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As noted in this story at Nature , gene editing by CRISPR on human embryos is still not a thing, basically because it's too clumsy a tec...

Here, I'll gift an article from the New York Times about the (rather faddish) attention that has been given to the vagus nerve on soci...

 

Gee, I would not have guessed that it is now over a year since I had a fairly lengthy post about the confusing issue of the difference betw...

From the Oscars today, and a little movie from 1984: Incidentally, Stephen Colbert did a protracted interview with Steven Spielberg (alone, ...

The Washington Post has another deep dive into the Dominion defamation evidence - communications between Fox management, some of whom former...

I enjoyed George Monbiot's take down of Russell Brand (and Rogan and Greenwald) both in The Guardian and on Twitter.   (I also learned ...

I'm having a hard time getting around to writing up a holiday report on Hanoi and nearby areas, but before then, I will note one minor o...

I didn't know anything about this:   The Malian discovery was vivid evidence for what a small group of scientists, studying hints from ...

From a commentary piece at Nature: Last year, around two-thirds of Pakistan was affected by widespread flash flooding, with more than 1,500 ...

I hadn't fully appreciated how close in time Carlson's private attacks on Trump were aligned with going on TV and defending him:  

....Or are they just too dumb to admit they're the willing victims of the Murdoch empire's fully exposed mantra "making money i...

So, the New York Times reports that Alan Alda asked ChatGPT to write a scene from MASH for him and former co-star Mike Farrell to perform.  ...

For the first time in my life, I have bought a pair of (leather) loafer style shoes, and wore them to work. Feels oddly like wearing slipper...

Why hasn't some Pentagon official been asked this at some congressional hearing?   Or have they?   I mean, my general impression from th...

I am still finding it pretty incredible how, when it comes to transgender issues, there are two extreme polarised views that both really ha...

This seems really odd, and more like something you would expect from a News Corpse editor: That's the "headline" for a post by...

Last year, when I took a short holiday to Singapore, I bought at Kinokuniya (the terrific bookstore in the Takashimaya building in Orchard R...

Samantha Maiden writes about the government's modest superannuation change: A majority of voters have backed Anthony Albanese’s controv...

What, I go away for a week or so, and when I return my home state has gone all Euro tolerant on drug use?   Well, not exactly, according to ...