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Pilsner ice-hockey war: players vs fans
Core fans are a great net asset and shouldn't be reeducated Pilsen has top teams both in soccer and ice-hockey. In the recent decade, FC Viktoria…
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A pro- vs anti-LGBT clash, a small town edition
On Saturday, Pilsen Pride took place in Pilsen. It's funny to see these marches addressing "global questions and movements" in the str…
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Anti-quantum zealot T-shirts, sweatshirts, mug
On April 1st , armchair physicist and anti-quantum zealot Matt Leifer wrote a blog post named Luboš Motl is right whose most valuable part was the f…
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Swiss voters chose to keep nuclear power plants
I generally think that frequent referendums aren't a good way to organize societies – or at least nations such as mine – because I do think that …
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Boston landfills
Anthony Watts writes about the artificial land created in Boston. It's a topic that I have always found amazing, so I can't resist to write …
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Czechia: record cold temperature
Figure 1: The Cathedral of Saint Vitus in 1887. The construction started in 1344 and ended in 1929. ;-) On Wednesday, we did a cool guided tour to …
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Distance matters: Facebook contacts have a scale-invariant spectrum
The physics arXiv blog has brought our attention to a paper that seems pretty interesting to me: Goldenberg, Levy: Distance Is Not Dead: Social Int…
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Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
The reason behind the recent pause on this blog was a trip to Villeneuve-sur-Yonne in Bourgogne, i.e. to the French countryside. Some presentations …
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Make your smartphone "hologram"
A proper hologram – as invented by Dennis Gábor – uses the interference of light waves, depends on the exact knowledge of the wavelength, and complet…
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All Souls' Day
It's All Souls' Day today (yesterday, we had All Saints' Day). I am just learning that it's a mostly Catholic event – but one that p…
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Psychological prose of doppelgängers
Prove that your English is better than that of your humble correspondent enhanced by online dictionaries and search engines ;-) I have actually trans…
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Larry Summers wants to ban $100 bills
The former president of Harvard (from "my years" over there) Larry Summers wants to ban all banknotes that are worth more than $50 in all …
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You may still buy Matt Taylor's shirt
Matt Taylor's shirt has instantly become one of the modern symbols of the fight between science, achievements, freedom, dedication to one's w…
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Moronic bureaucracy
One of the main things that I hate about the academic sector is its completely uncontrollable bureaucracy. There are dozens of examples every month. …
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Friendship: dog and dolphin
An emotional video for Monday. A dog and a dolphin in Croatia are the heroes. By Jelena of Croatia, peugeot255.
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Shoveling snow may be fun
We have lots and lots of snow in Central Europe. Meanwhile, as Roy Spencer reports from the very place, Cancún in Mexico experiences the Gore Effect…
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Lost while mushroom hunting
In the afternoon, we went mushroom hunting to the forests near Obora u Kaznějova , 10 miles North of Pilsen. A small abstract of our findings. Once w…
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A pro- vs anti-LGBT clash, a small town edition
On Saturday, Pilsen Pride took place in Pilsen. It's funny to see these marches addressing "global questions and movements" in the str…
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An incredible racist restaurant in New Orleans
I received a link to this article in The Washington Times (right-wing) Restaurant charged white customers more to combat ‘racial wealth disparity’ . …
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