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Hey, I got a subscriber, I think!

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I didn't know that was possible! I mean I actually got notified! I guess it's because I've had far too much sleep. Never mind. Another time. Blue moons are ten-a-penny these days, ... Love, Ian. Check this advice:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxheEGl2oM&lc=Ugy4MwnDyQOHm9eNNDN4AaABAg

David Lynch

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David, I'd love to go to a few cinemas to see how different they are. Technically. I just sat down to watch Inland Empire on my laptop and I can't bear it!! And I've seen a 4K movie and I wasn't impressed. Are we just giving up on representation altogether? I think that's a shame. I'd love to go to a few movie shows with you if you're here in England. See  Digital  Representation . Nick Cave - Do You Love Me? Part II This is a fucking war, Hollywood! Subscribe to Lana Del Roi . Subscribe to Del Rey . Manchester Orchestra - The Silence Subscribe to  Manchester Orchestra . For Ursula Augsdörfer - Hey, 'sup! Check the video description. Dr. Campbell: Subscribe to My Nurse . Be careful about those peoplesdeclaration URLs because they may be a scam. I need help with administration. Mail me at admin@peoplesdeclaration.com (and admin@peopledeclaration.co.uk once I have some help). I have asked my old friend Ashley Everington to come and have a coffee with me s

Salmon Jumping in Whatcom Creek at the Maritime Heritage Park in Bellingham

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See  Grant Myers : I think there's a travel company called Harlequin around here somewhere and money shouldn't be a problem.

Pulp - Disco 2000

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Wooow! What a tune, what a dude, what a song! Subscribe to We Love Pulp .

Bulgarian National Children's Choir - The Mountain Has Overturned

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日本ツアー (2007) Arranged by Yuliyan Slabakov. See also  Proleten Vals - song and lyrics by Yuliyan Slabakov | Spotify Subscribe to  lqv4ehul .

Leonard Cohen - Happens to The Heart

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Subscribe to Leonard Cohen . Leonard Cohen Tribute - First We Take Manhattan Subscribe to Backstage Promotions .

Yamma Ensemble - The Song of Solomon/The Song of Songs

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This has subtitles in English. The song is sung in both Hebrew and Arabic and these are subtitled in Roman, Hebrew and Arabic script simultaneously. It's very sad. Subscribe to Yamma Ensemble .

René Rebe on Business Models for Libre Software

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This is interesting. I'm a bit frazzled right now, but if anybody in The Piscine is looking to fund their studies with work on T2 Linux, then contact me and ask me what the hell I'm talking about, unless it's obvious. You can reach me on Twitter  https://twitter.com/IanANGrant66 or Mastadon.  @IanANGrant@mastodon.social . Subscribe to René Rebe .

Larkin Poe - Bad Spell (No drums)

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See  Fleetwood Mac - "The Chain" (Larkin Poe and The Sheepdogs Cover Video) ,  Help Rebuild Lives After Morocco's Earthquake ,  Lana Del Rey - Cry Kill Die  and  ROLI Meets Jason Turk: Using the Seaboard RISE 2 in traditional Irish music . Hopefully we'll get it together enough for me to open that chai shop I talked about with Sarah Murray when we were in Mingora in 1989, just after the  Fall of the Berlin Wall . Wind of Change Loving You on Sunday Morning (Live in Houston, 1980) He's a Woman, She's a Man (Live in Houston, 1980) Subscribe to The Scorpions . Subscribe to Larkin Poe .

ROLI Meets Jason Turk: Using the Seaboard RISE 2 in traditional Irish music

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Hmm. With one of these I could become Musical Saul! Not sure that would be such a good idea though, ...  ROLI Meets Jason Turk: Using the Seaboard RISE 2 in traditional Irish music . Working out what to call this instrument is an interesting exercise! "I feel it's like it's an instrument that should be played in a real life setting rather than just doing a little bit of noodling for something that you're producing," he tells us. "I've been able to use it right from the start to play for 3 hours for a gig and play 50 tunes on it, play 10,000 notes, just to be able to do that and to treat it and expect it to be a real instrument and to be able to perform like that. So, I think it sat better probably in the Trad music circle than I expected." Rescuing people from fishing villages, ...  See  Genesis - Home By The Sea (Live in London March 25, 2022) . Yamma Ensemble - King David Subscribe to Yamma Ensemble . Somehow I don't think they would ever make

Lana Del Rey in Black Lace and Singing About Orphanage Now!

