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There Was My Favorite Toy Ever (when I was 10) The Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring ! I have a scintillating personality!  I had one . Five Kix boxtops (I loved Kix, no problem) and a bit of change and I had my very own Spinthariscope. Take off the red tail fins, get in a dark place and look in the little l ens... ...and you could see scintillation, tiny tracks of atomic particle activity. Oh the thrill. Apparently none of us Lone Ranger radio show fans suffered any radiation damage.  I'm told. My ring finger only glows very slightly. VERY slightly. Funky site

For a Brief Time My Worries were Salved.  The salve was in a cute tube of American bravado But Now.... we get this headline in the authoritative Aviation Week newsletter: U.S. Hypersonics Face Uphill Struggle To Match China, Russia Sep 21, 2018 Guy Norris    |  Aerospace Daily & Defense Report I'll sneak around you and come up from behind  before you even know I'm on the way. This is not good. In the balance-of-power thing, America should have parity at the very minimum in these important, fist-of-the-gods weapons. Traditionally, we have the lead in the Big Scaries. The way of the world is that you can't rest on your laurels in any competition. The game proceeds. Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering , spake on the problem: “The U.S. has been taking a decade-long holiday from the exigencies of great power competition,” so we're seriously behind in a few vital fields. One is he

They Feel Threatened, I reckoned... Careful, I'm tougher than I look. And these guys are getting out their Righteous Sticks, and are ready to whop some sense into those pushy... ... skirts. One pal of mine - a professional and affluent white guy in his sixties (WAY younger than me) - has been writing diatribes about #MeToo, et al. Now the Judge Kavanaugh kerfuffle has pushed him closer to the edge. He sees a catastrophic attack on God's Order re men and women .   I asked him if he felt threatened or what else might account for stuff like him writing the "New Women's Bill of Rights" with an attempt at humor, but you could hear his teeth grinding.  Stuff like: Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, no excessive fines imposed,  nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted,  unless they are men (Maybe he didn't write it, just plagiarized it, which I hope since it's grammatical nonsense.) He sent me a single line response.

Look at All Those "Likes!" I'm a LikeBot . I like what I'm programmed to like. Really like it a lot ! When a troll comment pops up, a LIKEBOT, programmed to support the troll, jumps in and registers a "like."  Then it notifies more LIKEBOTS with accounts of their own, and they pump up the likes, like LIKEBOTS like to do. It works best when there are a few real "likes."  Like all good lies, there are usually strains of truth in them. We the gullible see this and think whatever nasty thing the troll said is very "popular;" lots of people like it. And, hey, I sort of like it too, even though it's over the line. So woweee, Batman, I've been moved further toward the crazy zone and further away from people I disagree with. The polarization disease spreads. For every fake account harboring a bot that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et al remove from their platforms, another - maybe five others - register and start bott

Forbes, the fanboy magazine for billionaire$...  ...had two " SENOLYTIC " pieces on Sept  24. I'm betting most of the rich people read both of them: 40,993 views Sep 24, 2018, 02:16am Senolytic Therapies Seem To Stop Alzheimer's Disease 'In Its Tracks' Robin Seaton Jefferson And... 4,745 views Sep 24, 2018, 02:16am Senolytic Therapies And The Quest To Cure Aging Robin Seaton Jefferson I posit the proposition (har, har) that ALL rich people are interested in living the longest, healthiest lives money can buy.  Lo, I have held forth thereon. So that was one reason they all read both pieces. The other of course can be heard in, "Alexa, buy a bloc of common in the following pharmaceuticals." Always looking for an edge of any kind.  Those darn rich people. This is good for us in the lower 95% Having an affluent, eager crowd of customers just waiting for the new product

Never Pass a Chance to Beat Your Favorite Drum Hey, Y'all. Look out for Trolls and Bots! I was reading the "Comments" section after a review of Ms. Daniels' new book, Full Disclosure , in the Washington Post .  Lo and behold, my expert Troll/Bot spotting eyes saw quite a few. So I fired up my favorite motor scooter and scooted right in with this: duffworx Herein is a great collection of reader comments. It's the perfect place to look for Russian/Iranian/N.Korean, et al Troll/bots. WaPo, imho, is under high volume troll attacks in the Comments space because there is not much high level moderating.  Trolls all over! HOW TO SPOT 'EM: Remember a standard attack mode (to create the  social chaos called 'polarization') is to escalate the hyperbole on BOTH sides of the GAS (Great American Split). I say 'remember' because a lot of people still think those cyber warriors are all Trumpsters, alt-righters, etc.  Not so!  Here at t

See? I Told You to Bone Up on Senolytics [OK, this is more mouse research... but exciting!] Published Wednesday, 19 September in Nature Magazine ... one of the Super Journals (meaning they are as credible as they come, science-journal-wise), a paper based on research done at Mayo Clinic , a pretty good outfit.   Published:  19 September 2018 Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline If you keep up on Alzheimer's research, you recognize "tau-dependent," and if you don't, you surely know about cognitive decline. That and memory loss are the heart-ripping Alzheimer's symptoms we'd all like to avoid.  If You Are Interested in the Science Put your science hat on and take a look at the abstract (free) in Nature . Or read a (also free) layperson version.  Here's a short one (written for Big Pharma money men).                                                                  Here's a lo