Top Items About Demonstrations
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| Anecdotes | Richard Feynman & the O-ring Debate | After the space shuttle Challenger exploded, a distinguished panel of scientists, government officials, and... | root | 290 | |
| Anecdotes | Banksy's Pranks | Banksy.. is both a lefty and a tweaker of lefty pieties. At a London antiwar demonstration in 2003, he distributed signs... | root | 85 | |
| Anecdotes | 50-50 Proposition | While lecturing on probability at Warwick University one day in October 1972, Jeffrey Hamilton, demonstrating the effect... | Anonymous | 56 | |
| Anecdotes | O Rings | Following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Trivia | Professor resigns after student strips in class | In February 2004, a North Carolina college professor has resigned after a male student stripped off in class in exchange... | root | 52 | |
| Anecdotes | Dramatic Reading | At a dinner party one evening the great Polish actress Helena Modjeska, famed for her realistic and emotional style... | Anonymous | 45 | |
| Anecdotes | Minor Omission | One morning while teaching English composition at Yale University, John Berdan read a particularly awful sample to his... | Anonymous | 37 | |
| Anecdotes | Lights Out? | In 2001, Martin Creed was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize (for excellence in the visual arts) for a work - entitled... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | Canute`s Conversion | According to a twelfth-century chronicle, King Canute, tiring of the excessive flattery of his retainers, ordered that... | Anonymous | 29 | |
| Anecdotes | Crossfire | One day during the post-production of Crossfire (1947), Edward Dmytryk`s penetrating cinematic indictment... | Anonymous | 28 |
