There is a great one on the Jersey shore that I went to today called the Silverball Museum. There’s a good one in Maryland as well I believe. Download the Pinball Map app to see locations around the world, including which games are at each arcade.

Helping train / develop a fiction-writing AI?

The same could be said of a $2 calculator, with an equivalent meaning.

Vernalization will double our harvests.

Thank you Steve for the update. I always enjoyed her videos. Not all heroes wear capes.

They are in the war for eyeballs with social media to attract dopamine-addled brains. It’s a race to the bottom to trigger the base human fight or flight responses that forcefully grab our attention, however briefly.

Bagels were not just bread. But their antecedents were eaten “raw” quite often. In the Eastern European tradition they tended to be a bit crunchier than a modern boiled NY bagel. For NYC style nothing beats everything toasted with a schmear of scallion cream cheese.

It doesn’t take billions of years from the POV of the traveler, though. You can go from Earth to any point in our galaxy within a human lifetime at 1G acceleration.