# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1379 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1380 --- ## [Does Joe Biden have dementia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-joe-biden-have-dementia/947334)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-joe-biden-have-dementia/947334 "2021-08-02T09:15:28Z")
On another discussion board I frequent, I saw a discussion about whether or not Joe Biden is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The evidence they point to is various public appearances during which he seems to … --- ## [B&W video in mid 70s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-w-video-in-mid-70s/947787)
**Author:** [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-w-video-in-mid-70s/947787 "2021-08-02T08:24:34Z")
I love this Skynyrd concert recording from 1976. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks to me like video rather than film. If so, why were people still using black and white video in 1976? I’m pretty sure that by then all… --- ## [Spackling the Crack of Dawn- An Early MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spackling-the-crack-of-dawn-an-early-mmp/947302)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 269\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spackling-the-crack-of-dawn-an-early-mmp/947302 "2021-08-02T06:41:59Z")
Early to rise, and early to bed makes a man healthy, but socially dead - Yakko Warner I’m up, caffeinated, and sheveled. And red will be shortly. Any other early birds here? You sound like some of the bosses I’ve ha… --- ## [When I die, someone's got to do it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-someones-got-to-do-it/947801)
**Author:** [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-someones-got-to-do-it/947801 "2021-08-02T06:09:47Z")
Being a responsible (partly) adult (by calendar) I have a Trust and a Will. Yay me–someone gets my stuff when I die. They can avoid probate for the most part and they have to divide everything up according to my wishes. … --- ## [Why do spam emails always have purposely mis-spelled words in the subject?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-spam-emails-always-have-purposely-mis-spelled-words-in-the-subject/932215)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-spam-emails-always-have-purposely-mis-spelled-words-in-the-subject/932215 "2021-08-02T03:36:24Z")
At least that’s the way it seems. That they are spam is usually pretty obvious anyway, they often refer to things I don’t have (Apple products, McAfee, Amazon Prime, etc.) and of course the actual sending address is a g… --- ## [Rasgulla (sweet Bengali dumpling)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rasgulla-sweet-bengali-dumpling/947735)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rasgulla-sweet-bengali-dumpling/947735 "2021-08-02T03:22:54Z")
What should be the texture of Rasgulla? It’s traditionally made from a course-ground flour, but how does it turn out in the dumpling? (Or the Odisha version, if anyone knows enough to tell the difference) --- ## [Prolotherapy - anyone here tried it? Success?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prolotherapy-anyone-here-tried-it-success/947681)
**Author:** [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prolotherapy-anyone-here-tried-it-success/947681 "2021-08-02T02:45:20Z")
My guy hurt, sprained whatever, his Achilles tendon. We’ve seen an orthopedist, there’s no break or anything. He gave him prednisone, but my friend mentioned prolotherapy. Her son was an athlete and he had these treatmen… --- ## [Clear, as crystal = bus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-as-crystal-bus/947790)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clear-as-crystal-bus/947790 "2021-08-02T02:39:19Z")
I’m stumped. How does “bus” answer last weeks NYT crossword clue “clear, as crystal”? BU’s? B-US?? What am I missing? --- ## [What is this NE Ohio tree?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-ne-ohio-tree/947794)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-ne-ohio-tree/947794 "2021-08-02T01:26:56Z")
In NE Ohio. Very dusty looking gray-green leaves. --- ## [Isomer Bombs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isomer-bombs/947733)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isomer-bombs/947733 "2021-08-02T01:12:56Z")
I’ve just read a brief book review, claiming that the Pentagon is trying to develop something called an “isomer bomb”. Allegedly the size of a hand grenade, it supposedly would have a two kiloton yield. The book review… --- ## [Slide rule manufacture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slide-rule-manufacture/947454)
**Author:** [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slide-rule-manufacture/947454 "2021-08-01T23:50:43Z")
I mentioned in a thread that someone asked me about slide rules. Apparently, this is not an item that is still being manufactured. My very simple question is, how were they made? Accurately inscribing a scale with regul… --- ## [Probationary firefighter question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probationary-firefighter-question/947786)
