(1) I know someone who got this food allergy from a tick bite. It sounded so unlikely as a phenomenon, but apparently it’s quite real: The ticks can pick up the Alpha-gal carbohydrate from a previous mammalian host and transfer … Continue reading →
Maxwell doesn’t get enough respect:
Continue reading →Have a wonderful holiday!
Continue reading →A man who doesn’t shy away from Big questions:
Continue reading →(1) Here’s a good summary of the Michigan “kidnapping” case and the FBI’s involvement. Perhaps we should rename it the FBE: Federal Bureau of Entrapment. Here are some interesting things that I hadn’t remembered. The first is that – if … Continue reading →
He has every right to crow:
Continue reading →I strongly suggest muting the music while you watch this:
Continue reading →(1) Hunter Biden’s “Big Guy.” (2) Post-lockdown college students feel aimless and disconnected: In 20 years of teaching at Doane University, Kate Marley has never seen anything like it. As many as 30 percent of her students do not show … Continue reading →
I’ve long wondered about this:
Continue reading →Two of my favorites – Fil and Robin Gibb. If you’ve ever wondered what made Robin Gibb’s vibrato so unique, Fil will show you beginning at 16:37: His vibrato was unusually fast and unusually narrow in pitch variation.
Continue reading →Unexpected news: The scientists at the Fermilab Collider Detector (CDF) in Illinois have found only a tiny difference in the mass of the W Boson compared with what the theory says it should be – just 0.1%. But if confirmed … Continue reading →