[Kzyxtalk] All will be revealed.

[Marco McClean]

All will be revealed.

/"What? says Toby, I thought it was Gert Schwankfelder. He put down his 
fiddle and took a good look at me. Himmel! he says. I have hit the wrong 
boy. It is not the new boy. Why are you not the new boy? Why are you not 
Gert Schwankfelder!" -Rudyard Kipling/

The recording of last night's (2018-02-09) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is ready to download for free and enjoy at 
any time of the day or night, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

*You don't have to even go there, though, if you don't want to. Thanks 
to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost you can listen to the show with one 
click, or download it and keep it with two:
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/all-will-be-revealed.mp3

But besides that, as usual also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com 
you'll find a fresh batch of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
nonetheless worthwhile items I set aside for you while putting the show 
together, things that wouldn't quite work on the radio. Such as:

An illustrated TED talk about the world as Dollar Street. They give you 
a link to the interactive website of the project the scientist talks 
about, so you can find out things for yourself. I found out that very 
rich people are shy about publishing pictures of their illegal pets.
https://boingboing.net/2018/02/08/find-out-where-you-fit-on-the.html

A fascinating montage of countless vacationers' unwittingly perfectly 
duplicated vacations.
https://laughingsquid.com/instravel-tourist-selfies/

How we get marbles from recycled glass. Notice that there are people 
whose career is to watch rivers of marbles pour past in a slot and pluck 
out the ones that aren't good enough. That might be okay work if there's 
music playing, and if it's not just one kind of music but all different 
kinds at random. Except there isn't; there's just the din of the 
hazardous machinery and the glass dust in your eyes and nose and mouth 
and ears and lungs, and the searing heat of the furnaces, day after day, 
night after night, until you want to scream, but that won't help, 
they'll just demote you to marble wheelbarrow duty. This is what's 
really happening when people bitch about China stealing American jobs. 
Do you want your shiny marbles or don't you. You do? Here's your 
marbles, friend.
https://laughingsquid.com/how-marbles-are-made/

Seven years of the eleven-year solar cycle, to put things in 
perspective. That orange thing there is almost 900,000 miles across 
(1,300,000 planet Earths could fit inside of it), and it's been there, 
doing what you see it doing, for four-and-a-half billion years. It's one 
of 100,000,000,000+ stars in just one of 100,000,000,000+ galaxies in 
only one of a potentially infinite number of universes.
https://theawesomer.com/7-year-solar-time-lapse/464933/

So, our sun, the heating system. And here's how we move around and with 
that sun, regardless of where we work, or which teevee shouter appeals 
to our sense of authority or mob oneness, or which imaginary friend in 
the childish part of our brain we wish our wishes of, or whether we wash 
our hair every day or only once a week or never, or become a vegehoovian 
or a Republican or get an abortion or a headache or fall off our roller 
skates or learn to play the flute. This is the best graphic description 
of our motion through the universe that I have ever seen (20 min.):
https://tinyurl.com/RealMotionOfEarthThroughSpace

--
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org