Also brilliant…😀

Not a movie, but the series Cosmos.

“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” -Carl Sagan

Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.

Great story about the US border: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5536953/line-fence-wall

It is possible, but very unlikely. Maybe two bh merge that has exactly opposite angular momentum.

City of heroes is still available for free and is a lot of fun. Pre-WOW but the graphics are decent. A great community too.

I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)

City of Heroes/Villains https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/

Some public water naturally has flouride in it without adding it. IIRC it was high flouride well water in Colorado that revealed its benefits You can also use flouride rinses or just not rinse after brushing. This doesn’t help kids though, which as I understand it are the primary beneficiaries of flouride in waterr.

Of course it is, along with the Administration ignoring a judge’s order. The point is that this DOJ will not prosecute it. AG Bondi had made that clear.

Exactly who are you thinking would bring criminal charges? The DOJ certainly won’t. His family might get some sort of civil judgement. Possibly a civil rights case filed with a state?

That is one reason to do tariffs. However, as someone who’s consulted in a variety of industries, it’s stupid to do non-targeted tariffs like this. There’s no way this is going to rebuild industry on shore in the US, exactly as you say. That takes years or decades to even build up an infrastructure and a supply chain, not to mention that, at least recently, we’ve had low unemployment rates and no one to work the jobs anyway.

The CHIPS act was a better way to do it. If you believe you need to re-onshore an industry, then give multiple years’ warning before implementing tariffs and provide support for redeploying domestic production capacity. However, for some strange reason, the Republicans don’t like that act.

I think your general point may be correct, but remember that tariffed countries don’t pay anything, it is the US importers that pay and pass that along to US consumers.

The guy behind Wing Commander (and my favorite game of all time, Privateer) has a mission based space flight game out next year. You can see the first hour of gameplay here: https://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk

Keep in mind, cutscenes are in-engine not pre-rendered.

As a person who grows a few Venus flytraps, the traps exude a sweet nectar along the inner upper edge. Flies another insects are attracted to that, and the color red, eat some nectar, hit the trigger hairs, the leaves snap shut in a few microseconds, and they are trapped. They’re struggles after that are necessary for the leaf to fully close and form the hermetic stomach for digestion.

They’re eating the doges!

Had a print of this in my house growing up. It looks like my dad.

Which is why I am happy to be a metallurgical engineer who can blacksmith…

It’s real! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins

Widdershins. It means counter to the sun’s direction , and was seen as inauspicious. Counter-clockwise, before clocks.