As usual, John Oliver manages to be entertaining and informative in this piece on why withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement makes no sense. Link: https://youtu.be/5scez5dqtAc Meanwhile, Trump’s fellow billionaire Sir Richard Branson (a considerably more successful businessman than Trump, … Continue reading
Despite the fact that the Senate GOP’s healthcare plan is dead in the water, the following is still relevant. The Republican leadership still plans to vote on a straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act (with the actual effect possibly … Continue reading
A week ago I posted a talk by professor Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who tragically died of pancreatic cancer earlier in 2017. Here’s another talk of his from 2007 that everyone should see. The overall message … Continue reading
This is pretty funny, and the possible spoilers are vague enough that even if you’re not caught up through the last season of Game of Thrones they probably won’t hurt your enjoyment of the series when you get around to … Continue reading
A short article in the April 29 issue of Science News (originally published on line March 23, and yes, I am indeed behind in my reading) reports that a team of planetary scientists involved in NASA’S New Horizons mission to … Continue reading
Indiana University pediatrics professor Aaron Carroll MD offers on of the clearest succinct descriptions I’ve seen of the Senate Republicans’ latest attempt at a bill to “repeal and replace Obamacare” as they like to call it. Link: https://youtu.be/xa4dLts5nVw Medical organizations, … Continue reading
I remember watching a short documentary on schlieren photography in college. It’s a technique that allows you to see air currents, temperature differences, and other things that are usually invisible. What’s impressive about the Veritasium video below is the remarkable … Continue reading
In this segment from early June Samantha Bee talks about cheap drug test kits used in the field by police that are generate a lot of false positives. In theory the kits are supposed to be be used only as … Continue reading
Jim O’Heir is an actor who looks something like me, or would if he grew a beard and had less hair and was shorter. And yet he got to make out with Aubrey Plaza because Aubrey Plaza thought it would … Continue reading
Net neutrality basically says that companies providing provide Internet access can make money charging for bandwidth, but they can’t use their monopoly power to extort extra payments from successful Internet businesses, large and small, by threatening to block or slow … Continue reading