On Sunday Nurit and I followed up on a lead from Peter and found the rare and very old third order Saguaro Cactus. It has a branch off the trunk and then a branch off the branch and then finally a bra...Read More
Our condo came with an electric toilet. See the top photo. It was a beautiful idea but it was unreliable and unrepairable. We spent a year talking to plumbers about fixing it or replacing it. Many cam...Read More
In the USA in 2018 we spent 338 Billion dollars on prescription drugs. And how to pay for them is a big issue. See the above chart from the WSJIn 2018 we spent roughly the same amount on cell phones a...Read More
One of the benefits of living in a relatively prosperous society is public art. In the USA, federal law requires that a small percentage of the money spent on any construction project that is financed...Read More
I went hiking, with Peter and Jim, north of Cave Creek, Arizona last Sunday and one of the wonders we came across was an oak tree with oak galls on it. The ones pictured above are about a half inch in...Read More
“The clearest evidence that the U.S. government isn’t secretly keeping aliens locked up at Area 51 is that if we really had them, Trump probably would have tweeted about it by now.” Jim ...Read More
In the next decade a major university with a big time college football program will stop playing football. Probably as a result of a law suit regarding a head injury. The plaintiff will argue, that in...Read More