Richard

It might also be speculation, hoping that an even bigger fool comes along who is willing to pay even more.

I agree with Apocryphal that we cannot make any assumptions about who or what might be running a simulation, or what the response would be were we to figure it out. Humans are sentient and conscious whether we are simulated or not. If you want some …

The original changed the way I looked at clouds forever. This, to me, is a sign of true art. The other thing I recall was Mad Magazine's brilliant satire of the monolith:

No, not Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road. And actually, it was yesterday. On August 8, 1969, Iain Macmillan shot what became possibly the single most iconic Beatle photo ever, the album cover for Abbey Road. Tourists regularly go to the same spot for …

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/ The Hopkins study has been widely criticized for a number of reasons, in part because it did not distinguish inevitable …

Followup: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/world/europe/franky-zapata-hoverboard-uk-france.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_MBE_p_20190805&section=whatElse?campaign_id=51&instance_id=11415&segment_id=15876&user_id=19b39e981f5e03bce64aae52c …

Just to save others time, here are the average 48hr US death figures NdGT posted: > 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handguns I'd suggest that another way to view this that we ought to be …

Do you have a link to what he posted?

I recently heard neuroscientist Antonio Damasio interviewed on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast and was intrigued by his evolutionary approach to the development of mind and consciousness. He claims that consciousness arises from self, which in …

There's very little chance that Johnson will avoid a no-deal conclusion, partly because there's little reason to think he wants to. John Oliver featured him in the main segment yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k

That could serve as a valuable wake-up call. Our monitoring needs improvement and our response capability is theoretical, not operational. This seems like one problem we could actually solve without spending a fortune or upsetting any power elites. …

From the how did we ever live without this department: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/19/babys-first-smart-diaper-pampers-takes-wearables-whole-new-level/?utm_term=.5fe885a15ef1

One thing I've learned as I have gotten older is to use hexadecimal (base 16) for my age. That makes me 48.

> I wonder what the consensus is among the general population? A study from Aachen University in Germany concluded that the majority of YouTube videos on the subject do not agree with the scientific consensus, as represented in the UN's IPCC …

Well, it's certainly going to get attention, but I would hope that it doesn't stand a chance of becoming a regular sales channel. One of them might be cute, but imagine a parking lot full of trucks from Amazon, Wal Mart, Target, CVS, and two dozen …

Woo hoo--Commando Cody at last! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjFSQvwZzQ

Not sure how I missed this thread earlier. In rough order: Miami Vice Star Trek Next Generation Luther / The Wire (tie)

I looked at the Nature article but it was way over my head. It's an interesting approach, but I wonder what the signal to noise ratio is. I find it completely understandable that it can come up with some suggestions that have never occurred to us …

Final US 2 Holland 0 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/sports/soccer/usa-vs-netherlands-score.html .

If a new subject does not appear in All, how are we supposed to know it even exists or follow it? I find it confusing that All doesn't include everything.

That was a fascinating read, Victoria, thanks. I wonder how long it will be before rising insurance costs put a damper on the market for coastal property. Banks too might start to worry about long-term mortgages. Somehow I doubt that smiling real …

I think the consensus is that climate change will lead to an increase in the number of extreme weather events. This certainly qualifies as an extreme event, but by itself does not prove anything. The evidence of climate change is overwhelming …

Thanks for the link--it reminded me of the monumental irony when Amazon deleted all copies of Orwell's 1984 from its customers' Kindles. I guess I don't understand business. I mean, I can understand that if the ebooks store wasn't making money …

As announced in April, tomorrow Microsoft will shut down the servers for their digital rights management (DRM) encumbered ebook store. Every book sold by them will become unreadable. Customers will be offered refunds, I don't know whether their …

Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs