Beneath L.A. is collecting stories of little known factoids of Los Angeles history from floating casinos and dead amusement parks to war paranoia.
Month: June 2003
The Invisible Adjunct
The Invisible Adjunct is required blog reading for every academic and student. Your view through the academic looking-glass…
The price of space
Forwarding from Boing Boing…
This morning on The Current, a CBC radio show, Bob MacDonald (the CBC’s science commentator and host of the brilliant show Quirks and Quarks), was asked to justify the expense of the space program. Among other things, he said:
“It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it”