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See  Feeling Schizophrenic Again  (We can't even spell  it! Also this, ... which was my birthday present from those PlayStation64 headbangers in Tecate!  Playstation64 - Pandemonia . See the photo I took of some clouds over the CEART on the night we put on that awful show for the kids,... I saw that dancer driving his car later and I almost winked at him! ♥️💓💕 See  David Lynch's Weather Report June 28, 2022  and  Lee Camp on Some Dog Rescue Operation in Sonoma County . I suspect my wife and daughter are behind this. I lied when I was crying in Tecate. My mum took me to see Godspel when I was little, not Jesus Christ Superstar. Though that was OK too, but I really enjoyed Godspel! See  Help Us To Feed Hungry Women And Children In Yemen : It was a play she took me to, but this is the song: Subscribe to  Patches and Face Paint . Imagining Sana'a I think they were vaxxing little children with AstraZeneca in Mexico That seems to have got the OK from YT for a while. Last time

Rebel Energy

They haven't sent me a bill yet, God alone knows why. This looks like an XR business: https://www.rebelenergy.com/ When you email them you get a ticket number back in your automated response. It's really impressive: Thank you for contacting Rebel Energy Your request (Ticket reference: #60628) has been received and we'll be in contact with you as soon as we can. We aim to respond to all emails as soon as possible, we apologise for any delay in our response time. If you need to add any additional comments to your enquiry, please reply to this email. If you're experiencing a power cut please dial 105 for help or if you have a gas emergency please dial 0800 111 999 for urgent assistance. These are free telephone numbers that are for your Local Distribution Network Operators who are available to help you with an emergency 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you would like further information on the recent Government announcements regarding the Energy Bill Support Scheme and the

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Robot Designer

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 Croatian, ... from Rijeka. Run program!

Feeling Schitzophrenic Again

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See  The Eternal Doorman - Flaming Llamas . Tom Reid is the good guy, I'm the bad guy! See  Rewrite - SciFi Short April 17, 2020 . I still think we're a long way short of what the Guatecas produced in Chiapas!  Chelsea Hotel Room 3 .

Flaming Llamas

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See  Computerphile - bzip2 At Nottingham  and  Paul McCartney Got A New Band . See Happy Valentine's Day Rachel McCarthy  and  Enya - Carribean Blue . See also  Rewrite - SciFi Short April 17, 2020  which explains what is the problem with our love life, .... it's that I can't even spell simultaneous! By the way, Parklife did descend into chaos just after the fireworks. There's a girl down the road who has a boyfriend who works for BT and she says someone tried to steal the aluminium ladder off the top of the van. She shouted out "Are you fucking mad?!" ... and she called the police and I went along to try and rescue the yoga mats from outside the mosque, but the door was slightly ajar and nobody answered my knocks or calls, ... it was raining and they're still outside, ... She has a little dog that looks like a fox! See  Chosen Won - Lacie The Rapper December 23, 2021 .

Paul McCartney Got A New Band

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The Silence Subscribe to Mancheater Orchestra . Daft Punk - Within (Drumless) Reaction Subscribe to Daft Punk .

Computerphile - bzip2 At Nottingham

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You may want to start with the second video, which gives some background of models and whatnot. See  Thanks for BZIP2 . Subscribe to Computerphile .

Elon Musk and His Piles

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I saw something about US$420,000,000 in a pot and he's asking what to do with it. I said "Sit on it" because I don't get enough of what's going on:  Julia Galef Discusses Intellectual Honesty . But  Najam Institute  are desperate and there are these Yemeni children, and children in Morocco, ... See  Help Rebuild Lives After Morocco's Earthquake  and  UK Office for National Statistics Deaths by Vaccination Status Data 2022/2023 . So I am serious. Money looks like it is still a problem. Are we going for Real Burning Man? I don't see any other option. I said I would be burned alive on a fire in full public view, and I meant it. I thought hard about it, and it was a totally conscious decision which I still stand by. If we give up using money I will gladly be burned alive in a real fire, and the BBC and ITN can broadcast it live. See  Lee Camp on Some Dog Rescue Operation in Sonoma County  for the pictures. It may not be just I who burns. This looks fake as all

