Monday, December 08, 2025

Links from 2013

 Opinion, Fact Schoolchildren can make a distinction that sometimes eludes those with advanced degrees

Is Confidence Better Than Correctness?  

Jason Collins: "I'm a Basketball Player." My little sendup of an already obscure player coming out in 2013 is even more distant now.  It continues to be the case that few male professional athletes are gay, while very high percentages of female professionals are lesbians.

Teaching the Opposite Lesson. I still think of this sometimes. 

World's Largest  Two of the photos are unavailable, but the Moxie Bottle House is now in Union, ME - we visited it on our puffin trip this summer, and not only the giant Milk Bottle but lots of other roadside architecture is at this wonderful site.

 


2 comments:

Christopher B said...

Iowa has at least a couple more of those statues in addition to Albert

Largest Bullhead near my hometown

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/4339

Largest strawberry in Strawberry Point naturally

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/4035

james said...

The non-wikipedia links seem to be broken on the World's Largest post. If you like strange buildings, there's the pickle-barrel house built for and in honor of the cartoonist Donahey.