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- | ====== Cool documentary on Gamma Ray cause and source theories====== | ||
- | Been trying to watch the Netflix documentary "The Real Death Star", which is about the scientific journey to figure out the source and cause of gamma ray bursts. | ||
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- | ====== Trying to multitask on social media ====== | ||
- | I am also trying to read and write meaningful comments on Facebook at the same time. | ||
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- | This kind of multi-tasking while watching a science documentary is not working well. I get into writing a response to somebody on something, like critiquing a skewed interpretation of the Council of Nicea, and then my attention drifts back to the documentary, | ||
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- | So I am wearing out the rewind button on my remote. Yeah, maybe 2 hours sitting here, and I haven' | ||
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- | ====== Maybe I need to try a different kind of multi-tasking ====== | ||
- | Probably need to watch something vapid and slow moving, like the typical multi-season series. Or be playing the game of Go that exercises a different part of my mind while keeping attention to the documentary. I often play my turns in online Go while talking to people, or listening to radio podcasts. As a kid I liked to let my eyes rove about the geometry of the room I was in while listing to a sermon or a lecture. | ||
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- | ====== What is popular on the web ====== | ||
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- | This wiki article is apparently not the first ever to mention "gamma ray bursts" | ||
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