Lee Camp on Some Dog Rescue Operation in Sonoma County

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This is a more complex thing than just tanning, I think. See  Lee Camp on UK Censorship and Animal Rights  and  Scottish Farmed Salmon Industry . That reminds me that some time after I told my daughter to read William Boyd's  The Blue Afternoon  she told me she had given up fish, ... I assumed she was saying that she'd become vegan, perhaps on account of realising that more of Byron's poetry was more meaningful than she thought, Byron being her pet fish who died. She didn't have a cat, despite my having given my ex wife a thousand pounds to get Helen a kitten before I left for Bolivia. See  The Jaguar Circuit  and  Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club (CCC) UK Bestseller . As to Elon Musk and the Car Workers Unions. Is that why I keep finding car keys? I once asked my daughter if she had learned how to drive yet, and she said very clearly "no." See  Lee Camp on Elon Musk and The UAW . The reason I am posting this is that I thought on the way back do

Julia Galef Discusses Intellectual Honesty

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 I have only heard one and a half minutes of this, but I am sure it's going to be good. Subscribe to  South Park Commons . OK, now after 43 seconds, I am going to say the same of these guys: Subscribe to  Mere Mortals Podcast . And look up how money Musk spent on developing trading software. How much of it is in use and where? And then ask my father to tell you how he knows this Wise scheme is sound, because it looks like pyramid selling to me, and it seems to be an invitation to currency exchange speculation. The reason I am asking is because on my way back from my walk I started to feel bad again. I have just beein into a pharmacy offering combined flu and covid-19 shots to all and sundry, free. They are Pfizer mRNA vaccines, apparently. And I am really wondering about the wisdom of all of this. Is there no way that we can do without money? Because it seems to me these people are taking part in a voluntary euthenasia programme which is combined with the National Lottery. It may

Fleetwood Mac - "The Chain" (Larkin Poe and The Sheepdogs Cover Video)

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They're playing in London on 21 October at the Roundhouse . Still some tickets available, and at other places around this island. OK, 17, 18 and 20: Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester and in November 24 at Atlanta, GA. Subscribe to Larkin Poe  and  The Sheepdogs .

Lana Del Rey - Cry Kill Die

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[Update: I should have pointed out that this song is unreleased, or at least, it was unreleased, ... that may have changed. I don't know] Subscribe to Idol .

Help Rebuild Lives After Morocco's Earthquake

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I didn't realise it was this bad. These people say children are starving , and that it is just MONEY that they are short of. I cannot for the life of me understand this! How can we be short of money? How can money make any difference to this situation at all? I have given them a $50 donation and another $10 per month, ... but that is not going to go far. Somebody please, please, for the love God, Allah, Jesus Christ, Haile Selassi and all the other saints on this Earth, why does money decide whether someone lives or dies? See  https://www.najaminstitute.com/ .

Sewers in Wealdstone

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Sewers here are very deep, but they still need maintenance, ...  Some videos: Sideways, sorry. The butterfly is the star, ... poor thing. The penny was struck in 2002.

Lee Camp on The War on Drugs

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See  John Schneider on Migration . Here's a link to the article he tallks about:  Rich Countries’ $1 Billion in Foreign “Aid” to Drive Global Drug War . Subscribe to  Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp .

Crispin Sartwell - A Real Philosophy Lecture

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This is really great. He makes me think I could actually start studying modern philosophy one day. C.S. Peirce is awesome. I think that going to America cleared the Western mind of a lot of cobwebs. There's a very nice bit about triangles at 17:25 that my daughter will enjoy. It's for people who have an interest in diagrammatic reasoning. See  The Hunting of The Snark - Fit The Fourth: The Hunting  and  Moritz Klein Doing Real Greek Lego . Google does not find anything on the "the images of a man" except for explicit references to works of C.S.Peirce himself, but I suspect it was Aristotle. I should check, ... See  Charles S. Peirce’s Conservative Progressivism , by Yael Levin Hungerford and The Peirce Edition Project: Collected Writings of C.S. Peirce :  https://peirce.iupui.edu/edition.html : “The papers of Aristotle had suffered grievously and were in places illegible; but Apellicon occupied himself with copying and editing them. Tyrannion found that the editing o

John Schneider on Migration

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See  Lee Camp on The War on Drugs . Subscribe to John Schneider .

