I feel like I've learned and forgotten it 10 times in my life. I'm always surprised to read it, and then say, "oh, yeah. I remember that."

I was only half paying attention to the news today, but as near as I can tell, Samuel L. Jackson is now the pope?

Cheekface - You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Quiz: Is this great cheekface song from three weeks ago, three years ago, or three decades ago?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1Q...

About MURR About the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), including our mission and vision

I've thought it funny that no one ever protests the Mizzou Research Reactor.

It's next to to the arena (It has good BB parking) and Ag Research, and looks like an evil building from Stranger Things. It's famously for medical research, but that's what you would say... www.murr.missouri.edu/about/

Hard to believe that one of those things was an easy-to-access fax machine

The Ensh*ttificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Brilliant video from a Norwegian policy group fighting how everything is adding monthly subscriptions.

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low - Carbon Brief The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in...

If you wanted some good news, coal emissions in the UK under King Charles are now down to the level of Queen Elizabeth...No, the other one. A modern economy can transition away from fossil fuels, and it's happening faster than we expected (but not fast enough).

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

That's like 15% of total US student enrollment in those two states. So, you're telling me we should try to fast-track our computer science search, while there's no competition for, like 90% of the candidates?

No one who speaks german can be an evil man!

Can we write a paper together titled:
"Higher Education as loss leader: How a real estate company, a hospital and a minor league sports franchise gets customers in the door"

UHSP is multiple buildings in a prime location in the Central West End, right next to WashU's medical campus (and Barnes-Jewish Hospital). I wouldn't be surprised if at least part of WashU's thinking is about real estate.

Sure, the Olympic gold medal hockey game was amazing, but did you hear the fantastic organist?

Oddly, another team got the same effect with Phillip Glass.

Full EJAE “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)” 이재 슈퍼볼 리퀴드 I.V.(Liquid I.V.) 광고 YouTube video by 사자보이즈갤러리

It's a music video that's really a commercial...or the other way.
Still, a great cover of a great song.
Also, drink some water, with some electrolytes if you'd like.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjO...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" Performed by Coco Jones at Super Bowl LX YouTube video by NFL

Coco Jones incredibly singing, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.” Sorry that you didn’t get to see it on the TV broadcast

youtu.be/kcMMBhIY5Zw?...

Your premise is fjordulent.
Norway is the center of the ski jump scandal.
Of course, they hate inflation, too.

Tenure is one way we recruit STEM PhDs who can make way more money in industry. Stability and Flexibility, even at a small school. One candidate said, "Truman won't be bougth by Elon Musk." Is there any good research about how much higher salaries would need to be, or is this a Natural Experiment?

Might still be the second best use of "Verisimilitude" in popular culture (sorry that you lose to Spider-Man).

4th Sunday After the Epiphany - February 1, 2026 YouTube video by Trinity-Kirksville Worship

Congregational singing of Heidi Ann Wilson's "Hold on," followed by the Beatitudes, today's gospel reading:
www.youtube.com/live/iTh-V0q...

BeetleJuice (1988) - Day-O (Banana Boat Song) #1080p YouTube video by Musicalman 2012

One of the great comedic pieces of cinema featuring a great earworm and a great Catherine O'Hara.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPi...

Wooing The Princess - The Court Jester 1955 YouTube video by Casgo

She slays in The Court Jester (1955), totally keeping up with Danny Kaye when she's supposed to just be "Hot Princess #2".
youtu.be/Lgn9VT7ozus?...

AI MV | "World Police" Anthem YouTube video by New China TV

Xinhua drops a banger of a remarkably well-made AI slop video by the Chinese State-controlled media interspersed with actual quotes by US officials. Super-effective. The thumbnail shows the perfectly timed "caw" at 0:55.

youtube.com/shorts/WeZ_W...

It might even save their resources by simplifying the process of giving aid to people who were going to get it anyway

This seems worrying.
Also, NPR is still doing investigative journalism, so that's cool that someone is.

I talk in class about the matrix mathematics of map projections, and have used Greenland as a silly example for 20 years. It was a whole different thing on Friday.

björk: declare Independence YouTube video by björk

FYI: Bjork had a banger about Greenland about 20 years ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5x...

I'm surprised so many STEM fields hit that loan threshold. We tend to tell students, especially CS students, that our graduate programs won't require major loans.

Is there something I'm missing about that?

The Korean Netflix "Bon Appétit, Your Majesty" is pretty fun and not very stressful. Iron Chef meets Outlander

Maybe you should make a list of the top 13 rage-bait lists

Fluoride in drinking water does not negatively affect cognitive ability — and may actually provide benefit, study finds | CNN The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to community drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny in the United States over questions about whether the benefits outweigh the potential ri...

In other news, low-dose floride is generally good for you.

“Imagine testing some new drug for heart disease and the recommended dosage is 100 milligrams, and then your study compares people who get a million milligrams to people who get half a million milligrams..."

www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/h...