Sad news indeed.?ÿ He dedicated his life to deep thinking and good causes. He was the main one who tied Feynman's innovations to the existing body of ...

I once ran into a guy with a variation of my first name so usually also called Bill, with the exact same middle and last names, although no known rela...

Not common, but not extremely rare. I found this: ?ÿ WENDELL is the 890th most popular given name in the United States with an estimated population ...

@jim-frame take care. Your city seems to be the epicenter of the US virus developments.

Lots better than a week ago, and I wouldn't blame anyone for getting in.?ÿ But I'm not sure we've seen the bottom yet.

Seems I should have said SOME kinds.?ÿ Seasonal flu varieties are being quoted at 0.1% in the news versus 2 to 3% for this one and much higher for a f...

Somewhat pertinent to the present situation, Andromeda Strain was entertaining for a while but the ending made me totally angry. Besides the deus ex m...

It has always bugged me that R2D2 had perfect understanding of human speech but could not produce speech.?ÿ That's entirely backward. Production is th...

One could look at your example as a closed loop where the predecessor did half the loop and you did the other half. Then the error of closure is 20 mm...

I just now saw this in a news report on the virus. Sheesh. Distance in square units? And the conversion isn't square but rectangular. Supermarkets ...

I note that the 3 acres is under the same ownership as the 57 acres, according to the GIS.?ÿ The parcel was split off in or before 2017. The county ha...

I grew up hearing a lot of colloquial phrases that used "pretty" as a synonym for "moderately" or "considerably." Very strange. I see nothing wrong ...

I totally agree that is a bad construction. but I think the finish can be used as a noun.?ÿ Just having "The" in front of it tends to indicate it is...

Having taken all the Education courses does not mean someone understands the subject they are teaching, or that they can perceive what the stumbling b...

That is true of a lot of money managers who get commissions. Avoid them and use a flat-percentage manager. But there are several on-line brokerages a...

Lynch had some luck in noticing companies that grew rapidly, but a big part of his success was working at watching what was going on at the business o...

I worked with a guy who had everything in the very hottest tech fund in 2000.?ÿ He came out of that period with 1/3 of what he went in with. Diversity...

But if you look at the price history, BA isn't down a huge percentage - maybe lost a quarter of its peak and still well above its price of a couple ye...

That means you have locked in a loss of maybe a couple % a year (currently) in buying power to real inflation (not the rigged CPI), foregoing any gain...

Monday pre-market looks like people are starting to worry, with indexes down ~3%. Travel- related and chip tech stocks are leading the drop.