Lee Camp on UK Censorship and Animal Rights

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See Almira Tanner (American nominative determinism is Alive and Well!)  https://www.instagram.com/almiratheactivist/  and  https://righttorescue.com/ . See  Looks Like YouTube Are Doing Something Serious About Recommendations  and  Channel Four on Russell Brand . Twitter this morning was beautiful though, and it will be tomorrow too, probably  https://twitter.com/IanANGrant66 See this GBNews piece:  ‘Quit NOW!’ - Calls for Caroline Dinenage to go as it emerges Rumble row MP DIDN'T clear Russell Brand letter with own committee . Caroline Dinenage is Chair of the Culture, Media & Sport Committee. GBNews is Nigel Farage's organ, I think. All out for Julian Assange:  https://popularresistance.org/all-out-for-assange-emergency-actions-if-he-is-extradited/ See also  Support for Julian Assange  and  Butterfly Anxiety - SebastiAn's TRISTAN and Park Life . I wonder about what other legal avenues could be used to block the extradition order. But it's a complicated business an

Iceland's Butterflies

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In 1984 there was a Canoeing and Caving Expedition to Iceland. Sue Gibson had posters of it on her wall and we saw lots of stuff about it at the Canoe Exhibition at the NEC, I think. Iceland Breakthrough 1984 - Paddling Iceland's Jokulsa Subscribe to  Whitewater Video . Kaleo - Way down we go Save yourself Subscribe to Kaleo .

Butterfly Anxiety - SebastiAn's TRISTAN and Park Life

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See  London Grammar and SebastiAn September 26, 2023  and  UK Office for National Statistics Deaths by Vaccination Status Data 2022/2023 SebastiAn - TRISTAN Subscribe to SebastiAn . Blur - Park Life  (April 1994) Subscribe to Blur .

London Grammar and SebastiAn

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Strong (Jul 26, 2013) Dancing by Night (Jul 7, 2023) Making of, by Hannah Reid ... Subscribe to SebastiAnEB  and London Grammar .

UK Office for National Statistics Deaths by Vaccination Status Data 2022/2023

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See  ANNUS HORRIBILIS - In England - Over 155,000 Extra Deaths because of Covid-19 Vaccination Status  and other posts by  https://substack.com/@thenobodywhoknowseverybody . Who should we go to to get people's attention drawn to the fact that there is a serious problem here that needs to be investigated? It's not the Metropolitan Police, because they are only responsible for Londoners, not the whole country. But maybe the Met Police Officers do have an idea, ... After all there are six million or so on their beat, aren't there? These bodies that are piling up, ... Excess deaths nationally are of the order of 30,000 plus. That's a lot of dead bodies! Are we assuming this is some religious rapture thing going on, ... so it doesn't matter? Does that mean the vaccine has some religious significance? Just wondering, ... See  Channel Four on Russell Brand : See the video description :  Park Life: it just ain't 'appenin' ... I have been following Jenny Apple an

Channel Four on Russell Brand

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I didn't know Channel 4 was government-owned. Unlike the BBC, which is funded by the population of viewers paying a licence fee,  Channel 4 is funded entirely by advertising "and the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation , a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport , which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993."  The Metropolitan Police spend £850 million every year outsourcing from "corporate partners" who are serviced internally by a team of sixty people who look after the interests of the Metropolitan Police, or the public, because they're the same I suppose. These partners manage real-estate , amongst other things. They have saved £720 million over the last decade, according to this:  Keeping London Safe . In Bolivia the police who are paid by the banks have the logo on their stab-vests so at least they're open about it. Here's Russell Brand on the alt-right platform

Lee Camp on Chris Hedges' Review of Matt Kennard and Claire Provost‘s book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

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See  Silent Coup - Matt Kennard and Claire Provost‘s book: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy . Yes, but I still think we could have just got on with doing good stuff to enable the people to take it back. It wasn't much that we needed, was it? Well, it was a bit much for one person to do on their own, ... but you know, if we each did a little bit that looked like it was kind of going in the right direction, ... Ah, but the problem is getting money. In order to do that positive, creative stuff, you have to get money somehow and whatever you do, you end up feeding the thing you're trying to replace. So maybe you need a secret society ... Subscribe to Lee Camp .

