# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=202&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 203 --- ## [Teaching AI in schools?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-ai-in-schools/1024774)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-ai-in-schools/1024774 "2025-11-16T11:25:02Z")
For quite a few years now there has been a current of opinion that schools should teach computer science as part of a general education. This has now been joined (or perhaps even partially superceded) by the idea of tea… --- ## [Three Chinese astronauts stranded on Tiangong space station](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-chinese-astronauts-stranded-on-tiangong-space-station/1024632)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-chinese-astronauts-stranded-on-tiangong-space-station/1024632 "2025-11-16T07:27:16Z")
Due to an impact of space debris on their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, three Chinese astronauts have been stranded on the Tiangong space station indefinitely, instead of going home Wednesday. The Shenzhou-21 crew had already … --- ## [Identify this single-player pencil-and-paper game, something to do with running a lemonade stand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-single-player-pencil-and-paper-game-something-to-do-with-running-a-lemonade-stand/1024064)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-single-player-pencil-and-paper-game-something-to-do-with-running-a-lemonade-stand/1024064 "2025-11-16T04:17:59Z")
WAY back in the day – and by that I mean mid-to-late 1970s – when I was a wee lad, and handheld games weren’t a thing, a relative taught me a game that I could play by myself using just a pencil and paper (and maybe dice… --- ## [California vacation: Jan 2026. Sacramento/SF/Berkeley](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-vacation-jan-2026-sacramento-sf-berkeley/1023703)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-vacation-jan-2026-sacramento-sf-berkeley/1023703 "2025-11-16T02:39:43Z")
Planing on about a week in California in January. Not ideal for weather, but it’ll be better than Chicago and maybe I’ll see the sun at least once. It looks like it’s easy to get between the Bay Area and Sacramento via … --- ## [Is there a science fiction equivalent of GOOSEBUMPS?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-science-fiction-equivalent-of-goosebumps/1024584)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-science-fiction-equivalent-of-goosebumps/1024584 "2025-11-16T01:29:37Z")
Title sums it up. I have grandnieces too old for Seuss and not old enough for Asimov, with kind of a warped sense of humor. Any YA SF literary recommendations? --- ## [What denominations of coins and bills have been discontinued by the U.S. over the years?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-denominations-of-coins-and-bills-have-been-discontinued-by-the-u-s-over-the-years/1024817)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-denominations-of-coins-and-bills-have-been-discontinued-by-the-u-s-over-the-years/1024817 "2025-11-16T01:17:44Z")
What denominations, and when did they happen? --- ## [If Chuck Schumer (Senate minority leader) is deposed in some fashion who is likely to replace him?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-chuck-schumer-senate-minority-leader-is-deposed-in-some-fashion-who-is-likely-to-replace-him/1024865)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-chuck-schumer-senate-minority-leader-is-deposed-in-some-fashion-who-is-likely-to-replace-him/1024865 "2025-11-16T01:14:41Z")
Loads of people are getting very unhappy with Chuck Schumer with the big one being losing control of his caucus and letting eight dems defect and vote to end the shutdown. I have no proof Schumer is in any immediate dan… --- ## [Alternative ways (other than steering wheels) for controlling car-like vehicles?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-ways-other-than-steering-wheels-for-controlling-car-like-vehicles/1024849)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-ways-other-than-steering-wheels-for-controlling-car-like-vehicles/1024849 "2025-11-16T00:17:09Z")
What control/input methods have been attempted for driving cars and car-like machines (tractors, buggies, tanks, etc.) other than steering wheels? The steering wheel makes sense when you’re mechanically steering the driv… --- ## [RIP: @Elbows Husband Has Just Died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-elbows-husband-has-just-died/1024869)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-elbows-husband-has-just-died/1024869 "2025-11-15T23:22:29Z")
In case anyone isn’t following Puzzlegal’s thread about her husband’s illness, @elbows has shared some very sad news: My husband is seriously ill - #160 {moved from this thread by What Exit?} I am sorry to hear this. @… --- ## [Speak to me only in Disney quotes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-disney-quotes/782302)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 3374\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-only-in-disney-quotes/782302 "2025-11-15T23:17:24Z")
