First comes the dating. Things are looking good. She’s — if not exactly funny — someone who appreciates your brand of humor. You kiss a lot. It’s nice. Making out never seemed before like a good substitute for sex, but this time’s different. You hold hands as you walk down the street. Older people smile […]

haiku #1: “the honda accord” Machine from Japan comes in; social waves part to embrace its sharp verve haiku #2: “the subaru crosstrek” Just one factory Japan’s hidden gem stands out Snow drive meant for North haiku #3: “the supercar” Greg starts with Crosstrek Then shifts to a supercar With wheels like fire

Hello, Dark Sportsters. It is the displeased video image of your Commander here, Greg Nikolic: The brutal men who killed Trotsky in Mexico after his years on the run were rabid rats. They probably didn’t care much for Communism. What they cared for was being part of a structure of power that rewarded them well […]

Rwandan-backed military group M23 is making inroads into Congo’s territory, taking the city of Goma in a strategic coup. Eastern Congo is home to some of the richest minerals on Earth. This African region, dug at by hand in primitive conditions, produces gold and — particularly — coltan, a tech-friendly material that goes into a […]

Fate. Does it really exist? There are 2 very similar, though not precisely exact and overlapping, words in the English language for a foreordained present: destiny and fate. Fate is the grimmer one, although it also has overtones of normalized seriousness. Destiny is more lite and avoidable. Fate grabs you by the cojones and doesn’t […]

It was a noble effort by Premier Doug Ford: build 1.5 million new homes by 2031. But they’ve already fallen short of yearly requirements to meet that target. With 71,800 housing starts being forecast for this year, the province is thousands of homes short of what it needs to make 1.5 million homes a reality. […]

The African-American commander of the space station in Deep Space 9 is boring as paint drying on the wall. Zero charisma. Zero. Warren Buffett’s retiring at age 95 with the stock market at historic highs. He has $300B in cash parked in U.S. treasuries and knows that by the time the stock market starts yielding […]

So there’s this baby, see? And he has a rare genetic ailment, a one-in-a-million kinda thing. And yet S C I E N C E comes along and saves his ass… how? By changing a letter in his genetic coding across the cells of his body. And it worked. The defective little tyke was given […]

Yesterday’s article in USA Today was about the manufacture of replicant Tyrannosaurus Rex skin from ancient protein samples to make new leather: The Organoid Company is creating a T-Rex protein by using fragments of the T-Rex collagen protein from fossils, the companies said in a statement to USA TODAY. “An important distinction is that (the […]

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” — Jean Baudrillard SoftBank Group is a company that invests in other companies, particularly in technology. They are based in Japan. The thing to note about SoftBank is their major investment in a chatbot “AI” software maker. They have invested billions […]