Bo Diddley wasn’t the first artist to use the beat in his self-titled song, but it became known as the “Bo Diddley” beat anyway.
A lot of songs use that beat, including a few before Bo Diddley. But did any do it better?
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Straight Line of the Day: Scientists have discovered that the laws of nature are ‘downright weird.’ Proof of that is…
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“The fine structure constant is the quantity that physicists use as a measure of the strength of the electromagnetic force,” Professor Webb says.
“It’s a dimensionless number and it involves the speed of light, something called Planck’s constant and the electron charge, and it’s a ratio of those things. And it’s the number that physicists use to measure the strength of the electromagnetic force.”
— Phys.org / April 27, 2040
Yep, they’re right. Weird.
Spoilers: over. Unless you have cats in the house. Which is apparently a thing.
Also spoilers: That Simon Whistler guy is not in the video.
Your thoughts? On both the over/under, and inside cats.