Let’s start a conversation using just Disney quotes. They can be from the Classic Animated Canon, the TV shows, the traditional live-action films, but hmm… I’ll draw the line and say nothing from the Marvel Cinematic Un… --- ## [My online genealogy service linked me to American Kennel Club's stud book register!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-online-genealogy-service-linked-me-to-american-kennel-clubs-stud-book-register/1024876)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-online-genealogy-service-linked-me-to-american-kennel-clubs-stud-book-register/1024876 "2025-11-15T23:07:41Z")
It’s amazing what my genealogy service (MyHeritage) finds for me without me even asking. It notified me that via their OldNews service it uncovered pertinent family info for me. This info turned out to be the registrati… --- ## [In Buffalo, NY now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-buffalo-ny-now/1024874)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-buffalo-ny-now/1024874 "2025-11-15T22:28:21Z")
I was born here. Moved to Arizona, however, with my parents when I was seven and remained there for many decades. Decided to move back here recently, as there was nothing keeping me in Arizona anymore. Main wondering i… --- ## [Andor Season 2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andor-season-2/1014741)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 353\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andor-season-2/1014741 "2025-11-15T21:59:22Z")
A season two trailer (more of a teaser) has dropped. Mostly with quotes saying how great season 1 was. A few short snippets. Hope it’s good - recent Star Wars hasn’t been the best (I kind of liked Skeleton Crew) … --- ## [Straight Women: Are you more turned off by women, or unattractive men?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-women-are-you-more-turned-off-by-women-or-unattractive-men/1024732)
**Author:** [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-women-are-you-more-turned-off-by-women-or-unattractive-men/1024732 "2025-11-15T17:50:43Z")
I’m trying to figure out if I’m weird, or if this is standard female psychology. I’m a straight woman. Let’s say I’m sexually available, and my choices are a man I’m attracted to, a man I’m not attracted to, and a woma… --- ## [When does a kiss merit 1-4 years in jail? (Spanish soccer)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-a-kiss-merit-1-4-years-in-jail-spanish-soccer/989844)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 378\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-a-kiss-merit-1-4-years-in-jail-spanish-soccer/989844 "2025-11-15T16:37:39Z")
This is being discussed in The Game Room, but I was wondering if it might merit broader discussion and a thread of its own. This took place during a post-game celebration. I will not describe it in words to allow each … --- ## [More iWoz: communicating with his infant son](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-iwoz-communicating-with-his-infant-son/1024809)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-iwoz-communicating-with-his-infant-son/1024809 "2025-11-15T14:46:07Z")
Never heard of people being able to do this– in Chapter 19 “With Jesse, when he was just a few months old I had the most fun with him doing what I called these “flying tours”. I would hold him so that his belly was over… --- ## [Cancel a bookmark](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-a-bookmark/1024788)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-a-bookmark/1024788 "2025-11-15T14:06:14Z")
I have accidentally bookmarked a couple of threads- how do I take that away? --- ## [More on 2001: A Space Odyssey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-2001-a-space-odyssey/1024866)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-2001-a-space-odyssey/1024866 "2025-11-15T13:54:52Z")
Since this thread was closed: 2001: A Space Odyssey Just came across this 2018 NYT article about Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL (who died later that year): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/movies/hal-2001-a-space-odys… --- ## [The SAG awards are getting a name-change](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sag-awards-are-getting-a-name-change/1024872)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sag-awards-are-getting-a-name-change/1024872 "2025-11-15T13:42:30Z")
I don’t know that it was a needed change to “Actor Awards presented by Sag-Aftra”, but I guess it keeps them in the headlines --- ## [FBI/NSA recovering deleted files](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-nsa-recovering-deleted-files/1024839)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-nsa-recovering-deleted-files/1024839 "2025-11-15T13:39:39Z")
