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Comedy Central’s Key and Peele (whose program is in its final season, to the regret of many) show what life might be like if there were a little more justice in the world and the best teachers were valued as … Continue reading
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A possible to reason to reconsider moving to Florida: Link: https://youtu.be/7Qp_bUYPrTg This particular alligator does need to practice the dismount. by … Continue reading
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are writers who met, fell in love, and got married in New York and now live in Missouri, where he teaches creative writing and helps his twin sister run a bar. They’re just about to … Continue reading
For decades a small number of astronomers have been searching for evidence of intelligent signals from space, so far with no confirmed discoveries. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to discover, however, because they have barely begun to look at all … Continue reading
This rather strange television series, a mixture of Western, comedy, and science fiction, was steampunk before steampunk was cool. It ran only 28 episodes over a single season. Bruce Campbell plays the title character, a graduate of Harvard Law School … Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen this it’s reasonably amusing. Nick Offerman (best known for playing real man Ron Swanson on the sitcom Parks & Recreation) here portrays an opponent of efforts to get kids to eat better, contending that pizza, … Continue reading
(Update: Unfortunately, the hitchhiking robot has been irreparably damaged by vandals in Philadelphia. More in this later post.) In an interesting social experiment (described in an Associated Press report by Collin Binkley), a couple of Canadian researchers have launched a … Continue reading
This is a fun space opera with a nice sense of humor and flashes of humanity, but it has so many characters and such a convoluted plot that it would have helped if the film had come with orientation briefings … Continue reading
I don’t drink coffee and I’ve never liked the taste of it, but after watching this from Dr Aaron Carroll I’m thinking I should try to learn to like it. That’s especially true since I have problems with daytime sleepiness … Continue reading
A few decades in the future the Earth is suffering serious environmental problems and an associated economic depression. Diseases wipe out entire food crops while dust storms sweep across the landscape. Matthew McConaughey is a former astronaut now trying to … Continue reading