Fish your excitement out of the pond not for distant coding gibberish or ethereal AI battles, but for solid-life haul extenders: companies like Calico Labs, backed by Google hypothesizing just as actively in ending death’s red tape (a wild thought once recounted only in sci-fis). Shatterin...
– really got going with the last two of the main set:BadlandsandThunder Road. And it continued for much of the encore, notablyBorn to Run(of course) andDancing in the Dark(though Jon always boycotts that one, for reasons we still don’t understand!). There were the usual heartfelt t...
to believe that ‘past, present and future’ were “a stubbornly persistent illusion“as he put it and he was serious enough about this to mention it in a latter of soi-disant sympathy to the widow of one of Einstein’s longest friends, Besso, on the event of the latter’s death. No...
Major Players Just Hunting for the Holy Grail If Quantum Computing is the treasure map, who’s on this treasure hunt? Apart from the inevitable mentions of Google and Amazon scaling fresh peaks, we have IBM hosting Quantum Experience of brimming excitement, Rigetti smelting magic in the quantum...
“Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 ASV) “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,...
The last thing the US needs is“Enlist”seed genetically engineered to be resistant to both Roundup and 2-4-D, leading to the inevitable higher level of both these herbicides in our food. The Addictive Process Though Monsanto denounces the studies cited by the WHO as “inconclusive”, it do...
Once everyone in the family plot accepted the fact that Jefferson was stuck here, and Cheryl somewhere else, for all eternity, death went on. Aunt Adelaide stopped fussing, and Jefferson finally got his longed-for rest. All in all, death could be interesting. Jefferson didn’t sleep all th...
There are a number of obscurities in this text, but Darwin clearly introduces the concept of a “natural means of selection” [11: 4, 7] different from “selection by death”. This special mode of selection is presented as a struggle of the males for the possession of the females, founde...
I mean, I guess this is a good news/bad news situation: On the one hand, 99.9% of our sins can and will be forgiven. So that’s cool. But then there’s the small matter of an “eternal,” unforgivable sin. Kinda sounds like a setup for inevitable failure. Like, “you can eat ...
The death of the driver has the women and their young hostage seek refuge at an isolated home, but the family living there is as dysfunctional and dangerous as the women themselves. I rate this 4 out of 5 meows. 26 – Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) A retelling of Edgar Allan Poe...