Swans on Tea

Metacognitive Miscalibration, or wicked problems and the desire to learn, and other reasons misinformed people think they are well-informed.
Why are the unintelligent or uninformed so arrogantly confident while the intelligent and well informed so often unsure and apprehensive? There is something very human to thinking you know more than you really do about a subject [...]

Bad Weather Makes for a Long Day
Changes in mass distribution affect the earth’s rotation rate. A little.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., occasionally adds a “leap second” to the atomic clocks used to standardize time. The last such update took place on January 1, 2006.
Arrg. And so do all [...]

How to make your own Pruno
Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup
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[Even though] it tastes so putrid that even hardened prisoners gulp it down while holding their noses, they’ll go to incredible lengths to make it