Audibly crispy potatoes use duck fat.  Roasted, not deep-fried.  Recipe by Kamran Siddiqi serves 4 and takes a total time of 1 hour.  http://www.sophisticatedgourmet.com/2016/12/crispy-roast-potatoes-recipe/



“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”  Nelson Mandela  Find Mandela quotes about education at https://borgenproject.org/nelson-mandela-quotes-about-education/



A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.   Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within.  Robots may be constructed on the lines of human form, but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to their aesthetics.  The term comes from a Czech word, robota, meaning "forced labor"; the word 'robot' was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti - Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek but it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.  Electronics evolved into the driving force of development with the advent of the first electronic autonomous robots created by William Grey Walter in Bristol, England in 1948, as well as Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools in the late 1940s by John T. Parsons and Frank L. Stulen.  The first commercial, digital and programmable robot was built by George Devol in 1954 and was named the Unimate.  It was sold to General Motors in 1961 where it was used to lift pieces of hot metal from die casting machines at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in the West Trenton section of Ewing Township, New Jersey.  In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, Karel Čapek  explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři ("workers", from Latin labor).  However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti".  The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.  Asimov created the "Three Laws of Robotics" which are a recurring theme in his books.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot



Find a list of Isaac Asimov's science fiction books reading order suggested by Asimov himself at https://scl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/92757872/97942932

Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.  It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics, from evolutionary biology to computer science, etc.  To fully understand the scope of combinatorics requires a great deal of further amplification, the details of which are not universally agreed upon.   According to H.J. Ryser, a definition of the subject is difficult because it crosses so many mathematical subdivisions.   Insofar as an area can be described by the types of problems it addresses, combinatorics is involved with the enumeration (counting) of specified structures, sometimes referred to as arrangements or configurations in a very general sense, associated with finite systems; the existence of such structures that satisfy certain given criteria; the construction of these structures, perhaps in many ways; and optimization, finding the "best" structure or solution among several possibilities, be it the "largest", "smallest" or satisfying some other optimality criterion.  Read more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics  See also https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/Chapter3.pdf and 1:48 video at https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/crowds/crowds-1/v/intro-crowds



Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk, a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk (Bear Place) in the language of the native Munsee-Lenape Delaware peoples:  possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original profile of the ridge, which has since been changed heavily by 220 years of mining.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe,_Pennsylvania



Athlete Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) is buried in a mausoleum in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, a town that agreed to change its name in order to win the privilege of housing Thorpe's memorial.  At the 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe accomplished the unprecedented feat of winning gold medals in both the pentathlon and the decathlon.  Although he was stripped of his medals due to a violation of his amateur status prior to the Olympics, Thorpe went on to play both professional baseball and football and was an especially gifted football player.  Jim Thorpe and his twin brother Charlie were born in Prague, Oklahoma to Hiram Thorpe and Charlotte Vieux.  Both parents were of mixed Native American and European heritage.  Hiram and Charlotte had a total of 11 children, six of whom died in early childhood.  On his father's side, Jim Thorpe was related to the great warrior Black Hawk, whose people (the Sac and Fox tribe) had originally come from the Lake Michigan region.  They were forced by the United States government to resettle in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1869.  The Thorpes lived in a log farmhouse on the Sac and Fox reservation, where they grew crops and raised livestock.  Although most members of their tribe wore traditional native clothing and spoke the Sac and Fox language, the Thorpes adopted many customs of white people.  In 1904, a representative from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania came to the Oklahoma Territory looking for candidates for the trade school.  (Carlisle had been founded by an army officer in 1879 as a vocational boarding school for young Native Americans.) Thorpe's father convinced Jim to enroll at Carlisle, knowing there were few opportunities available for him in Oklahoma.  Thorpe entered the Carlisle School in June 1904 at age 16.  In 1937, Thorpe returned to Oklahoma to promote the rights of Native Americans.  He joined a movement to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the government entity that oversaw all aspects of life on reservations.  The Wheeler Bill, which would allow native peoples to manage their own affairs, failed to pass in the legislature.  In 1950, Thorpe was voted by Associated Press sportswriters as the greatest football player of the half-century.  His competition for the title included sports legends such as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Jesse Owens.  Later that same year he was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame.  Three decades after Thorpe's death, the International Olympic Committee reversed its decision and issued duplicate medals to Jim Thorpe's children in 1983.  Patricia Daniels  Read extensive biography at https://www.thoughtco.com/jim-thorpe-1779819



"September 25, 2019   How about "crazy" or even a "Frankenstein's monster" with major health problems?  That's what the creator of the first ever labrador-poodle crossover says.  In a recent interview on an ABC podcast, Wally Conron says the invention is his "life's regret" and he hasn't "got a clue" why people are still breeding them today.  He's become concerned that an influx of copycat cross-breeds has created health problems for many dogs.  I opened a Pandora's box" Wally told ABC, "I released a Frankenstein".  "People are just breeding for the money . . .  unscrupulous breeders are crossing poodles with inappropriate dogs simply so they can say they were the first to do it."   Read reaction of labradoodle owners and see pictures at https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49826945



Dictionary:  Social media--staring at an electronic device by yourself.  Pearls Before Swine comic strip  October 24, 2019



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