Exciting news — Pantomime is launching the Reality Construction Kit for augmented reality. Now you can build structures and contraptions into your space out of tracks, planks, crates and real objects, all with the astonishing physics you may know from Pantomime’s 5-star Reality Faucet app.

Author Alice Sebold Accused Multiple Innocent Black Men of the Same Rape. One Served 16 Years. Several weeks ago a prosecutor and a judge exonerated Anthony Broadwater, an innocent man who had been convicted and served over 16 years in prison for the rape of now-famous writer Alice Sebold — author of “The Lovely Bones” and “Lucky”. …

In a new interview, a scientist known worldwide for his serious research on unexplained phenomena has earned a huge Bigelow Prize for it. Unexplained Death Connections My wife Gail sat up in bed so abruptly she woke me, fully alert. Her face was stricken. She rushed into the bathroom. She heaved…

Saturday Morning — 21 August 2021 At 5am in mid sleep, somehow I’m typing into an iPad, profusely thanking my friend Juliette for noticing a little post I had shared. It must have really been bothering me. Ordinarily I could care less if anyone noticed or Liked anything I posted on Facebook. But this was different…

There is indeed time dilation. But as Feynman points out, the theory says time can't stretch without space also stretching. So how does time dilation help you understand the apparent attractive force of gravity? Students scratch their heads because it doesn't really. A good explanation of gravity talks about the space part. By the way, be careful when you say "expansion of the earth" - skeptics might think you're promoting a nutty new theory. "Expansion of the space that contains the earth" is more on target for Einstein's theory.

Today by some miracle, just as I finished Barton Gellman’s brilliantly detailed, frightening The Election That Could Break America in The Atlantic, I randomly caught the last hour of Quo Vadis — the bloody 1951 movie about Nero and the fall of Rome — and in too many ways they…

Black voters are surmounting media Blackouts and discovering Bernie. Are they poised to burn through Southern and senior firewalls? In January I asked if anyone had a theory of why polls said black voters in the South prefer a candidate named Joe who fought busing, led mass incarceration, cursed welfare…

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — … Before we continue our story: Impeaching a blatantly corrupt president should be a huge win whether the president is removed or not, putting every Senator…

Jane Mayer of the New Yorker has a very detailed report on the successful campaign to exploit the #MeToo movement, and Democrats’ reliable cowardice, to destroy US Senator Al Franken with lies. …