New Orleans A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. A satellite shot of traffic backed up for miles at the border crossing between the Russian Federation and Georgia was dramatic evidence of the unpopularity of Vladmir Putin’s order activating reservists for his invasion and now protracted war against Ukraine. …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Bowling Alone with the TV Off
Pearl River There have been a flurry of articles about the 50th anniversary of the last episode of the television series, M.A.S.H. Alan Alda, the primary star as Hawkeye, is still alive and has been quoted at length. What caught my eye was a comment that the almost 106 million viewers for that show …
Digging Deeper on the Food-Delivery Revolution
New Orleans When researchers from Minnesota, Michigan, and Switzerland get together to study something they are calling the “food-delivery revolution” and publishing peer-reviewed articles about their findings and queries in Science, it’s time to stop simply swerving to avoid hitting a bike delivery driver and take it all more seriously. Their argument …