American Anti-Government sentiment
Apr 3, 2022
Rather than writing much here, I want to refer you to this perceptive article by Ezra Klein. Klein’s two concluding paragraphs should be enough to
Proof that the Earth’s Climate is Not Changing
Apr 2, 2022
As everyone knows, we Republicans don’t believe facts. So I was very happy when I found this beautiful visualization of monthly global temperature
Our Poor Kitchen
Apr 2, 2022
We saw the water running out and immediately started mopping up the water with all our house’s towels: Washing machines drain their water
The NY Times has a Telegram channel
Mar 16, 2022
If you’re woke like me, you’ve probably read a lot about the Telegram messaging app. I downloaded it some time ago and then forgot about it until
Amazon loses my smile
Mar 16, 2022
When Amazon first introduced its Smile feature, I would start each shopping session by changing the URL from www.amazon.com to smile.amazon.com and
History versus the UNC Press fire of 1990
Mar 16, 2022
If future historians are well designed and supplied with sufficient training data, including facial recognition data, they might catch the error in
J’ai pensé à ce passage du livre « La septième fonction du langage » de Laurent Binet
Feb 18, 2022
Pour aucune raison particulière, je me suis souvenu hier d’un scene qui ma fait rigoler: À l’université de Vincennes, pour accéder aux salles de
Sufism in Tunisia
Feb 13, 2022
I’ve found Christian Science Monitor stories to be paywalled at times, but I was able to read the entirety of these two stories. In Tunis, artisans
Remembering Mark Grandy
Feb 2, 2022
Mark Grandy I grew up on Walnut Street in Berkeley, about a block and a half up a hill from the flatlands where Live Oak Park was located.
2022-02-01 OLLI Bottleneck
Feb 1, 2022
Dear Howard, I’ve been thinking about how difficult it is, certainly for me, to obtain and organize resources for my OLLI courses. For people like
Comparing Gafsa and Chapel Hill
Jan 23, 2022
Gafsa is only about 100 miles south of Chapel Hill! Chapel Hill, NC: 35.9132,-79.055844 Gafsa, Tunisia: 34.43114,8.775656 The north-south distance
Se oriente, rapaz
Jan 12, 2022
En lisant À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, on croise un passage où le narrateur décrit le clocher de l’église de Saint-Hilaire dans
Feeling nostalgic because of a COVID test
Dec 25, 2021
We had to take at-home COVID tests yesterday before going to the home of some very dear friends for an Xmas Eve get-together. This first image shows
Fun misunderstandings
Dec 18, 2021
I like this one because it kind of makes sense. maybe…
Our Living Contradiction
Nov 21, 2021
politics
The November 14, 2021 issue of the New York Times Magazine contains an article by Jake Silverstein entitled A Nation of Argument. (If you follow the
Genetic Geneology
Nov 20, 2021
identity
The November 22, 2021 Issue of The New Yorker has an article entitled How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer by Raffi Khatchadourian. In the
PANCHO LÓPEZ
Nov 8, 2021
In the summer between my junior and senior years in high school (I think), the father of my best friend, Mark (“Gruesome”) Grandy, found us jobs
Burying Google Fiber on Bartram Drive
Oct 21, 2021
This is the tool used to punch holes in the earth for the orange conduit that will hold our Google Fiber. It’s kind of like an autonomous
In a setback for Apple, the European Union seeks a common charger for all phones
Sep 24, 2021
Today’s New York Times reports The European Union unveiled plans on Thursday to make USB-C connectors the standard charging port for all
Thinking that we think independently
Jul 12, 2021
Posted by a friend on Facebook: It’s interesting that the poster calls this a “random thought” when this is all over social media and even MSM
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