Rad Geek People's Daily

Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 11 March 2017 @ 7am

Shared Article from AL.com

ICE raids have 'blown up' in Alabama since Trump immigration or…

ICE agents are conducting raids and detaining undocumented immigrants in Alabama at a higher rate than elsewhere in the Deep South.

al.com

Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 10 March 2017 @ 6am / revised 6am

Is Herodotus of Halicarnassus a Greek historian of the Persian Wars, or a Persian historian of the Greek Wars, or a Turkish historian of the Graeco-Persian Wars, or something else? Show your work.

Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 3 March 2017 @ 7am / revised 7am

This is a triumph of the human spirit and of global civilization.

Shared Article from Can You Actually

Here's What Happens When You Light 10,000 Sparklers Packed Into …

I imagine this video is going to be cathartic for some of you who have always wondered what would happen if you lit a bunch of sparklers at one time. …

canyouactually.com

Article posted 1 March 2017 posted 6pm / revised 6am 10 March 2017

Look, hate all you want on commercial advertising,^[1] but if you think that there’s no productive economic function served by alerting me — alerting me through social media advertising, on Zuckerworld, no less — to the fact that I can easily get HEB to ship me this in Alabama from their online store, then I’m sorry, you’re wrong about that. You have no idea how much happier this made my morning.

^[1]No, really, it’s fine, go ahead. There’s been no more thoroughly and utterly mainstream a pastime in American intellectual life for the last 70-odd years; don’t worry, you’re on pretty safe ground here.↩