Go back to the very first picture book you recall reading. Was it an illustrated nursery rhyme? Was it a children’s comic? Was it bit fancier with real photos? Whatever it was, probably the most vivid part of that memory was the discovery, reading and sharing of a magical world…

You ever thump a full grown lion? With affection … and friendship even? There is only one human on earth who does that. Regularly. To about 80 tawny hellcats. He does not bat an eyelid if they are striped or spotted or maned or murderous looking. That’s right. …

Yes mass shootings in the USA are very distressing. Yes, our hearts ache for little defenseless kids and their grieving parents. Yes, most of us would like a solution. No, the government is doing nothing to provide a solution. Even though us voters seem to have little influence on the…

Who says New York is a concrete jungle? You just have to know where the oases are and find some time to enjoy them. One of the most idyllic locations in NYC is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Yes! …

Many economies, wars and at the very least male female romances/ contentions are all driven by diamonds. Yes they are shiny and almost indestructible … but their value is driven by someone telling girl kids to lust for diamonds … and by Marilyn Monroe and Beyonce writing stupid pop songs…

There is one museum made up of several royal hermitage buildings called “The State Hermitage Museum” in St. Petersburg Russia. The State Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. Why is it so…

Apparently the safest way to be racist, sexist, ageist or grossly prejudiced is to be an AI that is born in MIT and hyped as ground breaking by its creators. Imagine if you closed your eyes and heard someone speak and decided how they looked. …

How obsessed with technology and robotics and AI does one have to be to create a hugging machine? Which inhuman funding body funded this misguided research? The volunteer pay must have been very high to get participants for this inane study. Imagine being asked to submit to this clearly…

So you are on your way to Paris and The Louvre is on your itinerary. Whether it is a fortress, a royal palace or a museum, it has more than 380,000 objects and displays 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910…