I’m reasonably familiar with the fact that deleting a file on the hard drive simply removes the link to the various sectors where the file is written. Those actual ones and zeros are still there until a newly created fil… --- ## [Masafumi Saito and the Ice Age Trail](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masafumi-saito-and-the-ice-age-trail/1024855)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masafumi-saito-and-the-ice-age-trail/1024855 "2025-11-15T13:09:51Z")
Japanese hiker “Masa” recently (today Nov 14th) finished hiking the Ice Age trail, a ~1000\* mile trail that crosses Wisconsin along glacial boundaries. He has become a minor celebrity, getting plenty of “rail magic”: he… --- ## [City, Suburb and Country living](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-suburb-and-country-living/1001139)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-suburb-and-country-living/1001139 "2025-11-15T03:42:16Z")
Today I was thinking about my grandpa and how he was raised in the city, moved to one of those postwar picket fence suburbs when he had his own family, then spent the last third of his life living in Amish country with h… --- ## [What one particular song best represents a particular country in your opinion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812 "2025-11-15T03:12:34Z")
Please note the three aspects contained in that question. One song. One country. Your opinion. The only way to get that wrong is if you skip any of those three aspects just to shoehorn your pick. If you pick a “used-t… --- ## ["Chicken Little" - aka, the Weatherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-little-aka-the-weatherman/1024726)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-little-aka-the-weatherman/1024726 "2025-11-15T02:43:39Z")
All weekend long we were deluged with dire warnings of a major lake effect snowstorm extending from the city all the way down to South Bend, IN. There were forecasts of 8 to 12 inches of snow. Since we have tomorrow of… --- ## [I talked to Paul Shaffer today!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-talked-to-paul-shaffer-today/304195)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-talked-to-paul-shaffer-today/304195 "2025-11-15T02:38:44Z")
Really! The story: I publish a newsletter that covers the IMAX film industry. At a conference a couple of weeks ago, they screened one of the very first IMAX movies, North of Superior, released in 1971. The film include… --- ## [Killing Fishermen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-fishermen/1024853)
**Author:** [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-fishermen/1024853 "2025-11-15T02:29:24Z")
Trump is blowing up boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, claiming without evidence that they are drug traffickers. International law says the military cannot kill civilians unless they pose an imminent threat of violence… --- ## [One day in Toronto later this month](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-toronto-later-this-month/1024856)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-toronto-later-this-month/1024856 "2025-11-14T22:37:45Z")
Stopping off there on a drive. Any hotel or restaurant or don’t miss recommendations? --- ## [Fallout TV Show coming to Amazon, April 2024 (No spoilers for at least a week)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-tv-show-coming-to-amazon-april-2024-no-spoilers-for-at-least-a-week/914138)
**Author:** [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-tv-show-coming-to-amazon-april-2024-no-spoilers-for-at-least-a-week/914138 "2025-11-14T21:09:50Z")
I’m usually pretty dubious about video game based movies since they are usually meh at best. But westworld is a fairly decent show, and fallout is one of my favorite game franchises, so I think I might actually be exc… --- ## [Ways to avoid single point of email failure](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-to-avoid-single-point-of-email-failure/1024848)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-to-avoid-single-point-of-email-failure/1024848 "2025-11-14T20:55:58Z")
I recently lost access to my Hotmail account for a few days. I have a few email accounts, but I use that one for my bank accounts, bills, Venmo, etc. I was able to get back in this morning – I can still feel the relief… --- ## [Problem Employees: Are HR Departments Better at Policing Their Own?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-employees-are-hr-departments-better-at-policing-their-own/1024738)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-employees-are-hr-departments-better-at-policing-their-own/1024738 "2025-11-14T20:49:45Z")
Continuing the discussion from That’s funny. Which raises the question of whether HR departments are any more effective at disciplining or firing their own problem children than they are at disciplining or firing othe… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=201&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=203&state=watching)