**Author:** [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probationary-firefighter-question/947786 "2021-08-01T23:03:35Z")
In general, are probationary firefighters (those who have completed their training and are working as fulltime firefighters) generally assigned to engine companies first? --- ## [What are these goddamn animals?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-goddamn-animals/947752)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-goddamn-animals/947752 "2021-08-01T22:38:46Z")
quoting Hunter S. in Fear and Loathing. Every night, after dark. Don’t sound lke crickets to me. Can’t tell if there is an echo or call and response. --- ## [Jetson's Dial-a-Meal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jetsons-dial-a-meal/947663)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jetsons-dial-a-meal/947663 "2021-08-01T22:32:15Z")
No, Discourse, not dial-up settings. I’m writing a chapter about the history of food pills and I have to include The Jetsons. It’s a moment’s work to find the Dial-A-Meal, which apparently spit out burnt toast pills. We… --- ## [Latest lab results](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-lab-results/947683)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-lab-results/947683 "2021-08-01T21:56:32Z")
Mr VOW and I had doctor appointments today. We’re both alive and breathing. We got the definitive answer as to how many Coca-Colas Mr VOW may have per day: one. He has been sneaking the damned things, and that causes a … --- ## [An interesting take on a 4-dimensional being with a 5-dimensional perspective](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-take-on-a-4-dimensional-being-with-a-5-dimensional-perspective/947725)
**Author:** [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-interesting-take-on-a-4-dimensional-being-with-a-5-dimensional-perspective/947725 "2021-08-01T20:36:07Z")
We are 3-D beings in a 4-D universe. This sci fi short story is from the perspective of a 4-D being in 5 dimensions. It’s well done with good graphics. Sci-Fi Short Film: "The Looking Planet" | DUST - YouTube --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - July 2021 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2021-edition/945266)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2021-edition/945266 "2021-08-01T20:29:58Z")
WHERE did June go?! How can it be gone already? Out here in the Western US, it probably melted. Record heat everywhere, and any minute now record fires too. sigh Ever feel like Mother Nature is slamming that reset button… --- ## [The Reece Committee 1953 - 1954 Questions!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reece-committee-1953-1954-questions/947759)
**Author:** [@shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reece-committee-1953-1954-questions/947759 "2021-08-01T20:21:18Z")
Before my time, anyone here remember Norman Dodd and his testimony to the Reese Committee on Foundations? My understanding is it was terminated? I have googled it. Later I’m go to see if Library of Congress has the tra… --- ## [Emancipation Day celebrations, London, Ontario, 1842](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emancipation-day-celebrations-london-ontario-1842/947785)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emancipation-day-celebrations-london-ontario-1842/947785 "2021-08-01T19:20:55Z")
I’m thinking we should rename this ‘Civic Holiday’, long weekend. A Buxton Museum - Happy Emancipation Day! Browse through... | Facebook A great blast from the past! (hope this works!) --- ## [Looking for a Civil Rights tv show or movie from the 70s or 80s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-civil-rights-tv-show-or-movie-from-the-70s-or-80s/947779)
**Author:** [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-civil-rights-tv-show-or-movie-from-the-70s-or-80s/947779 "2021-08-01T16:46:15Z")
The scene that stuck in my memory: A young or middle-aged black female teacher sometimes did teach their students about slavery and other injustices of the past, not in secret, but in the open. Someone did complain abou… --- ## [Did Movie The Forever Purge (Murder Legal for One Day) Result in Two Murders?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-movie-the-forever-purge-murder-legal-for-one-day-result-in-two-murders/947769)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-movie-the-forever-purge-murder-legal-for-one-day-result-in-two-murders/947769 "2021-08-01T16:34:33Z")
