Casey Chan

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  • The Longest Word In English Takes At Least 2 Hours To Say

    The Longest Word In English Takes At Least 2 Hours To Say

    The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you about two hours to mumble through. Seriously. It’s the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein “that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle.” If it’s your thing, you can listen to a guy…


  • Why Aaron Sorkin’s Screenplay For The Social Network Was So Damn Good

    Why Aaron Sorkin’s Screenplay For The Social Network Was So Damn Good

    The Social Network was a fantastic movie for many reasons: The direction of David Fincher, the music by Trent Reznor, the acting of mostly everyone involved and, of course, the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. It’s trademark Sorkin, with dialogue stacked on top of more dialogue and characters expressing so many different things at once, and…


  • Making Things From Old Skateboard Decks Turns Recycling Into Art

    Making Things From Old Skateboard Decks Turns Recycling Into Art

    Video: Jerry McNamara’s Day By Day is a short documentary that focuses its lens on artist George Rocha of Iris Skateboards in San Francisco. Rocha takes stacks of old, unrideable skateboard decks, glues them together, grinds ’em up and then transforms them into functional objects like furniture, tables, tap handles and, yes, even “new” skateboards.