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Time magazine Washington deputy bureau chief Mark Thompson on Tuesday’s episode of PBS Newshour, talking about an annual Pentagon study on sexual assault in the United States military released on the same day:

This is a longstanding problem. I was on this show 16 years ago talking about it.

That line really stuck with me, although the whole thing isn’t quite as gloomy as those two sentences might imply; Thompson feels we may have reached a turning point with the culture of silence.

And you gotta love a guy who replies to the customary closing of “thanks a lot for being with us” with “you bet.”

DeWayne Wickham on Sam Lacy, the first black person admitted to the Baseball Writers Association of America:

Once, during a game in New Orleans, Lacy was forced to sit on the roof of the press box because no blacks were allowed inside. That outrage sparked several white sports writers to join him atop the press box. That act of protest helped shatter baseball’s other color barrier — the one that long relegated black sport writers to only covering Negro Leagues baseball games.

The column is generally about Lacy’s relationship with Jackie Robinson and how he was apparently omitted entirely from the recent film 42.

George Kokoris, who is stereoblind, on perceiving volume for the first time while playing a Nintendo 3DS:

Not only was I “seeing into the screen” the way so many others feel when playing a 3DS for the first time, I was seeing in a direction that had previously been literally invisible to me. It’s difficult to come up with a metaphor. Maybe it’s what Gomez saw the first time he spun the world in Fez. Maybe you can remember the first time you lay on the grass at night, looked up at the stars, and realized you weren’t looking up at all, because there is no “up”, and you were suddenly aware of being attached to the surface of a tiny sphere rolling through a vast emptiness.

I choked up a bit.

Back in 2010, Dr. Dan Myers, professor of sociology at Notre Dame, blogged about his search for the shortest theoretically possible game of Monopoly. He found a game where the second player loses in four turns, with seven rolls happening between the two players (rolling doubles allows you to roll again). He even uploaded a video demonstration showing the second player bankrupted in thirteen seconds. Neat.

If you hate yourself, you can check the video’s comments to see people arguing with him about the validity of the rule set used in the solution.