As you’re probably aware, the partially autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia has voted in favor of independence and the Spanish central government has intervened to block it. I don’t know enough to have a strong opinion either way. On principle … Continue reading
U can’t lift this. Link: https://youtu.be/GG4BqRhtFxs by … Continue reading
Pediatrician and medical school professor Dr Aaron Carroll summarizes (in eight minutes) the research on abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education: Link: https://youtu.be/0BkFQ0oUncE The title at the top of the window above — “The Evidence for Abstinence-Only Sex Education Is Scant” … Continue reading
As I don’t have to tell you, the first and last days of October saw multiple people murdered in attacks in Las Vegas and New York. The one in New York was carried out by a fanatic radicalized over the … Continue reading
Once again I demonstrate that I’m easily amused… First, Rahat returns to the drive-thru yet again with the second outing of the puppet from the Saw movies (who surely gets hungry for fast food once in a while): Link: https://youtu.be/-z3qz9FdCG0 … Continue reading
From 4 1/2 year in the past (appropriately enough), a Glove & Boots video about time travel: Link: https://youtu.be/75nBenOWul0 I’ve long been a fan of Glove & Boots, so I was distressed to learn that their views and revenues have … Continue reading
The latest from Rahat’s series of drive-thru pranks: Link: https://youtu.be/RxJ12FUrkm8 Other posts about Rahat’s pranks can be found here. by … Continue reading
How did I not know about this before? Just over ten years ago the Japanese company Crypton Future Media released computer software that can be used to generate a female singing voice, originally in Japanese and later in English and … Continue reading
A relatively new attraction in New York’s Times Square is Gulliver’s Gate, something like a huge model train set the size of a football field reproducing famous locations around the world in 1:87 scale. It includes the city’s own Grand … Continue reading
In a Mexican restaurant the other night I saw the U.S. soccer team fall to Trinidad y Tobago and thus get eliminated from next year’s World Cup competition. (It said it on the screen: “EE UU eliminado.”) Except that this … Continue reading