Friday Video - Merle Haggard - A Soldier's Last Letter

This week's song from The Hag is provided in honor of the fallen for Memorial Day.

The mother's prayer:

"Protect all those... who are fighting tonight, and, Dear God, keep America free."

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Friday Video - Merle Haggard - The Fightin' Side of Me

The Troglodyte tribute to The Hag continues with one of my all-time favorite country tunes.



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Life is Beautiful

Here is a classic example of why I like TED. This is more than a fair trade for the nuttery it sometimes propagates.

From the INK Conference in December 2010, image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at this with marvel of how do these instruction sets not make these mistakes as they build what is us? It's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity.

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(HHT: Judd)