Bill Maher on YouTube Censorship

 A brief clip.

More Koehne

 Forty Reasons to be Cheerful

Plus, a composer new to me, Georg Pelēcis Concertino Bianco

Their mother

 My aunt (and her husband) adopted a young boy when he was orphaned. A few years later she adopted seven more children from one family when they were orphaned.

She was their mother.

Elegant

 

Portuguese Baroque

 The Mass in G by Seixas.

Traffic Interchanges Compared

 How innovative designs for crossing streams of traffic can improve the flow. Different patterns for different volumes. 6 minutes. Fascinating. 

24/7

 Why the SAT was ditched.

Nyman: Concerto for Flute and Strings

 Some themes repackaged. Here.

Boat lifts

 We saw the marine railway in Ontario, which looks a bit like the Russian lift in this thread.

Beggar thy neighbor: California schools and math

 Must stop those Asian students from excelling! Here.

Pedro Domingos

 

Invisible hand: things that are done for private benefit but turn out to be for the public good. Invisible foot: things that are done for the public good but turn out to be for private benefit.

Hundred Year Old Computer for Fourier Analysis

 This is amazing. 23 minutes. 

Count the votes

 

An Onderdonk painting

 I just found it, and liked it. Julian Onderdonk, 1921

McWhorter on cops

 There are problems with American cops killing people, but they are not essentially racial. Here.

Ginning up riots

 You need to click on the photo to see what CBS cropped out.  There is no innocent explanation for this, CBS is ginning up riots. 

Compare and Contrast: Afghanistan coverage

 A thread of side by side screenshots.