It’s amazing how seemlessly Donald Trump would fit in on this series: Link: https://youtu.be/I0tE6T-ecmg by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Music associated with positive emotions — love, happiness, and so on — tends to be written in a major key, and minor keys are used for music meant to sound sad, eerie, or menacing. This is of course very rough … Continue reading
In the most recent Republican debate on CNN, Marco Rubio went after Donald Trump over something called “Trump University,” which I suspect most people have never heard of. Someone might be forgiven for thinking it was something like Harvard University … Continue reading
In a post yesterday I wrote in passing, “Anyone who buys into the myth that Trump is a successful businessman needs to do a little reading.” Of course, Donald Trump himself would assure you he’s “great” and “yuge,” but an … Continue reading
The GOP establishment has lately turned to Marco Rubio as the only remaining plausible alternative to Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Trump they worry would cost them the general election in a landslide or — worse — be elected. Cruz … Continue reading
In this brief clip novelist John Green points out yet another way in which the world is better and offers some thoughts (prompted by Bill Gates) on the importance of free time and (preferably less polluting) sources of energy. It’s … Continue reading
Former Ohio Governor John Kasich is the only Republican presidential candidate still standing who’s actually qualified to be president. This isn’t to say that I agree with him about very much; I don’t. But his opponents are all pretty much … Continue reading
Research published in the 29 January issue of the journal Science shows that more than 2000 years ago, Babylonian astronomers in what is today Iraq were using unexpectedly advanced mathematics to predict the position of Jupiter. This is based on … Continue reading
I’m late getting this posted, but for the record, today, February 22, is Washington’s actual birthday. The Washington’s Birthday holiday in the United States is observed on the third Monday in February, which never actually falls on Washington’s birthday. But … Continue reading
The guy behind the drive-thru pranks (skeleton driver and the like) does a bit with a plush frog sitting on a bench in a park who asks women to kiss him and turn him back into a prince. A remarkably … Continue reading