Science marches on: A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Australia and the U.K. has taught a small mass of human brain cells to play the video game Pong… The mass, which the researchers call a cyborg, was … Continue reading →
Playing the kazoo without a kazoo. These guys were geniuses:
Continue reading →Not really a surprise, is it?: Leading California cannabis companies warned Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday that the state’s legal industry was on the verge of collapse and needed immediate tax cuts and a rapid expansion of retail outlets to … Continue reading →
A lot of things puzzle me, and one of the big ones – although I should know better than to be surprised by it – is why anyone would have believed candidate Joe Biden when he said, in October of … Continue reading →
From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera: Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise– the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and … Continue reading →
Here’s a sickening story: A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the … Continue reading →
Manchin has held firm against Build Back Better – so far. Is he alone among the Democrats? We don’t know, but no one else has come out publicly against it. From a comment at Powerline: It’s such a joke that … Continue reading →
It’s probably just as well that we live now and not back then. Doesn’t sound like a lot of fun:
Continue reading →As part of my newish – or rather, renewed – interest in popular music, I’ve been listening to a lot of music old and new. No doubt it’s at least partly as an escape from the political dolors du jour. … Continue reading →
New Hampshire has been relatively unscathed by COVID up till now, so among the entire population – vaccinated and unvaccinated – there probably hasn’t been as much previous community exposure as in many other states. Also, most of the prior … Continue reading →
If Roe is overturned it will almost certainly leave decisions about abortion law in the hands of each state, for that state only. If Governor Newsom of California has anything to say about it, California will not only keep abortions … Continue reading →