Favorites

Yes, there are favorites I have from over this last year, whether for content or style or just interesting-ness.

Unionization: (January) Wherein I am completely wrong about Union Station.

Synthococcus Novae: (February) The Space Hippies episode of Star Trek was more insightful than I realized.

Camelot: (March) It wasn't about JFK until Jackie made it so.

Astronaut Corvettes: (April) I hadn't known that most Apollo astronauts had Corvettes.

The Data Wars: (April) There's a tag, too, but this was where I first started thinking there might be a real correspondence between data and what happened in the early 1940s.

Carry On: (May) Not surprisingly, those "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters have a history going back to the last Crisis.

Runaway: (June) Explaining why a Seth McFarland joke isn't funny and, literally,  probably wasn't ever funny.

The Ramones: (July) Why they also indicated the peak of the Awakening.

Antibiotics: (August) Did you know penicillin works by allowing bacteria to divide in half (as they do to reproduce) but then prevents the resulting new bacteria from sealing their shells afterwards? Oh, and it was a long time until it was commercially ready, but a relatively short time from then until it was mass-produced.

Annie:  (August) From finding out that the cartoonist was NOT an FDR fan, quite contrary to the musical.

Research: (August) Is Google the new planning department for the human race?

Trinity: (September) Some times just fly.

Deadline : (September) Something about the last minute rush for such an important thing - of so much happening that people at these high levels still sound human.

1968: (October) This came out well, even though it was a one-night special even for a Grid entry.

The Force Awakens: (November) A fun analysis where some prediction turned out as expected.

1990: (December)  Because it finishes up The Grid (I've been working on that for a long time) and also because of an insight about the Web being successful because it was text.

Start doing this and you'll find others to like. There are a few others near the start of April, for example...but enough. Bad enough having a clip show post, anyway.