A number of countries in the world have decided to set a minimum age of 18 or higher for both men and women, including China, Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, the Philippines, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Vietnam, among various others. (In … Continue reading
I hesitate to add to the cacophony over this, and by “this” I mean Donald Trump Junior’s confirmation that despite months of emphatic denials, very senior members of the Trump campaign were involved in efforts to get anti-Clinton information from … Continue reading
Ally Hord and Amber Ruffin, a couple of writers for Late Night with Seth Meyers offer up contrasting views on the film Wonder Woman. The bit itself is OK (and Ally sneaks in some legitimate serious points), but from the … Continue reading
The Funny Times is a tabloid newspaper published monthly and full of cartoons (political and otherwise) and comic essays, along with other nifty things such as “News of the Weird” and “Harper’s Index.” I highly recommend it. And if enough … Continue reading
Every year Bill and Melinda Gates write a letter on behalf of their foundation reporting on world trends. This year they address it to Warren Buffet, the famously wealthy investor who in 2006 donated the bulk of his assets to … Continue reading
Hans Rosling, who died of pancreatic cancer 2017 February 7 at the age of 68, was professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He was a gifted public speaker who specialized in correcting popular misconceptions, including pessimistic … Continue reading
Here’s Dr Aaron Carroll’s five-minute summary of the latest publicly released version of the Senate’s proposed healthcare changes. Link: https://youtu.be/IwJ8wkZ0EcQ If you’ve been keeping up with this, you’re probably already familiar with most of the bad news. Costs would rise … Continue reading
This article on game designers from the July 5 issue of IndyWeek (a weekly newspaper in the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area of North Carolina) is definitely worth a quick read. Just as there are scads of novelists, … Continue reading
This past April 21 the North Carolina State Board of Elections released results of an audit (PDF) of illegal votes cast in the 2016 general election. The News & Observer of Raleigh provided a good summary the same day and … Continue reading
The latest issue of Sky & Telescope has a short article by astronomy professor Andrew Franknoi on a project to address the high cost of college textbooks. OpenStax, a non-profit based at Rice University, has commissioned a series of new … Continue reading