I’ve given up on Britain. Still, the tradition of REAL nobility resonates in REAL humans. It’s innate. Sailer catches the power of REAL nobility in an elegant little story. Another evocation of REAL nobility. The monarch leads the troops into battle. REAL nobility is detectable between species.

This new study at PNAS caught my eye. The title implies an actual resonance: Neural synchronization predicts marital satisfaction After buying and reading the article, it’s not about phaselocked waveforms, it’s about brain regions activating at the same time. Still somewhat interesting. The details of the subjects and researchers are more interesting. The team was…

This is a good lesson of some kind. I read that British energy costs were going up from $1200 per month to $3000 per month. Both the before and after seemed utterly insane, but in a time when all governments are utterly insane, nothing can be counted out. Today I checked other sources and found…

The new out-in-space Webb telescope has found a constellation described as a space tarantula. Huh? Where’s the tarantula? My first thought is a bow-legged cowboy wearing an old-fashioned sombrero.  (eg Yosemite Sam.)  Second thought is a bear rug erasing a crescent wrench. Those are obviously too contrived, so here’s a one-part image: I guess Yankee…

Enid Buzz asks about middle names. Most people mentioned that their middle name was only used when Mom was seriously pissed. This is a common habit in America, but it can’t be very old. The three-name standard is basically limited to the Protestant parts of the English-speaking world. Catholic areas traditionally have a pile of…

Looking at Substack after a pause, I notice several teapot tempests about accusations of Controlled Opposition. The accused APs are stoutly defending their veracity, which doesn’t help. I think it’s a good sign when people are sniffing the unmistakable AP smell. An influencer who argues persistently and expertly for one side of the wrong question…

Saagar and Krystal are giving us fake solutions to the fake problem of “dark money” in politics. I didn’t bother to watch. OCKHAM. This is a fake argument designed to focus our attention on the wrong question. We have to recognize the difference between Profit and Share Value. In earlier decades, local and state elections…