An article by Damian Carrington in today's issue of The Guardian summarizes some of the the problems created by warming oceans. I recommend the whole article, but here are a few extracts: The number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans … Continue reading
When Stephen Colbert shows a photo of someone in the news, he almost always gives their actual position as well as an alternative one based on how they look in the picture, as in "White House spokesperson, and angry woman … Continue reading
An Associated Press article by Chad Day and Eric Tucker published Saturday points out that while Robert Mueller's report has not yet been turned in to the Justice Department, let alone made public, a lot of its likely contents can … Continue reading
As a reader at Talking Points Memo observed, if the Mueller report more is good news for Trump and his immediate family we can expect to see it quickly, but if it gets hushed up it's pretty likely the president … Continue reading
Reasonably funny: Link: https://youtu.be/tEpZzvSzYfI by … Continue reading
A February 23 article by Caroline Criado-Perez in The Guardian points out that across a vast range of things, from medical research to the design of tools, vehicles, and buildings, the implicit assumption has long been that the average person … Continue reading
The Anti-Defamation League has for decades has tracked anti-Semitic and other hate crimes in the United States. In a report released 2019 January 23 (summarized here) the organization's Center on Extremism compiles the latest statistics on murders committed by persons … Continue reading
From NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, a brief interview with John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight on HBO. (It and Game of Thrones are literally the only things I've subscribed to HBO to watch.) I hesitate … Continue reading
In 2009 a Russian tax attorney named Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death in prison, having been locked up for exposing corruption involving the Russian government and oligarchs, denied medical care, and tortured in a failed attempt to make him … Continue reading
The most massive living thing on Earth (that we know of anyway) is a huge tree with multiple trunks. It's also described as a group of trees that are clones of each other. (Things in the real world don't always … Continue reading