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Five of Spades: Calorimeter for Atlas (in the key of E)
When Titans weren’t successful in a coup, ‘Twas Atlas who was made to hold up Heaven. Now let’s assume the heavens weighed a tonne, How much did Atlas burn to hold that weight? Let’s say he lifts a...
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Queen of Spades: Les Éléments
Ceci est en quelque sorte une traduction de “The Elements” de Tom Lehrer, à chanter sur l’air de “Je ne suis pas bien portant” de Gaston Ouvrard. Je cherche quelqu’un qui pourrait la chanter, je chante...
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V Day’s over, because it has to be.
Isn’t it though? The title of this post is an homage to Jonathan Coulton’s song ‘Summer’s Over‘, about things (or in his case, Things) ending because they have to. As Valentine’s Day was ending in my...
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See Their Fuss, Memorising: A Mnemonic for German Articles, With Gender and Case
In German the nouns have three categories, referred to as ‘genders’ but that’s just linguistics. While often sex tells a word’s gender with ease, to learn all the rest, I present some heuristics. Each...
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