WWI—Animated Maps
The Beeb has an animated "front line" Western Front feature. Its only weakness is that it is antiseptic, which that war was definitely not.
X-Men
Tales of the X-15.
XX1st Century Kama Sutra
New positions for you and your faithful companion.
Yawning As Social Behavior
In other words, yawns are contagious.
Yay!
A new story by Roddy Doyle. 'Nuff said—except that the "f-bomb" is dropped in the second graf. Of course, I already said it's by Roddy Doyle.
Yeah!
Bagheera, uncharacteristically agrees with the tabby. "You guys are pathetic."
Years Ago in Germany
"In [Daniel Kehlmann's] first novel translated into English, the 31-year-old literary wunderkind's breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential work follows the actual lives, careers and eventual intersection of two of Germany's brightest scientists: explorer, geographer and naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the astronomer and aptly crowned 'prince of mathematicians' Carl Friedrich Gauss."
Yes There Are So Stupid Questions
Asking good questions is a skill that can be taught—and should be.
Yes, We Will Have No Bananas?
As a member of the Park Slope Food Coop, I've been seeing signs warning of an international organic banana shortage for months now, but I assumed it was just a seasonal fluctuation, coupled with last year's brutal hurricane season. The New Scientist claims it may be a genetic apocalypse.
Yesterday's Eccentric; Tomorrow's Visionary?
Greg Stepanich ponders the 25th anniversary of Glenn Gould's death, commenting that "1982 was an unpropitious year to die for a man who found such a great creative outlet in technology."