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!…
Tony Landis has just released – for free – his book on the F-16XL: https://wss.apan.org/public/AFMC-History-Office/Shared Documents/F-16XL Book_Final-web (1).pdf It’s a 285-page heavily illustrated PDF; highly recommended. It will soon also be available as a paperback through Amazon: Neat.
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…
So, there’s this movie coming: It looks like your bog-standard Supernatural Entity Scary Horror Movie, with the twist being that the main characters are Indian immigrant and the Entity is something out of Indian folklore. OK, sure. We’ve all seen this before, with folk monsters from various ethnicities/nationalities/whatever pestering the appropriate people. Here’s my idea,…
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…
A year ago I posted a reaction video for “Field of Dreams” where a coupla younguns watched the movie for the first time and reacted appropriately. Here’s one just posted today, where the reactor is hit *hard.* Perhaps it’s odd to be so entertained to see someone get emotionally tore up by something that tor…
