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The Worst News Redux

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 From August 2017 ...Spelled Out in the Most-Read Story Ever in.... Magazine Art with a terrible message* The article, in the June 9, 2017 issue of New York Magazine, was the most read in the magazine's history. It was titled, simply: The Uninhabitable Earth Pretty straight forward, no? Maybe a little hyperbolic; not every square mile of Earth will be uninhabitable, even in 50 years. Just a very great deal of our planet will be purely awful and most totally unliveable. Hundreds of millions  of climate refugees will head for what  livable  space is left. They will be desperate.  The situation, in a few powerful sentences scattered through the piece: 1.  It is, I promise, worse than you think. 2.  Even when we train our eyes on climate change, we are unable to comprehend its scope. 3.  But no matter how well-informed you are, you are surely not alarmed enough. 4.  We are currently adding carbon to the atmosphere at a considerably faster rate (t...

Amazed, I am.

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 Kawasaki! I'm a big fan  I had a hot rod of a motorcycle in '73. A Kawasaki 350 2-stroke.  HOT. (and smokey, alas, at full acceleration.) You can call me Hotty. Kawasaki engineers really made it right. But now... Holy cow, A robot horse! It's name is Corleo. I feel naked without a rider. But can it handle a Steeplechase? No problemo Check this out. Video -- including that jump. HERE. OK, it's almost all GCI (or AI video), but I believe Kawasaki can take this baby from vaporware to hardware, all based on what a great machine that 350 was . Here's hoping.