John Oliver and his associates at HBO’s Last Week Tonight have come up with a brilliant way to make coverage of the Supreme Court more watchable: Link: http://youtu.be/fJ9prhPV2PI The raw footage to let you make your own Supreme Court videos … Continue reading
Diana Zuckerman has an important blog post on the member’s website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As she points out, Congress has taken some action — and is considering more — to promote the development of … Continue reading
Shepard Smith on Fox News spends just a few minutes explaining why it makes no sense for people in the United States to panic over their tiny risk of contracting Ebola: Link: http://youtu.be/Z2KBfynW09I As Smith says in the clip above, … Continue reading
My single most popular entry on this blog was a review of the Jesse Stone series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. I’ve had dozens of comments on it, almost all from people wanting to see more of them. By … Continue reading
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The XKCD web comic offers not just comic strips but often some quite interesting and informative graphics. Here’s yet another example: The associated title text (what you see if you hover your mouse pointer over the image) reads, “People often … Continue reading
A caution before you watch this: If you have some good reason not to get seriously angry right now — perhaps high blood pressure or you need to get to bed soon — don’t watch this, because it will very … Continue reading
Wow, is this good. I started to watch it the other day and had a connection problem so I only just got around to viewing it. (Thanks to my brother Tom for recommending it, by the way.) In just a … Continue reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron performs a Conservative Party rap with the help of some heavy-duty editing by a YouTuber calling himself CassetteBoy. Contains some naughty language (see the lyric below). Probably not safe for work, but that of course … Continue reading
BBC Scotland has multiple amusing technical problems in less than a minute: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess The report mentions Rudolf Hess, the Nazi deputy führer who had become isolated from the rest of the leadership and apparently concocted, with the help of … Continue reading