11.09.2024

We can wait

And We're Off ... Betting Sites Launch 2028 Presidential Odds

Many sites favor Vice President-elect JD Vance—Bookies.com oddsmaker Adam Thompson gives Vance a 40 percent chance of being elected in four years. According to SportsBettingDime's William Hill, Vance has a 25 percent chance.

 No odds posted on never having to have another one.

11.07.2024

Another sure thing bites the dust

Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds

A new peer-reviewed study led by Sydney-based researchers Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta has found that the time it would take for a typing monkey to replicate Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems would be longer than the lifespan of our universe.

Not to mention all the monkeys are working for AI startups now. (Wait, you thought it was computers writing all that stuff?)

 

11.06.2024

And in other election news…

2 adorable pygmy hippos pitted against each other in cuteness contest

“Moo Deng? Who deng?” the Scottish zoo playfully posted Monday on the social media platform X as it introduced its infant hippo to the world.

 

11.04.2024

The attack of the whiskey fungus

‘Whiskey Fungus’ Is Dividing a Maine Resort Town—and Rankling Alcohol Giants

For the past two years, battle lines have been drawn in this coastal town of some 13,000 people. In one camp is a family-owned business—Wiggly Bridge Distillery—which wants to age its whiskey for longer in hopes of improving its flavor. In the other are hundreds of residents worried about the implications of whiskey fungus, in which ethanol vapors turbocharge a species of fungus called Baudoinia, leaving black stains on buildings and plants.

Wiggly Bridge. Really.