Four Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

14:54

US Healthcare. "American healthcare is split into 2 piles: 1. Face holes. 2. Not face holes." [a.wholelottanothing.org]

MAR1D, a 1-dimensional version of Super Mario Bros., aka you see the in-game action as Mario would see it, flattened into a single dimension. Sort of a video game version of Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. [mar1d.com]

The world's timekeepers are getting rid of the leap second in favor of pure atomic time. "It will take a few thousand years for atomic time to diverge as much as an hour from Earth time." [nytimes.com]

I Believe That Marriage Is a Sacred Union. "I believe that marriage is a lasting partnership between one person without health insurance and one person who gets pretty good coverage through work." [newyorker.com]

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