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Politics in the Time of Cholera

It seems to me that climate change is devastating the USA … and I’m not talking about environmental matters. It’s the scorched earth condition of the nation’s political landscape that’s given me a rampant case of patriotic blues. 


Meditation on Easter customs

What do colored eggs, jelly beans, marshmallow chicks and a gift-bearing cotton tail have to do with Easter? Well, as far as popular customs in Mexico go, nothing at all.

Mind-reading technology is coming to an asylum near you

I hate to be the one to bring this to everybody’s attention, but a team from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and a neurotechnology company has developed an “electroencephalography cap,” coupled with a “generative artificial intelligence system,” that makes it possible to read minds.