisco Giants ballpark AT&T Park under construction, (then called PacBell Park.) 3rd and King street, San Francisco 1999

Flickr: 1989 World Series Baseball, Game 3, Candlestick Park, San Francisco

1989 World Series Baseball, Game 3, Candlestick Park, San Francisco by Dizzy Atmosphere Photograph taken October 17, 1989 just 2 or 3 minutes after a 7.1 earthquake. Baseball fans in attendance at this point were still standing and looking around and surveying the damage. World Series Game 3 between the Giants and Athletics was not […]

Flickr: Island Auto Movie, Alameda, California

Island Auto Movie, Alameda, California by Dizzy Atmosphere Rolliecord V, Kodak Plus-X film photograph taken 1983

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Why They Crowned Mary Margaret

Why They Crowned Mary Margaret Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Hunter Pence’s “Triple Double”

Hunter Pence’s “Triple Double” “As you might imagine, there is a lot of physics contained in this play, and I want to explore some of it in this article.”

Blog: Sabermetric Research: Yet another r vs. r-squared explanation

Yet another r vs. r-squared explanation Phil Birnbaum, Sabermetric Research

YouTube: RSA Shorts – The Power of Quiet

RSA Shorts – The Power of Quiet theRSAorg

How a Videogame God Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career

How a Videogame God Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career “Imagine carrying a radioactive baby in a pitch black environment, your baby would act as a torch. Rocking the baby intensifies the glow etc.”

Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains

Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains “If you eat only raw food, there are not enough hours in the day to get enough calories to build such a large brain,” says Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil who is co-author of the report. “We can […]

The Story behind the Cover of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’

The Story behind the Cover of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’

The Planning Fallacy

The Planning Fallacy “The problem is almost always oversimplification. The world is a complicated place full of random chaos and your brain works by grouping clusters of that chaos into an easier to understand model. In my model of the morning, there were only a few things going on. “

Mop-up Duty | Jonah Keri

Mop-up Duty | Jonah Keri “Phil Coke’s path to the World Series with the Tigers was full of late nights, fast food, and doing whatever it took to pay the bills.”

Economists design their dream candidate. But could he ever get elected?

Economists design their dream candidate. But could he ever get elected?

YouTube: Bill Hicks + George Carlin: The Big Electron

Bill Hicks + George Carlin: The Big Electron melodysheep

Barack Obama: Corporatist Collectivist (Part I of IV)

Barack Obama: Corporatist Collectivist (Part I of IV) “A more accurate description of Obama, however – and of the Democratic party under his leadership – is that it is collectivist, just as socialists are; but that this collectivism takes the form of corporatism.”

Blog: Ben Casnocha: You Learn From People Who Mostly Agree With You

You Learn From People Who Mostly Agree With You Ben Casnocha, Ben Casnocha

When our interpretations differ…

When our interpretations differ… “In some cases, folks are so committed to their particular views on these issues they seem incapable of making a distinction between the Bible itself and their interpretation of it, and so any critique of that interpretation is seen as a critique of Scripture itself!”

The American Scholar: Mortify Our Wolves – Christian Wiman

The American Scholar: Mortify Our Wolves – Christian Wiman “The point is that he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering…But if you find that you cannot believe in God, then do not worry yourself with it. No one can say what […]