Summer is done. Maybe not calendar wise, but as a practical matter once school is back in session and Labor Day comes to an conclusion, summer is concluded. The sunset is before 7:30 PM and with the recent cold snap the mountains are showing a hints of color to come. I am kind of sad that it’s been such a crazy but odd summer with remote work and the pandemic, but I look forward to autumn.
Just a rainy Saturday…
When you buy insurance, the company sends you a long, detailed, almost incomprehensible description of your policy on thin paper. In very small print.
It's rare for anyone to read it from start to finish...and unheard of for a podcast to read it out loud. But today, we go there. In this episode of Summer School, we take Jacob Goldstein's home insurance policy and delve into each sub-paragraph and bullet point. And we find something surprising: the history of risk, disaster and bad behavior.
Abbie Hoffman was just a protester with something to prove the morning of August 24, 1967. But by the time he’d finished his stunt in the New York Stock Exchange, he and his collaborators were well on their way to becoming media celebrities. They were mocked and admired for the trick they’d played on Wall Street, showering the traders with dollar bills—and it cemented Hoffman’s reputation for a new form of political agitation: guerrilla theater, a form of protest that harnessed absurdity and humor to make a point.
Have you ever called a person on the opposite side of the country, and they say the sun is still up there? Or called down to Florida and found the sun has set? This map shows when the sunset is in Eastern Daylight Savings Time for the center point of every county in America, tonight August 14th.
When a weather station in Death Valley, Calif., registered an astonishing 130 degrees Fahrenheit this week, it got meteorologists' attention.
After all, there's a possibility that this is the highest such temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth — if it's for real.
One player is chosen as "It". The "It" player, with closed eyes, tries to find and tag any one of the other players, relying on hearing to find someone to tag. The player who is "It" shouts "Marco" and the other players must all respond by shouting "Polo", which the "It" player uses to try to find them. If a player is tagged, then that player becomes "It". If "It" suspects that a player has left the pool, they can shout "Fish out of water!" and the player who is out of the pool becomes the new "It".