(Historical context: this was written in 2021, when roughly everybody sensible was using microcovid.org to compute which activities were worth the risk. Many (most?) of those sensible people adopted …

I have a passing interest in biology, so I recently bought some fruit flies to run experiments on. I did two things to them. First, I bred them for intelligence. The details are kinda boring, so …

This is a very special time of year, when my whole social bubble starts murmuring about nuclear war, and sometimes, some of those murmurers, urging their listeners to worry more, will state: …