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What Jeff Learned Today: Buenos Aires Is Running Out of Coins
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What Jeff Learned Today. Saturday, February 7, 2009. Buenos Aires Is Running Out of Coins. Apparently the public transit system in Buenos Aires only takes coins, so people have been hoarding them (I'm talking warehouses full of barrels of coins) to keep them out of circulation, so that they can sell them at a premium. When the government made it illegal to sell coins for more than they're worth, people started selling the coins in a package with outrageously priced cookies and biscuits. The Award of Best...
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What Jeff Learned Today: Millions of Kenyans Are on the Brink of Starvation
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What Jeff Learned Today. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Millions of Kenyans Are on the Brink of Starvation. Have we become totally numb to hunger in Africa? The Red Cross Red Crescent is telling the world that as many as 10 million people in Kenya are on the brink of starvation and there's practically no mention of it in the world's news. A friend of mine sent me some g-chat messages from Nairobi today saying that even there, in the country's modern(ish) capital city,. This time, short supply of everything.
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What Jeff Learned Today: Wikipedia's Days May Be Numbered
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What Jeff Learned Today. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Wikipedia's Days May Be Numbered. Is Wikipedia the future of journalism - where anyone can edit the content and by sheer force of numbers and peer pressure, the truth wins out at least as often as it does in mainstream media sources? Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman. This confluence of circumstances could render Wikipedia an online ghost town, Goldman says. It's clear that citizen journalism will become more and more important as new...
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What Jeff Learned Today: Darwin and Lincoln Were Born on the Same Day
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What Jeff Learned Today. Thursday, February 12, 2009. Darwin and Lincoln Were Born on the Same Day. Nobody alive on Feb. 12, 1809 could have known what was going on around them that day as these two influential men were born some 3,980 miles apart in Shrewsbury, England and on Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky, USA. They would both be 200 today. I posted an interesting faux interview. Here's the C-SPAN coverage. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Voices from the F...
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What Jeff Learned Today: Darwin Once Considered Becoming a Priest
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What Jeff Learned Today. Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Darwin Once Considered Becoming a Priest. Has done a great fictitious interview. With Charles Darwin to celebrate his 200th birthday tomorrow. The questions are all made up, but Darwin's responses are all direct quotes from various sources. I read with care Pearson on the creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the. During which Darwin first began to hone his powe...
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What Jeff Learned Today: Water Expands 9% When It Freezes
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What Jeff Learned Today. Sunday, February 8, 2009. Water Expands 9% When It Freezes. And this is what is opening the Grand Canyon wider and wider at the top. In the winter, water seeps into cracks along the top rim and then freezes at night. As the water expands when freezing, it tears the cracks wider and wider until chunks of rock fall down into the canyon below. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. What Jeff Has Learned. Mr Rogers Been Jazzed Up.
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What Jeff Learned Today: March 2009
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What Jeff Learned Today. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. It's Square Root Day. Sort of like a comet, it only comes around several times a century (ok 9, or 10 this time, since the next century mark will end in "100"). Enjoy it while it lasts. You might not live to see that many more:. Props to NPR, as usual, for raising this important bit of information on Morning Edition. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. What Jeff Has Learned. Its Square Root Day.
