8.24.2019
But maybe still some left for breakfast
Chicago beat New York to open a pizza museum. Now it's closing. - Chicago Tribune
"At some point, I'm going to do a pepperoni exhibit," he said. "I don't know what the right vehicle for that is."
8.23.2019
I'm all for this…when can we start?
Inverse: Airplanes: A Staggering Statistic in Air Pollution by 2050 Is Predicted
[What if] Every person could be allocated a maximum number of "flight kilometers" each year. This allowance would increase the longer a person abstained from flying.…Anyone not traveling could exchange their flight kilometers for money,
Read in Inverse: https://apple.news/AbWRTtrfSS42BVfl3AT5WgA
On Cicero being Cicero
Column: Charming Cicero: We don't want no subpoenas nobody sent - Chicago Tribune
Chicago was once compared to a lovely woman with a broken nose. But where does that leave the neighboring town of Cicero?
Yeah take that you spoilsports
In 1939, the University of Chicago made one of college football's boldest plays: It quit. - The Washington Post
In a world without Twitter, a University of Chicago alumnus, Class of 1912, assured the Tribune — by telegraph! — that the board of trustees' 32-0 decision to kill the decorated program "ignores the bill of rights and sincerely flatters both Stalin and Hitler"
8.22.2019
No cigar, but close
Trump joked that US should trade Puerto Rico for Greenland: NYT - Business Insider
The Danes might not want to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland but if they're in a Caribbean mood they might be interested in having their Danish West Indies back. The islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands, were sold to the U.S. by, yes, Denmark, in 1917.
Personally I'd vote for keeping the warm ones, but still…
At least we wouldn't have plastic straws to worry about any more
A Yellowstone supervolcano eruption could 'lead to human extinction'
And if you're not worried enough already, consider this:
The Federal Aviation Administration spends more than $7 billion each year on aviation safety compared to $22 million on volcano programs, "even though supervolcanoes, viewed over the longest of the long term, will kill far more people than plane crashes," he writes.
Whoa, take a deep breath, dude
Yes, Google is disrupting our democracy. But not in the way Trump thinks. - The Washington Post
Ultimately, we should remember that at its infancy, the Internet was funded by taxpayer money. As private corporations reap the spoils of this technological marvel…
Most of this article is pretty good in a mainstream academic way but "reaping the spoils"?
Speaking as someone who actually remembers the taxpayer-funded internet I can say with confidence those days are long gone forever. The modern internet and the technology behind it is, for better or worse, very much a privately financed operation. The government barely understands it.
8.20.2019
"Robotic shorts" sounds a little, well, something
These robotic shorts developed by Harvard scientists are designed to help you feel up to 12 pounds lighter while running - San Antonio Express-News
Back in the halcyon days of drive-in movies I drove by one outdoor screen with a sign advertising this bill:
Pardon My Sarong
And
Selected Shorts
(You can look up the sarong movie on IMDB.)
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