The Olympics, Logical Fallacies, The Apostrophe, etc.
In which I can't wait to take a stroll down Steve Albini Way.
🥇 Six olympiads “described the delicate mechanics behind their chosen event,” including skateboarding, rowing and high jump.
🥉 Olympic Prizes: how did we get to three medals? “Olympic athletes strive to win gold, silver and bronze medals. But there was a different prize when the games originated in Greece more than 2,700 years ago.”
🔥 Is the Olympic flame real? Nope.
🍌 How to feed the Olympics. “Step one: Get 3 million bananas.”
🏃♂️ Classic piece on the 1904 Olympics, in which athletes drank poison, stole, dodged oncoming traffic and even hitchhiked during a long distance race. Shenanigans!
🤔 Has social media made sightseeing uncool? “We lose sight of what we actually feel and instead start to view ourselves from an outside perspective”
📲 Ten ways to improve your iPhone’s battery life.
🖍️ Why do we see colors that aren’t there? “Has an optical illusion ever prompted you to see colors that weren't actually there? Or have you wondered why the infamous photo of ‘the dress’ was perceived as white and gold by some but blue and black by others?”
💻 David Bowie gave quite the prescient interview on the Internet in 1999. “The potential of what the Internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable.”
🎬 Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking, the two most recent Ghostbusters installments) just announced Saturday Night, an upcoming film “based on the true story of what happened behind the scene in the 90 minutes leading up to broadcast” of the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by George Carlin. The movie opens Oct. 11, 2024, 49 years to the day that episode aired.
🚏 The late, great producer Steve Albini will soon have a road named after him in his native Chicago.
ߴ Does the apostrophe need to be eradicated from the English language? The rules for their use are easy, yet most people don’t seem to know them. There’s an argument they aren’t necessary.
🗣️ Seven ways to spot a bad argument. “I see this one on social media, especially, all the time. It's misrepresenting the argument of the other side to make it seem more ridiculous, and therefore easy to defeat.” Also: any argument on social media is probably a bad one.
✌️ Keep the Hoping Machine running, bubs.
Love,
Luke
