Author: honeyrand

So, engineers are trying to 3-D print food. Specifically, cheesecake. Let me just say, EW. Maybe it tastes OK, but we’re a long way from adjusting our visual acceptance of printed food. Some of the early sci-fi programs had “manufactured” food. Some of it looked like glop, but some looked…

Lots of you know that Jim has been dealing with blood cancer for many years. The average from the onset of symptoms to death is six years. Jim is at 11 years. He’s really tough. Nine clinical trials. Lots of other meds to manage symptoms. Medical whack-a-mole. A byproduct of…

So a Harvard scientist has posited the idea that an alien ship could be hovering in our solar system sending out probes to gather data, just like we’re doing with interstellar interrogation. So the unidentified anomalous phenomena could be extraterrestrial. WELL, YES. Which is worse, unidentified visitors or an earth-based…

Yesterday was a beautiful day for walking. Bright sun, blue sky, slight breeze, temp in mid-60s. Didn’t even need an added long-sleeve t-shirt. My weekday route is about three and a half miles. I pass by a yard with a “Guard Tortoise on Duty” sign. I’ve shared it before. I…

Discover Magazine says skip the swear jar. In a June 202o article, Alex Orlando reported that letting a few choice words out during a workout can actually strengthen you. So, pain tolerance. Another study found that people who curse lie less and have a higher degree of integrity. So, trustworthy.…

For about 3.5 years, I’ve been doing low carbs, jokingly saying I lost 30 lbs without giving up bourbon, beer, or weed (though I did switch to light beer). THIS month I switched to the Mediterranean diet, and it’s going pretty well, though admittedly, for the month I’ve given up…

At least two days a week I hit the road for a 3+ mile walk. These days I’m on the actual road, not a trail. On those walks I’ve seen and found some remarkable stuff. And some gross stuff. And some weird stuff like that time someone had put a…

You know that bee populations are in trouble, right? Lots of us have native landscaping to support the pollinators, all of them. But scientists have come up with a bee vaccine to protect them from devastating bacteria. Or, as I think of it, “there’s a vax for that.” I’ve been…

Years ago, at a conference, I heard Alvin Toffler (author of Future Shock and The Third Wave) speak about education. His point is more relevant today than it was decades ago, before the first school shooting. His basic premise was that our school system was designed for manufacturing. We shove…