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On perpetual motion machines (and where to find them).
The invention of a perpetual motion machine will revolutionize the world, and Dr. Harvey Trussbloom has done it! Well, perhaps he didn’t invent it, but he found it. Or, no, not quite found it, but he knows where it is. Roughly. Although perhaps it isn’t entirely accurate to refer to it as a “perpetual motion machine.” …
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On elegant sledgehammering.
Here’s a tiny piece of Paul Dunbar’s “An Ante-Bellum Sermon.” You can read the whole poem here , or, if you like listening more than reading, there are a couple renditions up on Youtube. An’ de lan’ shall hyeah his thundah Lak a blas’ from Gab’el’s ho’n. Fu’ de Lawd of hosts is mighty When…
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