Not only is it darker, the climate is much more dry, so their would be fewer clouds. Washington and Oregon might be exceptions, though.

Who’s setting the gain on the mics?

"I'll give you $50 for that ball of frozen water." —Jerry Brown

Interesting. What was the dye intended to be used for? Was it used to stain tissue, like gram staining? I'm curious as to how doctors found out it had a tranquilizing effect on people.

My four times great-grandfather’s musket from the Civil War. He was in the 151st Ohio Volunteers. The musket itself is older and actually dates from the Mexican-American War. The 151st Ohio was given antiquated weapons because they were a garrison regiment.

Hanover College, Mike Pence's alma mater (and mine as well), just issued a statement calling the consequences of the law "an affront to everything that Hanover College stands for as an institution of higher education."

You had me at "fun, high-risk weekend project."

Something else has made me wonder if Dyson Spheres might be impossible to detect. The search for Dyson Spheres involves looking for infrared heat-waste. However, if a civilization is technologically sophisticated enough to enclose an entire star, could they also be technologically sophisticated enough to use energy…

I'll keep that in mind at my rehearsal tonight.

The MFA I just finished at Tisch says otherwise. Enjoy amateur hour.

That's idea I hear tossed around a lot by people who don't actually work in art, or artists who don't think about the how an audience will receive their work (also known as crappy artists). Speaking as a composer and playwright, genera is useful for attracting an audience and giving the audience a idea of what to…

Rock over London; rock on, Chicago!

Damnit, Brian! Get off Kinja and flush the toilet like a functioning adult!

Could my roommate's seeming inability to flush the toilet actually be an investment strategy?

There's a lot of light pollution in that part of the sky where I live and I might have to wait until May until I can get a view that isn't washed out. Is there any guess as to how long this nova will stay bright enough to see?

I think we can all now assume if we're in a hospital and hear "paging Esther Inglis-Arkell to radiology, Esther Inglis-Arkell to radiology," some shit is about to go down.

It's great to have physical supporting evidence. There are accounts of Danish pirates raiding Al-Andalus in 844. The vikings didn't establish a settlement like in England and elsewhere, but there is no reason to think they couldn't have made off with plunder that made its way back to Scandinavia.

In my intro to directing class in undergrad we were told to make use of the eye's tendency to move left to right. For example, if we wanted to show a character making a difficult journey, or achieving the goal of an action that is meeting strong resistance, we were encouraged to have the actors move from stage left to…

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