What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them?
The second part of that title just seems silly. I mean, it’s a time crystal. Who wouldn’t be obsessed. The crystals seem to exhibit a kind of perpetual motion with zero energy.
The rise in teen suicide, juvenile crime and child anxiety can be traced (at least in part) to the use of smartphones. I have heard child psychiatrists acquaint giving a smartphone to a child with giving them a heroin needle. So why would a loving parent get one for their kid? The answer, of course, is peer pressure, and a contest of wills between parent and child.
‘My Fellow Parents Have Betrayed Me’ How it feels when your allies in the fight for a phone-free childhood buy one for their fifth-grader.
The answer, must be legislation. Give parents a break and allow kids to only have “dumb phones” until eighth grade. Only if we do this as a culture, do we have a chance at saving out kids. Ohio just passed and is implementing a “no phones” in school policy. We will see how that works. If behavior and academics improve, then I see no reason to not implement a kid smart phone ban.
Mesmerizing.
What an ingenious idea.
After 3-week search, woman finds 2.3-carat diamond at Arkansas park
Saves a lot on jewelry for sure. The 2.3 carat stone will probably yield a gem (if cut) of only 1 to 1.5 carats and it will probably have flaws, but what a conversation piece.
Louis Rossmann is a consumer rights advocate. While he tends to be a bit colorful with his language, he is a native New Yorker after all, but he is pretty spot on with his opinions on “Right to Repair”.
This is an interesting idea…
Data generated by the U.S. government has been the gold standard of data for well over 100 years. Long before there was a “Data Age”. The world relies on it. Now this. As he continues to dismantle our government and indeed, our society, I am amazed that this is what the MAGA morons wanted.
How Trump is reshaping government data
I love this one…
White House now wants NASA’s woke satellite destroyed
The most anti-science administration in U.S. history.
RFK Jr. halts $500 million for mRNA vaccine research
Jesus wept.
Every time I go to Costco I see someone pushing a cart loaded with disposable plastic bottles of water. Why? Buy a filter for your tap and get the same result for a lot less. Why did people go out and buy all those fancy reusable water bottles if they going to buy disposable ones? Why can’t soda and beer come in deposit returnable bottles again?
If we are risking early death and dropping fertility rates, maybe some thing should be done. Like we did with with climate change. Oh, wait, I forgot, we haven’t addressed that either. Sometimes I forget that humans are stupid, selfish, wasteful and self destructive.
No, no, I mean NOTHING to see here.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
If you pretend it isn’t there, it will go away, right? I’m personally looking forward to when he rewrites the dictionary. If we don’t have the words…
What happens when Dweezil Zappa shows up to your 4th of July block party to jam with the teenagers? He shreds on both Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner“.
As the Epstein scandal refuses to go away, Trump is starting to fear that some of his fawning masses might find out he’s not a nice guy. So, how about some lies in exchange for a pardon?
The DOJ to Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Pardon me, do you mind lying and denying for Donald Trump?’
That must have gone well for her…
It also gets 45 mpg freeway, 35 city.
Papers please! Hope the sickos who voted for Trump are loving this.
Just what we needed, an American goon squad.
Big surprise, yet another federal agency is being dragged down by the most incompetent regime in American history.
In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency
Especially the annual Festival of Speed which just concluded last weekend. You don’t often see a vintage Cheetah doing a hill climb at full throttle.
With so many rentals in big cities owned by foreign investors who don’t care for the properties. Who knows?
Ohio Renters Need to Make $22.51 an Hour to Afford 2-Bedroom Apartment, New Report Shows
This is a HUGE problem.
Normally I would never post anything related to Buzzfeed, but it shows the lack of reporting on this. The thing is, Trump says crazy stuff so often, it isn’t news. He openly and brazenly lies, or says batsh*t crazy stuff, and his fans just lap it all up. Weird. Or as Trump might tweet, “Sad”.
He jumped from 24 miles up in 2012, when I was just 51 years old. But we should also remember that an Air Force officer named Joseph Kittinger jumped from 19.45 miles up, THE YEAR BEFORE I WAS BORN! He passed away in 2022 at the age of 94.
It should be mentioned that Joe was the technical consultant to Felix on his jump.
How do Trumpers keep swallowing this?
Donald Trump Says Obama, Ex-FBI Director James Comey ‘Made Up’ the Jeffrey Epstein Files
So a few high level Democrats invented a fake file to implicate Trump in the Epstein thing, then did not release it when he ran for President, then did not release it again when he ran for President again? Jeeze, these red hats are morons if they buy that. Remember, Epstein said in an interview that he was Trump’s closest friend. They were neighbors, he was a member of Trump’s Mar-a-lago, he had fourteen different contact numbers for Trump in his infamous “little black book”. And, of course, he introduced Trump to Melania. Supposedly they were first intimate on Epstein’s private plane, upon which Trump was a frequent flyer. In fact, no one is as associated with Epstein as much as Trump except for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell whom Trump wished “all the best”.
Hmmmmm. Wonder why Trump doesn’t want to release the files?
Update: Mike Johnson Says GOP Should Put “Everything Out There” on Epstein, Then Votes No to Release Epstein Info (WARNING PAYWALL)
Seems Speaker Johnson was all in, as was Majorie Taylor Greene, until Trump had a private word with them. Now they don’t want the files released. Wonder why?
Update: Sure, not guilty at all… Trump Threatened Legal Action to Block Publication of Embarrassing WSJ Jeffrey Epstein Story
Really, not guilty! Honest Injun.
(Two examples of modern Republicans inability to understand logic)
I have friends who have evolving opinions on climate change. Long ago, their opinion was “It’s a hoax”, because a political pundit they liked told them so. I think that because they didn’t seem to have any convincing evidence for their opinion. I should mention that these friends aren’t of limited intelligence. These are intelligent, educated men. Their opinion then evolved to, “Maybe it’s real, but it’s stopping an ice age, and that would be worse.” Then, “Just because it’s getting warmer, doesn’t mean it’s because of carbon emissions.” And finally, “Okay maybe, but China and India aren’t doing anything so why should we?” That year China became the world leader in Solar cells and it had already been leading in batteries. All their arguments were designed to allow them to vote for the party they wanted without feeling that maybe they were making a mistake.
Okay this guy is a terrible public speaker, but I think he has it right.
Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods
Short answer: probably not. While the cuts to NWS were done poorly, alerts went out in time. And since it was emergency conditions, a full compliment of staff was there. However, Trump’s cuts don’t get a full pass, more on that later. So what happened? Well, not many people in a known flash flood area had NWS radios. These radios are designed to come on and broadcast a warning to emergency areas even when they are turned off. They were designed after devastating flash floods in Texas in the 1980’s. (See Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Texas Flood”) Not having one might be forgivable for the average citizen perhaps, but not for a kids’ camp. Heck, it’s 2025, why didn’t they have a satellite phone since they were in a remote area with poor cell coverage? You had elementary school kids for God’s sake! IN A KNOWN FLASH FLOOD ZONE, no less! Water has to go somewhere when it rains, you should know where it goes in your area. That’s common sense. I sense a LOT of nasty lawsuits coming.
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Two men whose opinions I tend to agree with more than just about anyone else.
How the Trump tax bill could help China win at A.I.
It should be noted that Ohio’s corrupt Republican legislature has axed enough solar projects in the last five years to have powered all of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. All at the behest of the fossil fuel industry.