The solipsism problem, also called the problem of other minds, lurks at the heart of science, philosophy, religion, the arts and the human condition
Year: 2020
Learn How to Play Chess Free Online: Tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond | Open Culture
To get started, Chess.com has produced “Everything You Need to Know About Chess,” a series of Youtube videos “designed to give every aspiring chess player the ‘one chess lesson of their life’ if they were only to get one.” Watch them, or explore these web-based tutorials. And even if you don’t have a chess set of your own, you can get started playing immediately thereafter: create an account at Chess.com and you can play against the computer or real players around the world matched to your skill level, all for free.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/learn-how-to-play-chess-free-online.html
A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Straightforward English http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/o8usV5t6LGE/a-free-700-page-chess-manual.html
A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Straightforward English
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/o8usV5t6LGE/a-free-700-page-chess-manual.html
The D-I-Y Origins of Night of the Living Dead | JSTOR Daily
Night of the Living Dead became a slow-burning sensation, making back its budget a couple hundred times over at drive-ins, grindhouses, and matinee showings. Romero was credited with not only delivering an unexpected hit, but a searing social commentary that redefined an entire genre. Night of the Living Dead was a success, in every possible sense of the word.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-d-i-y-origins-of-night-of-the-living-dead/
Time Traveler: When Did New Words Appear? | Grammar Girl
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/time-traveler-when-did-new-words-appear
Last week, Merriam-Webster launched a new tool on its website called Time Traveler that lets you explore words by year.
JS Bach: where to start with his music | JS Bach | The Guardian
‘The immortal god of harmony”: that’s what Beethoven, no less, called Johann Sebastian Bach. “Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder,” is how Schumann put it, and Bach’s music continues to inspire a feeling of reverence and love that borders on spirituality, in atheists and believers alike. An astonishingly productive composer, Bach perfected all the existing musical forms of the baroque period and took the use of harmony to a new level, setting out parameters that most of the western musical tradition has been working within ever since.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/26/js-bach-where-to-start-with-his-music
Fuck You, I’m Voting | Whatever
"Fuck you, I’m voting. You literally could not stop me this year. I have always voted — always took for granted I could vote — but this year above all I will go out of my way to get it done. You should, too."
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/13/fuck-you-im-voting/
The CDs You Burned Are Going Bad: Here’s What You Need to Do
Estimates on the lifespan of CD- and DVD-Rs vary wildly, from between two and 100 years. In 2004, the U.S. Library of Congress sponsored a study that estimated the shelf life of recordable discs available at that time. It simulated the aging of CD- and DVD-Rs stored in perfect environmental conditions (that is, a room temperature of 50 percent humidity with no sunlight, and no rough handling).
The study concluded that most recordable discs stored in ideal conditions would last at least 30 years, but the results varied wildly by brand. However, it also stated that “discs exposed to more severe conditions of temperature and humidity would be expected to experience a shorter life.”
https://www.howtogeek.com/682807/the-cds-you-burned-are-going-bad-heres-what-you-need-to-do/
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