The linked article says “I am not persuaded that electrochemical activity in the brain explains how flesh gives rise to conscious subjects experiencing that flesh as their very being.” I wish I could be that certain. It frightens me and yet seems hideously plausible that if we only knew exactly where to tickle peoples’ brains, we could make them think, feel or believe anything.
Whereas I think it absurd to think that electrochemical activity isn’t responsible for that.
Unfortunately for posterity, the Zeptosecond left the act early, so most people only remember the Harposecond, the Chicosecond, and the Grouchosecond. And forget about the Gummosecond.
Spock used the word zeptosecond in the most recent episode of ST Strange New Worlds.
This is an interesting fact. When I told it over dinner, it elicited follow up questions:
- Technically the shortest measured unit was 247 zeptoseconds not 1 zeptosecond? Or alternatively 2.47 hecto-zeptoseconds?
- Or was actually measured with zeptosecond resolution?
- Or is it a phenomenon known to take 247 zeptoseconds that was successfully observed?
The old Dumont TV network had a logo that some say looked similar to the similar-sounding DuPont company.
Loons are more closely related to penguins than they are to ducks! They both have dense bones instead of hollow ones, tuxedo coloring, and are specialized for swimming and catching fish underwater.
Today I discovered Google Maps can show you the locations of wildfires, along with smoke density. Just click on Layers → More → Wildfires.
Somehow, the Google Car made it all the way out to Fort Jefferson (70 miles west of Key West, FL). Must be one of those James Bond submarine cars.
I suspect it wasn’t a car…
Probably a hand held camera. I couldn’t find any shadows which might’ve
given the game away.
The “street view” to the Loggerhead lighthouse was done with a boat …
Baseball legend Ted Williams, who famously was the last player to hit .400 for a season (in 1941)…
was Mexican
His father was Samuel Stuart Williams, a welsh/Irish white man from New York.
But his mom was Micaela May Venzor, a Mexican woman from El Paso, Texas.
Ted Williams played Major League Baseball beginning in 1939. Jackie Robinson didn’t break the color barrier until 1947. It’s interesting to consider that Williams was “passing” throughout his career (to be clear, there was no rule against white looking Mexicans playing in the majors, but Williams never acknowledged that part of his heritage)
Did he ever deny it, or did it just not come up?
He only addressed it once, in a biography first published in 1966.
He hid his heritage.
Thanks. That’s very sad.
Charles Darwin finally proven right about bug-eating plant after 150 years
‘I hope he’d be really excited and wanted to give us a big high five,’ says botanist
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/darwin-flesh-eating-plant-9.7298795
Not at all. He was born in the USA, right? Now, if you wanna say “Hispanic”, “Latino” or “Mexican American”, fine. Even back on those rather bigoted days, the MLB was Okay with Hispanics- as long as you could “pass”. 
Several Cuban players, IIRC.
During his lifetime, all of Buddy Holly’s records were released with labels reading “Buddy Holly” or “The Crickets”; a band called “Buddy Holly and the Crickets” didn’t technically exist until 1962, when a compilation album was released. Releasing half of his output as “The Crickets” let Holly release records on two different labels, and let DJs off the hook for overplaying a single artist. The Crickets backed him on even the records with a solo credit.
It is a quirk of English that we use the same word for heritage ethicity as for nationality. Lots of people identify as Mexican without being from Mexico. It creates ambiguity sometimes, but people just don’t all use the hyphenated versions.