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Herewith some passages from " Less is Enough " - an excerpt in Harper's Magazine from the foreword to an upcoming republicati...

I have been a State Farm customer for 60+ years, ever since my first car and apartment.  Recently I've noticed a change in their billing...

Lots of interesting stuff presented during the Bloomberg pre-market "Surveillance" progeram this moning.  Jonathan Ferro commented...

Third Place, Conservation Hope. A male white-spotted pufferfish creates an intricate spawning nest in the sand. The fish carefully shapes a t...

A time-tagged list of the many hundreds of sources for these movie clips is available at the Sleepy Skunk tumblr page.  When I view these r...

What do we call this?  Coincidence?  Foreshadowing? Relevant discussion re Sinclair Lewis' writing and modern politics , with a hat tip ...

Trump stated that the new uniforms were inspired by " Starship Troopers " uniforms.  But the film, based on the classic Robert A. ...

Today while on a butterfly hike at Badger Prairie County Park (Verona, Wisconsin) I encountered Rosie the Rock Snake.  This was clearly a c...

An Astronomy Photo of the Day , from NASA.

How do I get to be 80+ years old and not know basic facts about nature?  This week I learned that dragonflies migrate as far as some birds a...

I didn't know this creature existed.  Saw it mentioned recently and had to go back to a 2019 article by Ed Yong in The Atlantic for an ...

Have I not reviewed this movie before?  I thought I must have, but this week after seeing the above trailer on Facebook I looked for my blog...

"Reawakening" is a remarkably well-performed movie.  Jared Harris and Juliet Stevenson portray a British couple whose 14-year old ...

As reported by The Guardian : A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, af...