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In the summer of last year some news media took note of a sharp increase in murders in some major cities, such as Baltimore and Houston, since the start of the year, and they suggested crime was on the rise … Continue reading
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The most impressive special effect in the whole movie is in the first scene. Michael Douglas, who plays Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, turned 70 during filming, and he looks it. But the first scene is set in 1989, and … Continue reading
From a French YouTuber (VousTubant?), dialog from Friends dubbed over scenes from Game of Thrones with results that are reasonably funny. (Contains some mild Friends spoilers, but nothing I noticed for Game of Thrones.) Link: https://youtu.be/znFSPSc8cpw by … Continue reading
Here’s another interesting post from pediatrician and med school professor Aaron Carroll describing recent research published in JAMA involving a huge sample of Americans — almost everybody middle aged and older — based on data from the Social Security Administration … Continue reading
The future was better in the 1960s, at least in the popular imagination. We were going to get jetpacks and flying cars and robots and interplanetary travel. We’re too cynical for that now, though we do have a nice variety … 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
Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is the ultra-rich, eccentric, and reclusive founder and CEO of a Google-like corporation. He lives on a vast, isolated estate, accompanied only by a solitary servant who speaks no English. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), one of his many … Continue reading
Antibiotics are overused in many countries, including the U.S., in part because patients insist on them even when they have an illness, such as a viral illness, that can’t be helped by antibiotics. Doctors sometimes justify this to themselves as … 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
Alvaro Saumet and Lya Battle are a married couple who operate a large no-kill shelter for hundreds of stray dogs in Costa Rica. It’s called Territorio de Zaguates (roughly “Land of Mongrels”) where the dogs are spayed or neutered, given … Continue reading