But before Bocelli, first, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump.  This  public squabble between them seems to be escalating, mostly spurred by Musk .    A day after using his vast social media reach to brand the bill a “disgusting abomination,” he posted more than two dozen messages on X on Wednesday attacking the legislation, as well as urging his followers to call Congress and “KILL the BILL. ” All of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office studies support Musk.  Said Senator Rand Paul: “I think Congress is sort of like a bad behaving teenager when it comes to spending,” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, one of the Republicans threatening to vote against the bill, told TIME on Wednesday. “If you had a teenager that you were giving $100 a week and they wasted all of it on gambling or on booze, would you give them $200?” What seems to be bothering Musk is the effect some of these Trump cuts will have on his solar and battery enterprises.  This feud is also affecting Tes...

I watch a lot of films and TV series, especially more recently on Netflix and Prime. I once only went to Rotten Tomatoes to help me decide what to watch, but noticed that most of the new series from Korea and some other countries were not yet rated.  So I'm now expanding into Metacritic and IMDb.   How do they compare? Rotten Tomatoes began in 1998, and is now owned by Comcast's Fandango. It ranks #225 in the USA as a most-watched website.  Anything rated that has 60%+ ratings is considered Fresh, with 70%+ gaining a Certified Fresh.  If not, then Rotten.  Each feature is rated using two averages, from critic's reviews and the audience, us.  Their ratings have killed some blockbusters at the box office, like  Baywatch  and  The Mummy .  The first got a 19% score and the second a 16%.  However, both  Wonder Woman  and  Spider-Man (Homecoming ) got 92% and their earnings exceeded expectations. Wikipedia  lists all ...

The search for dark matter is occurring using telescopes and  underground laboratories.  Hundreds of PhDs using expensive telescopes and laboratories are devoting their life to this subject.  If you read my blog yesterday, you can appreciate their dedication gazing into outer space of and ruminating into the unknown. Dark Matter in space is being searched by 400 researchers from 25 centers in seven countries.   They recently reported on the results of looking at 226 million galaxies and thousands of supernova explosions.    A new dark matter map has been created by the   Dark Energy Survey .  Their conclusion is that the cosmos is more mysterious than they earlier imagined.  A pleasant way of saying that they have yet to prove the existence of Dark Matter.  But they now have a better map. The XENON project is a collaboration of over 160 scientists  mostly attempting to detect WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles,...