A few days ago while roaming about, the radio in the car was tuned to NPR and I got to listen to some confusing ramble about modern fashion. Normally this would result in “lets change the channel to static to listen to what the cosmic background radiation has to say today,” but it was so…
Who destroyed Star Trek? Hmmm… I recently re-watched Star Trek: Enterprise, after perhaps a decade. I’d seen it twice before: when it originally aired, and then once I got all 4 seasons on cheap DVDs. And my memory of the show was: Season 1: Bah. Season 2: Bah. Season 3: Meh. Season 4: Woo!…
J. Robert Oppenheimer is justly famed for his role in developing the A-bomb. He is considered to be something of a martyr for what happened later… during the “Red Scare” he was stripped of his security clearance. But was it actually wrong to do so? Was his interest in the Communist Party some minor childish…
First, good news from the world of medicine: UK’s first womb transplant deemed ‘massive success’: ‘Over the moon’ One woman (40) donated her womb to her sister (34) who was born with a malformed womb. So both women can have kids. This is good news. The first uterus transplant was in 2013 in Sweden, so…
US Justice Dept sues SpaceX over hiring practices “Our investigation found that SpaceX failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees because of their citizenship status and imposed what amounted to a ban on their hire regardless of their qualification, in violation of federal law,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. How about…
A few years ago a lot of people were blown away to find out that a sizable fraction of the population has no inner monologue. Some people can’t “hear” themselves think or “hear” remembered music, movies, things loved ones said. Related, some people can’t envision things: they can’t see an apple in their minds eye,…
US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately The State Department, in its warning, encouraged Americans still in Belarus to depart the country immediately and categorized the country as a Level 4 risk, the highest security warning. Two possibilities spring immediately to mind: 1) The US Government knows that something is about to happen 2) The…
As all honest American recognize, for the past several generations cultural power has swung far left. Leftists shriek about how awful America is, yet they hold all the reins of power: they dominate the government, they control the educational system from kindergartens through universities, and they force the largest corporations to bend the knee to…
So a lone 23-year old decided to make a Scooby-Doo fan film. To do this, he used computer generated stop-motion to replicate the look of a Rankin-Bass holiday TV movie from back in the day… and an AI voice generator. This latter was due to the fact that this project had no budget to afford…
“Our heroes aircraft is falling from the sky! Will they pull out in time to avoid a firey crash and bring the episode, nay, the entire series, to a screeching and unexpected halt, requiring not only clever writing but also difficult actor contract negotiations with the attendant risk of turning off the existing fans?” Bah.…
