Unfortunately, a return to the days of Lysenkoism is planned, but it is certainly not inevitable.

You seem to have forgotten his marvelous research regarding the mathematics which subsequently allowed development of the twist-off beer bottle cap. Much more important than cat doors, unless you are a cat.

Last report was 14.1 lbs, but that was at least 2 lbs ago. Approximately 6 years, he was a scrawny stray that showed up at our door one day...

Love them all!

Need to look at some of Turing's work

The assault begins...

I trust this went straight through the peer review. My IQ fell by 39 points just looking at this.

Great choices and I am lucky enough to live not too far from Goldberry Books. Love the place, and buy books there whether I need them or not...

And yet, I see it has not quite lost its shadow. A great read by the way!

Nate Silver at his prognosticatin' best.

Cybertruck? Oh, I get it! You must mean a "Deplorean".

(Not my invention, stole it from some other Bluesky post)

After the Bishop Museum and Pearl, take a plane to the Big Island. You have to see Volcanoes National Park. To not do so is criminal...

Don't know, but I can say from my recent trip to England it is an Anglo-Saxon tower with a relatively good bit of confidence.

Greenville, MS.

Nope, still active. Just a slow refresh rate here in the hinterlands.

Apparently no longer exists...

Almost 25 years ago, I was advising an investment bank regarding their holdings in Monsanto and how the recent introduction of GM crops would affect the value of the portfolio. I told them to hold as there would be gradual acceptance of the technology. And here we are, still fighting that battle...

Well worth waiting for. However, make sure you read or re-read "Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World" first as it serves as an almost required prequel.