After I posted my blog yesterday, I thought I'd watch that classic 1964 anti-nuclear war black comedy,  Dr. Strangelove , which got 98/94 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes .  Conveniently, I had recorded it some time ago off TCM.  Of course I had seen it a long time ago, but forgot all the details.  A timetable of what was happening during that period: There was a half-hearted  Bay of Pigs invasion  in April of 1961.  Incredibly, there is a true story of how five of us as Stanford juniors actually had planned to swing through the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the spring break, then join this attack.  Good thing we chickened out. The  Berlin Crisis  came in August of 1961 when the wall was built between East and West Berlin. I graduated and in June of 1962 moved to the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii, a location where I could not receive radio or television. Came the  Cuban Missile Crisis  from 1...

 The World is not at peace.  There is still war in Ukraine. Israelis are again killing people in the Gaza Strip. The  USA yesterday bombarded dozens of targets in Yemen  controlled by Iran-backed Houthis, killing at least 31. President Donald Trump has a draft list of  43 countries banned from entering the U.S .  There are three categories, red, orange and yellow.  On the red list are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. The Doomsday clock was on 28January2025 moved to 89 seconds to midnight,  THE CLOSEST EVER TO DOOMSDAY .  Not only the threat of nuclear armageddon because of Russia, but now also global warming and the threat of artificial intelligence. One of my more obscure subjects of interest is world peace.  My first  Huffington Post  article, in 2008, was entitled:   Well, Barack, We Have a Problem ... This article was published when Barack Obama and ...

Did you know that the Doomsday Clock was just set to its most dangerous time in history?   Atomic scientists who worked on on the first atomic bomb founded in 1945 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.  Feeling great remorse about what they had done, these scientists created the Doomsday Clock in 1947.  The closer to midnight the closer to the end of humanity.  The time was initially set to 7 minutes away from midnight.  They've changed it 26 times in 78 years.  After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the clock was set to 17 minutes, or 1020 seconds to midnight.  That is chairman of the board Leonard Rieser making the adjustment on 26November1991.  They just re-set it to 89 seconds.  Tomorrow, the details. That introduction about does it for science day, but let me proceed to President Donald Trump, as he is going haywire on human and global rights, that I can foresee growing protests to escalate over the coming months.  Thus,  Rolling ...

By now you know that Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary by double digits, an unimpressive "only" 11%.  The way the upcoming primaries are shaping up, Nikki Haley has no chance of overtaking Trump, and,  as I detailed yesterday, the best hope for any kind of Republican victory is for Trump to embrace Haley as his vice-presidential running mate .  It was mostly a waste of time and effort for Democrats, but  Joe Biden also won , easily, through a write-in campaign. Last week Wednesday , I compared the two scientific journals most respected by researchers and academia.  From  Quora : But  iLovePhD  shows that #2 is not  Science , but  The New England Journal of Medicine , which is fine for the medical profession.  I thought the  Journal of the American Medical Association  would be higher rated, but it is only at #11. Last week,  FeedSpot  listed its 45 Best Science Magazines. Science  is #1. ...