I haven’t said anything yet about the barbaric attacks in Paris, mainly because I couldn’t think of anything, but I just saw a news item worth mentioning: At the start of yesterday’s Army-Tulane game, the football team of the United … Continue reading
Here’s someone whose hobby is building various things with stone-age technology, in this case a hut with a ceramic tile roof and underfloor heating. He doesn’t live this way; he’s just interested in how it might be done. His raw … Continue reading
In 1950 physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with his colleagues at Los Alamos when he suddenly asked something like “Where are they?” or “Where is everybody?” (recollections differed). Everyone laughed, because while the question came out of the blue, … Continue reading
This is disappointing news: Based on a number of experimental studies, brain-training exercises and games don’t seem to improve general brain health or ward off dementia. It is true that practicing specific tasks, such as learning and recalling names or … Continue reading
When I was growing up there were urban legends of evil people slipping razor blades into apples to give to kids on Halloween. Yes, kids, back in those days razor blades were paper-thin pieces of metal rather than plastic cartridges … Continue reading
Sorry to be so late mentioning this, but the new Jesse Stone movie, Lost in Paradise, premiered on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel last night, and naturally I missed it. It will be shown again October 25 on the … Continue reading
Hank Green very briefly (in about 2 1/2 minutes) talks about whether we crazy humans could destroy the Earth several times over with nuclear weapons: Link: https://youtu.be/3CerozsNjgw I think Hank is probably right in his conclusion that no, we probably … Continue reading
I’m not a fan of awards shows, but one that might be worth seeing is the American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Awards, to be broadcast one month from tonight, on October 30, 2015, at 9 pm Eastern on The Hallmark … Continue reading
A few days ago I posted a four-minute video from John Green talking about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious proposal from the year 2000 to address a number of major world problems in just 15 years. You might … Continue reading
The latest from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website: http://apod.nasa.gov Permanent link to today’s page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150925.html by … Continue reading