Saturday, February 15, 2014

Valentine Weekend Reads

Math Explains Likely Longshots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery (excerpt) Scientific American

It's Not the Moon, It's Nevada   Smithsonian.   Nuclear test sites shown on satellite photo

As American as Peanut Butter  Pacific Standard

Two Churches, Different Financial Trajectories,  Philadelphia Inquirer.   LDS compared to Catholic Church

Making Money: The Ice Man  New Yorker.  Olympia ice surfacing machines are not Zambonis.

A curling twofur:  Why Curling Ice is Different Than Other Ice  Smithsonian and Curling 101: Where do stones come from   Colorado Springs Gazette

Work It  Jacobin.  About the dignity of work, or often lack thereof

Citius, Altius, Frigidiores  Brian Phillips on skeleton and other Olympic events as suicide attempts due to winter's seeming endlessness.

Awesome America: Photos that show a land's majesty  Washington Post on the U.S. Interior Department Instagram account.  They also do Twitter and Facebook.

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