Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 19, 2015
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Transcript:
Alice: Look, a rainbow! Dill: Ooh! Dad: Sir Issac Newton believed the rainbow divided light into seven colors, analogous to the seven notes of the diatonic scale. Alice: Mom says he has paternal explanatory syndrome, or drivelalia factosis, caused by a buildup of useless information in the brain. Dill: "Drivelalia factosis"! Ha! I'll remember that!
Even in summer vacation, you learn something. (“Was Isaac Newton also famous for those fig-flavored cookies,” Alice and Dil ask.)