Category Archives: Science

Owls and Lemmings – shared last meals

Posted on June 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers It is of course a first-world conceit and problematic to talk about last meals on earth when some have trouble getting daily meals at all. OTOH don’t we all like to speculate about penultimate pleasure, except … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony.  The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading →

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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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Never Trump should be Always Hillary

Posted on May 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Nate Silver wrote an extensive mea culpa that ostensibly ignored those media industry resources that ESPN had available to study Trump success. Nate’s omitting the multi-modal effects of looking at Trump’s celebrity media reputation and Q-scores as well as … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Lizards Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Deep Look: Male side-blotched lizards have more than one way to get the girl. Orange males are bullies. Yellows are sneaks. Blues team … Continue reading →

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Why yes, that is an equation in my pocket, and no, I’m not happy to sit next to you!

Posted on May 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Use a differential equation, get profiled… Pasta sauce is called “gravy” in South Philly but if you look too “foreign” and know some math, you could get in trouble. Gonna be a tough time at the … Continue reading →

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Revisionist Histories and a return of Glass-Steagell

Posted on May 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Perhaps Donald Trump has proven that it takes a village idiot to triangulate ten garlic bulbs and take puma mountain by strategy. Or despite hip-hop musicals about Alexander Hamilton, will the eventual POTUS think about central banking as part of … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Flamingo Flamenco

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. Sorry about that, there will be no “human interest news” today, instead the topic is for the birds.  😉 From BBC Earth:  “There are six … Continue reading →

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Lookout Wimmins iz in your can

Posted on April 23, 2016 by ann li-summers

    By ann summers Family Restrooms have been commonplace for many public institutions and darned if defending family values and traditional marriage has come under attack by well, non-traditional families, darn those sister-wives, extended families, single parents, and orphans.   There … Continue reading →

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