April 25, 2018
April 24, 2018
Kate Middleton’s ‘luxury’ birth cost less than the average U.S. birth. And they say the US has the best medical system in the world. As nearly always, though, “they” are a bunch of idiots.
Waffle House shooter Travis Reinking should not have had the AR-15 he used. And neither should anyone else.
April 23, 2018
April 22, 2018
April 21, 2018
Tiny krill appear to mix up the ocean. They are the ocean’s kriller app.
Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality? I rethink reality every day.
April 20, 2018
A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It’s a catastrophe. People are about to find out that the larger biosphere they think doesn’t matter, matters. Even a lot of liberals are convinced it’s irrelevant.
Don’t expect Apple to combine macOS and iOS anytime soon. That would mean I could no longer use MacOS so good on Tim Cook for not killing anything useful of Apple’s right away.
Palantir Knows Everything About You. Palantir makes Facebook look like small potatoes.
April 19, 2018
Restaurant noise levels are climbing. Here’s how to fight back. I will never understand the loud restaurant trend. A friend and I once were in a restaurant where we were literally shouting to one another to be heard, and couldn’t. Poor design, and I never return to those restaurants.
April 18, 2018
Women Who Watched “The X-Files” Pursued More Careers In STEM. Doesn’t help that photo of Gillian Anderson is so Photoshopped that she doesn’t even look human.
Someone’s Making Handmaid’s Tale-Inspired Lingerie Which Seems Like a Very Bad Idea Indeed. There have been worse ideas, but I am hard-pressed to think of them.
Mary Tyler Moore was the first woman on a sitcom to wear pants. And people tell me art and entertainment doesn’t matter and is irrelevant.
Gotta Keep Baby Formula Behind the Counter. Yet he can’t seem to connect this with all the economic fictions and claptrap he posts.
April 17, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Like Personal Privacy. And that’s a bit of an understatement.
Seven Days of Heroin. This is what an epidemic looks like. Pulitzer Prize winner.
April 16, 2018
April 15, 2018
Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing? The problem is that generations are a thing, it’s just that scientists do as they often do — define something in a way that no one else ever defines it, then declare it does not exist.
April 14, 2018
Majority of Americans—Including 74% of Democrats—Now Support Single-Payer. Something something BernieBros.
Zillow Launches Home-Flipping Program in Phoenix and Las Vegas. Well, that is a good sign. Like financial crises? Just wait a bit.
Why Are Grad Students Depressed? Grad school, especially in N. America, takes way too long. Should be 2-4 years at most, not 5-12.