How? Why? Here’s what I’m talking about: Suddenly, in late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very … Continue reading →
Some issues came up about abortion in the comments yesterday, and I think I’ll briefly take up two of them. (1) From “R2L”: I wonder why the standing of the father is so seldom mentioned in these cases and discussions. … Continue reading →
A number of people have suggested I read this Substack essay by Richard Pollock, a left-to-right changer who was an Alinskyite leftist radical back in the 60s and 70s. My impression on reading that one essay is that he’s something … Continue reading →
For the past few months not only has a lot of the news been extremely depressing, but it’s been appearing on so many fronts that I have at least thirty stories to choose from each day for my blog posts. … Continue reading →
It’s been said many times by many people. Solzhenitsyn: Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. And then there’s Robert Frost (in the … Continue reading →
The Netherlands has been a leader in this particular trend. Here’s the latest: Zoraya ter Beek is one of a growing number of people across the West choosing to end their lives rather than live in pain. Pain that in … Continue reading →
This guy certainly thinks so: Last year, theoretical physicist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa in Canada published a rather extraordinary proposal that the Universe’s currently accepted age is a trick of the light, one that masks its truly … Continue reading →
According to the Big Bang theory, in the beginning of the universe there was darkness. The Webb telescope is shedding some light on how light came to be: According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the … Continue reading →
AI may not dream of electric sheep*, but it certainly has an active imagination. Matt Taibbi found Google’s Gemini to be spinning yarns about him, and even making accusations of anti-Semitism. The more times Taibbi asked Gemini to tell him … Continue reading →
[NOTE: What could be more appropriate on Groundhog Day than a repeat of an old essay about the movie? The film is a huge personal favorite of mine: very funny, mysterious, and touching. This essay has been slightly edited, of … Continue reading →
The demonstrators in Israel for the hostages plead, “Bring them home!” But why address Israel? After all, Israel isn’t holding the hostages. And it’s been made clear for a long time that Hamas is finished negotiating, except perhaps to ask … Continue reading →
Please watch. It’s not long. All the hostages were not kept under the same circumstances or by the same people, so there was and is some variation their experiences – plus of course the variation in their personalities prior to … Continue reading →