- Cannabis grower buys a town to create a pot-friendly outpost. (H/T TF)
- And while I wouldn’t want this to influence too many college students, drinking booze may boost our ability to remember things we learned just before drinking.
- In Australia, a synagogue can’t get a building permit because Muslim terrorists might attack it.
- Girlfriend-suicide-texting case sets the precedent that words can be weapons for homicide.
- Nothing says “shut up you noisy kids” like a trebuchet.
- Academic idiocy is sneaking into the engineering curriculum.
- The feds appear to be really bad liars (no surprise) when it comes to the warrantless stingray technology they’ve become so secretively fond of.
- Unlocking the (pretty darned paltry) secrets of fortune cookies.
- In the pretty cool tech department (and in the things to do while on an incredibly long, boring flight department): Boeing draws a gigantomongous airplane in the skies over the U.S.
Cannabis grower buys a town to create a pot-friendly outpost. (H/T TF)
A company taking advantage and capitalizing on marijuana tourism. It’s the American Way! 🙂
So much for Purdue.
And so much for safe bridges and functional tools sometime in the near future.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will surely kill me.
Cannabis grower buys a town, DEA opens a field office.
California Legislature: “O.M.G. Assault trebuchet.” Motion to ban them in 5…4…3…
To be fair about stingrays, there are a lot of tech gadgets that I can’t describe how they work. Most of what’s now under the hood of my car, for instance.
OTOH I was cleaning up my office (We’re replacing windows) and discovered some NRA instructional posters from when there were eight NRA safety rules. I could pretty much still use them.
It’s a Most Interesting Feeling when you crack open your fortune cookie and find you don’t have a fortune.
One thing about smoking pot was all of these great ideas I would get but the bad news was I always forgot them the next day; now I learn all I needed to do was drink some booze afterwards and I could remember it later but I think I did that however I just can’t remember whether I did, maybe it wasn’t enough booze or was it too much pot?
It’s sounds like more research is needed.
I sent the “Cognitive Privilege” (from the 7/31posting) to a friend and got the following back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron Sci-fi certainly can be realistic.
The Purdue article is staggering. I really didn’t think those sentiments would officially get to an engineering school, but obviously they’re spreading like cancer.
And when structures start falling down it will obviously be a “failure of capitalism.”
Putting a curriculum labeled Engineering Education in the Engineering School instead of the Education School is the mistake and lifts the tent edge for the camel.
In every major university I’ve looked at, the Education School is ALWAYS the laughing stock of academia. Academic rigor is practically unknown and grade inflation was invented there.
When I graduated, the Placement Office put the each school’s GPA/quartile data (under glass) on a bulletin board, because most companies asked quartile position on their application forms. A 2.97 put you in the upper quartile in the Engineering School, and a 3.54 put you in the bottom quartile as a Education major.
It’s been a half-century and you have phone in your pocket that can call almost anyone, anywhere, can give you the weather forecast with a satellite picture, tell you the news, take a video and play a movie.
And Johnny still can’t read.
If it “doesn’t have math” it doesn’t belong in Engineering.