One of my more eccentric DPhil acquaintances posted this sketch on facebook - which he doodled while attending a really boring conference talk. He does stuff about the history of music and wrote a dissertation on violins. He works for a big auction house now, handling Stradivariuses with white felt gloves. All of this is true, and the reality of this person is even more peppered with delightful arcane eccentricities...
The Amazing Engineering Behind Mount Rushmore
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The colossal sculpture of four presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore in
South Dakota is actually titled *Shrine of Democracy*. Sculptor Gutzon
Borglum...
so intellectual
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