The two victims were watching this movie (with a plot centered around all criminal laws being suspended). “However, police had no evidence to suggest \[the killer\] Jimenez knew Goodrich and Barajas, or that he interacted … --- ## [What's SOP if a pianist totally forgets music during a performance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-sop-if-a-pianist-totally-forgets-music-during-a-performance/947751)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-sop-if-a-pianist-totally-forgets-music-during-a-performance/947751 "2021-08-01T15:57:54Z")
Say a pianist is halfway through Ravel’s Jeux D’eau or a Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableaux and - aw, crap - brain goes white-out and forgets big time, big time. What do they do in that situation? --- ## [NJ and Utah have a free App called \*\*Docket\*\* to track and display your Vacc Record](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-and-utah-have-a-free-app-called-docket-to-track-and-display-your-vacc-record/947660)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-and-utah-have-a-free-app-called-docket-to-track-and-display-your-vacc-record/947660 "2021-08-01T15:23:32Z")
So NJ and Utah have a free App called Docket to track and display your Vacc Record. It was pretty easy to install and verify. People should probably check if their state is offering the same. This means you won’t need … --- ## [Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carter-rock-roll-president/947765)
**Author:** [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carter-rock-roll-president/947765 "2021-08-01T15:15:12Z")
Watched this awesome documentary yesterday. Anyone else here seen it? There is some amazing archival footage of Jimmy and Rosalynn with famous musical acts up together on stage and at White House functions including a c… --- ## [What's better - the hot or the cold lobster roll? (need answer kinda fast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-better-the-hot-or-the-cold-lobster-roll-need-answer-kinda-fast/947541)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-better-the-hot-or-the-cold-lobster-roll-need-answer-kinda-fast/947541 "2021-08-01T14:45:32Z")
Going to an outdoor concert tonight. Found out they will have a lobster roll food truck (voted #1 food truck in Detroit, apparently). I’ve had plenty of lobster, but never a classic lobster shack-style lobster roll. The… --- ## [How Can We Reduce the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-reduce-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/779832)
**Author:** [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-we-reduce-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/779832 "2021-08-01T14:22:56Z")
In 1997, a sailor (since turned oceanographer and campaigner), Charles Moore, was traversing the ocean between Hawaii and California when he came across the now infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the five main … --- ## [What would happen if we covered all the oceans with white stuff?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-covered-all-the-oceans-with-white-stuff/947688)
**Author:** [@komolono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/komolono)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-we-covered-all-the-oceans-with-white-stuff/947688 "2021-08-01T13:38:26Z")
Say 85% or so. Not with plastic, though! Is 15% light penetration a killer for life in the seas? What would happen to winds and rainfall? Can scientists design such a life form - white algae perheps - that we could use … --- ## [SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Mask Effectiveness (Factual)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sars-cov-2-variants-and-mask-effectiveness-factual/946102)
**Author:** [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sars-cov-2-variants-and-mask-effectiveness-factual/946102 "2021-08-01T13:10:35Z")
In this thread, @puzzlegal, @ThelmaLou, @Jay\_Z, and I were discussing the robustness in protection of masks against the new Delta variant. I started this thread to avoid hijacking that one. The question is, does the hig… --- ## [Why are CNN articles greyed out onmy iPhone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-cnn-articles-greyed-out-onmy-iphone/945791)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-cnn-articles-greyed-out-onmy-iphone/945791 "2021-08-01T07:40:45Z")
Weird thing for the past three days: I can’t read CNN articles on my iPhone. If a CNN article comes up in my Google newsfeed and I click on it, it opens, but with a dark grey screen over it. I can see the picture and th… --- ## [How does a prisoner manage their estate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-prisoner-manage-their-estate/947516)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-prisoner-manage-their-estate/947516 "2021-08-01T04:27:58Z")
Suppose a person is arrested and charged with a crime, held without bail, tried/convicted and given a lengthy prison sentence. They own a house (with a mortgage), a couple of vehicles, and have a bank account and some m… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1378) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1380)