Support for Julian Assange

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From Brazilian President Lula da Silva in the UN and from Australian MPs who travelled to Washington D.C.: Subscribe to Lee Camp . Subscribe to The Grayzone . But fuck all from Bob Blackman , who is supposedly my MP.

Looks Like YouTube Are Doing Something Serious About Recommendations

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Trying not to get my hopes up, but this is a brilliant idea , so we should be able to copy it on Panquake and Rumble and anywhere else like Louis Rossmann's  https://grayjay.app/ .  See  this post . I got this when I clicked on todays Google doodle: For some reason YouTube has no videos in the topic you get when you click the YouTube "Listen" link: Maybe there was a flash mob psy-op that deleted them all? I don't know. And the Spotify link gives this: "No healthy upstream"? Are they talking about the Amazon or the Thames? Here's an interesting interview with John Matshikiza , his son, who was a South African actor based in London, talking about Richard Attenborough's film Cry Freedom which was shot in Zimbabwe, by the sounds of it: Subscribe to Villon Films . Here's a nice bio of  John Matshikiza : John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Trium

Dr John Campbell - OECD 2023 Excess Deaths Data

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See  https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676 The figures for Sweden, ... I don't think he means they had 1,082.2 fewer excess deaths, I think it means they had 1,082.2 fewer deaths than would be expected. Either that, or I am completely bonkers and don't even understand English, never mind Swedish. Or perhaps I have missed a trick and the OECD are now projecting increased excess deaths and this figure is showing that Sweden is below target. Subscribe to  Dr Campbell . See  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "The jam" (One more time with feeling) : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds .

Neko Case - Oracle of The Maritimes

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I love this song. I had an uncle who had a granite hand and was a fisherman. He died while I was in jail in the United States. He loved America. He had friends in Louisiana or Florida or somewhere down near the Gulf and he fished for bass with them. See  Neko Case - Things That Scare Me  and  Buck 65 - Blood of a Young Wolf . Subscribe to ANTI-Records .

Eleanor Morton - Why Polyamory Wasn't For Me

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She's excelled herself, ... I am weeping with mirth. Subscribe to Eleanor Morton .

Veronica Went to VCF Mid-West Too

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I can't believe I completely forgot about the Motorola 6809 . It's because I never used a machine wth one in it! I heard (read) about the Dragon and TRS-80 Color computer but I don't think I ever saw either in real life. See her Patreon and buy her coffee:  https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains Subscribe to Veronica Explains . Wow, they can really sing too!! Taylor and Amy - The 6502 Song Subscribe to Taylor & Amy . Wow! The only game I ever really enjoyed playing was Out Run in the arcades. “Passing Breeze” from Out Run, composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口 博史) and arranged for brass nonet and rhythm section by Thomas Kresge. I  crashed a lot , but my girlfriend didn't really mind. She just wagged her finger sternly and got back in the passenger seat! Subscribe to  The Game Brass .

Eugenia Cheng on Monads, Monoids, Algebraic Theories and Models

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I am just trying to get an idea of what she says in the first thirty-five seconds or so of this talk, ... See  Algebraic Theory : "Informally in mathematical logic, an algebraic theory is a theory that uses axioms stated entirely in terms of equations between terms with free variables" "Monads are like algebraic theories and an algebra for a monad is a model for that theory ." This is the sort of thing I feel I could understand if I only I could represent all this as some sort of framework computer program, ... Here's the full playlist   Here's an earlier post of mine about this:  Eugenia Cheng on Monads And Category Theory . Subscribe to  The Catsters

Norman Wildberger on Levelling Up Your Musicianship

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When I was trying, some time in 1992, to level up my mathematics, I started to think about why squaring any rational was a piece of cake, and so you could draw the graph of x-squared almost without effort, but drawing the graph of  the square root of x was really hard, unless you just geometrically flipped the graph of x-squared about the line y=x. It turns out that's a long story, ...  David Turner Talking About Sixty Years of Functional Programming History  and  Eugenia Cheng on Monads, Monoids, Algebraic Theories and Models . Norman's done quite a lot of music videos in his maths series: See  Chuck Berry's Weather Report December 10, 2020 . At the time I wrote that post I had no idea of the Scottish history of Darien:  The History Guy on Panama's Scottish History , nor of the Callawayas in Paname: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "The jam" (One more time with feeling) . I did however know about Sean Connery's hat! So who makes these rules? See  Darz Rojas