A fantastical short by Russ Etheridge influenced by Hindu mythology. To wit:
A woman secretly watches her crush from across the factory floor. The moon disappears. Things start to fall apart.
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Seeing Red
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Mario and Fafa on the famous pan-applicable monomyth by American mythologist Joseph Campbell which explains, among other things, why Happy Gilmore was a better movie than Jack and Jill.
But you knew that.
Hat tip to Niall who sez:
Should be shown in all schools if you ask me …
Kids, the earth is not flat, (and other wrongheadedness set right) by the nice people at Minute Physics.
The Ostrich
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Mick Liffey, editor of Historyhub.ie, writes:
Given the week that’s in it your readers might be interested in a historyhub.ie podcast by UCD School of History and Archives lecturer Dr Elva Johnston entitled ‘Saint Patrick: The Historical Man and the Popular Myth.
In the podcast Elva argues that:
‘Saint Patrick has been a figure of legend for over one and a half thousand years and the legend is so powerful that the real man has become lost….The real Patrick was a figure of controversy in Britain rather than the perfect saint which is depicted in the legend. One reason for this is that Patrick tells us that at the age of 15 he committed a sin and as he says this was a sin that was committed in ‘a single hour in a single day’ – cue a lot of speculation as to the nature of Patrick’s sin. He tells this sin to his best friend and his best friend shatters Patrick’s confidentiality and makes it widely known among the hierarchy of the British church. As a result of this, British churchmen…seem to have rejected his wish to become a missionary in Ireland with their official sanction. Despite the fact that he is rejected by the British hierarchy he does go to Ireland as a bishop…probably a self-proclaimed bishop and he certainly was not made a bishop by the Pope as the later Irish legend tells us…’
Download the podcast here.
Summarily debunked by C.G.P. Grey.
He of the excellent Primary Elections Explained.
Some you may know, some you may not.
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Laura Helmuth at the Smithsonian debunks ten commonly touted ‘facts’ about the human brain. For example:
We use only 10 percent of our brains.
So what’s the other 90% for? Packaging?
It’s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).
Who said that? Is this my semolina?
We have five senses.
Pfft. And the rest.
Brains are like computers.
No. We think different™.
We know what will make us happy.
We haven’t a frickin’ clue.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
‘Theory’ from Uranus. But you knew that.
READ ON: Top Ten Myths About the Brain (Smithsonian Mag)