Below is yet another notable installment of the XKCD web comic that is very much worth a look. It addresses the far-too-common misconception that since the world’s temperature has changed before, global warming is no big deal and possibly just … Continue reading
Like most of you, I suspect, I vividly remember the full-time television news coverage in the immediate aftermath of the horrific and monstrous terrorist attacks on the United States fifteen years ago today. The networks did a reasonably good job … Continue reading
IBMs Watson project has used AI techniques for a variety of things, perhaps most famously competing against humans on the gam show Jeopardy. It has even done an analysis of the characters in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice … Continue reading
I’m not a particular fan of Star Trek (or of Star Wars, for that matter, having seen only four of the films in that series), but I’ve nothing against people who are, and I rather like this home theater based … Continue reading
I’ve become a fan of East India Comedy, a group of Indian comics with an active YouTube channel. Even when I don’t get a lot of the jokes (which is most of the time), I still find their material entertaining. … Continue reading
Minute Physics points out that despite the Sun’s immense gravity, it’s remarkably hard to throw something off of Earth so that it hits the Sun. In fact, it’s actually easier, at least in terms of energy, to send a payload … Continue reading
The latest XKCD web comic: Link: http://xkcd.com/1686/ In more or less the same vein, consider this: Below courtesy of YouTube are the first two episodes of the Buck Rogers Saturday matinee serial starring Bust Crabbe, which premiered in 1939, the … Continue reading
This isn’t a joke: The cat pictured, a very friendly stray named Manny, has learned to push the shutter release on a GoPro camera, and the resulting selfies tend to be pretty good. I swiped the photo above from an … Continue reading
A few years ago an action movie fan in Uganda named Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana decided to make a movie. Like many people in his country he had little money and lived in difficult circumstances, but he and his friends … Continue reading
An 85-year-old man going to get his taxes done happened to see a dance studio in the same building. He had for decades dreamed of taking tap dancing lessons, and despite the fact that he was a bit unsteady on … Continue reading