This was about a simple feature on a new smart dumbphone that I am pretty amped about… the phone in general, as well as what it means in general. $60 a month savings, and not losing a thing from modern (more…)
A quick thought on The Expanse vs Battlestar Galactica.
If you like physics… that alone is enough to start The Expanse. I’m in my little pandemic bubble and echo chamber, so I’ve been watching this show with jaw-dropped amazement, and isolated such that I (more…)
“Remember the Whigs, Larry?” or the march towards equality, and where we lost it along the way…
A non-sequitur about Trump’s America, and where we’re heading. This is from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. Sounds like Trump’s GOP: “Remember the Whigs, Larry? They (more…)
Ignore this, or “the community I engaged”.
I did this out of bored curiosity. I am happy to see my contributions range over so many subreddits. I really only hang out in a specific few, so this is surprising. I know it means legitimately nothing (more…)
Astronomy, Cosmology, & Physics round up, November 2019: Hubble Constant mystery, Moments before the Big Bang, Universe connected by giant structures, Dinosaurs on the other side of the galaxy, Starlink space light pollution, flat or spherical universe?
The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger: Scientists have found a discrepancy in estimates for the rate of expansion of the universe. Why is this and what does it mean? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/02/hubble-constant-mystery-that-keeps-getting-bigger-estimate-rate-expansion-universe-cosmology-cepheid We (more…)
REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION: Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn
(this was in the LA Weekly. not many people read the LA Weekly. just about as many people as my blog.) — Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn THURSDAY, (more…)
A New World of rationalism, religion, and extremism; Never the ‘tween shall meet.
Future of human race will depend on how we're able to deal w/extremism, cultism, irrationalism, mental illness,& the like.All tied together. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) April 17, 2015 Understand (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
Heatherwick Studio is growing plants for Bombay Sapphire’s gin, and it’s beautiful.
Fascinating, and functional. Heatherwick Studio’s master plan proposed the creation of two new glasshouses to grow specimens of the 10 exotic plant species used in the Bombay Sapphire distillation process. (more…)
It’s not about the right or left. It’s about extremism, and boy, you can’t get anyone talking about that.
It seems unbelievable to me that every time a SJW video goes viral, you have people on the right saying “SEE? The far left are the intolerant, want you to believe like they do; they are fascists”. Then (more…)