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Starting the Super Speed series with the first Super Speed
This is the first Super Speed Gillette offered in the 1940s—the one in the photo has an unnotched center post. (A notch was added fairly soon to make it easier to pull the blade from the dispenser.)...
View ArticleThe primary military impulse is to hide problems: Concussions in the military...
The NY Times has an interesting story about how common concussions are as a result of the requirement that first-year students at the military academies take boxing. It’s not surprising that boxing...
View ArticleNY Times breathlessly reports something that did not happen
A crusty Down Easter made a purchase at a hardware store and was staring hard at the change he was given. The clerk asked, “That’s the correct change, isn’t it?” The grudging reply was “Just barely.” I...
View ArticleCogent comment from Paul Krugman on proposed GOP tax plans
Krugman in his blog: . . . I do want to weigh in for a minute on Donald Trump’s tax plan — which would, surprise, lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit. That’s in contrast to...
View ArticleWall Street in action: A big hand for the free market
Pam Martens and Russ Martens write in Wall Street on Parade: Stocks were variously spiking and tanking from moment to moment in early morning trade and much of the problem resides in one eight letter...
View ArticleWomen in sports and social media
A very interesting article that is also, I think, very important to read. Julie DiCaro reports in Sports Illustrated: Editor’s Note: The following contains offensive, vulgar language used to address an...
View ArticleMadam Secretary
This series, with Téa Leoni as the eponymous character and also as a producer, has got me hooked. One thing I like about it (aside from the various plot twists and turns and nice interlacing of...
View ArticleThe effects of not governing (in this case by the GOP Congress)
James Fallows has an excellent column in the Atlantic: Here’s another challenge for the press — and members of the American public, and people in the rest of the world affected by U.S. debates — in...
View ArticleJust a few of Radley Balko’s afternoon links about daily life in the US
A few links from Balko’s Washington Post column, which has more: College student’s powdered sugar drink somehow tests positive for cocaine. Add this to the running list of things that police field...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Gremlin Martin Shkreli Is Nothing Compared to the TPP
Read about what Obama wants passed.
View ArticleAmerican corporations laud the idea of “loyalty,” and then this
Julia Preston reports in the NY Times: When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies...
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A red-tipped Rocket and Neat Lathering™
In yesterday’s post and the comments that followed I figured out that loading in the brush is a thing—something that repays mindful attention—so today I selected another soap sold in full (rather than...
View ArticleThe scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?...
As scientists understand better what happens from our dietary choices, those creating the US government’s dietary guidelines ignore the findings. Nina Teicholz reports in the British Medical Journal...
View ArticleIf we have ended our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, why are we still bombing...
Bombing runs do not indicate a war is over. Quite the contrary. Glenn Greenwald discusses this contradiction (“The wars are over” and “We’re doing bombing runs”) in detail.
View ArticleExtremely cool on-line outliner
Ever since Grandview passed from the scene, I’ve been searching for an equivalent outliner. They are damned hard to find, but today’s Cool Tools discusses Workflowy, which really does seem excellent....
View ArticleWhen cops choose empathy
A very interesting New Yorker article by Jamil Zaki, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University: About four years ago, in a city park in western Washington State, Joe Winters...
View ArticleA New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
John Pavlus has an extremely interesting article in Quanta on efforts to understand just how difficult it is to compute certain things: At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s...
View ArticleDishonest Prosecutors, Lots of Them
The editorial board of the NY Times: Prosecutors who bend or even break the rules to win a conviction almost never face any punishment. But even given lax controls, the blatant and systemic misconduct...
View ArticleThe decline and fall of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution
The courts find the Bill of Rights just too much trouble. Radley Balko gives examples at the link, and concludes: . . . So if you’re a cop who wants to search a home without a warrant, simply knock on...
View ArticleMedical Weed Is Safe, Longest Ever Study on Managing Pain with Pot Finds
Jordan Pearson reports at Motherboard: The results from the first and longest study ever conducted on medicinal cannabis use for chronic pain management are finally in: medical pot is safe to use....
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