I have lived a life of great fortune. Starting with picking a great set of parents, being born white, and American, I just kept getting lucky as opportunity spread itself before me like a red carpet. I would have had to be a real loser to fail.
This is a really lovely blues-tinged cover, delivered with passion.
Back in the 50’s and 60’s, there were photographs of “flying saucers” that were considered to be non-fake because of the presumed difficulty of faking film.
This crossed my radar screen sensor fusion network thanks to the folks at TWIV. What does it have to do with virology? Nothing!
Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth died Monday, leaving behind one of the best children’s books, ever.
This is one that, I admit, never occurred to me, either. The fact that it did not is profoundly embarrassing. Ready for a little F-35 bashing?
Two more memes.
This fascinating tidbit was mentioned in an aside on TWIV. Even their digressions are often mind-blowing, and teach fundamental scientific thinking. I mentally bookmarked it under “more research” and “not miserably depressing” and started digging.
Parler is a security disaster in progress.
The radiation from the “elephant’s foot” slag-flow under the reactor at Chernobyl would flat-out kill a human in about 5 minutes. Two minutes’ exposure would be a death sentence.