Remarkable Science Tweet #1.

Remarkable Science Tweet #2 (Actually from last year, but still).

You guys are like ISIS

https://twitter.com/UhOhNoGo/status/1267974554896531462

This is about how the birth rate is likely to drop post-pandemic - and not rebound.

The writer is politely vague, but once again, the implication is that the economy is a perfectly good reason to have babies you really don't want.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cynthia-m-allen-a-post-coronavirus-baby-boom-seems-unlikely-here-s-why-that-s-a-problem/ar-BB14Sciq?ocid=msedgdhp

The writer is politely vague, but once again, the implication is that the economy is a perfectly good reason to have babies you really don't want. ~ Lenona at June 5, 2020 10:13 AM

The main reason to have babies you don't really want is to have someone to guilt into paying for and picking out a decent nursing home for you when you're old and demented. That's also a reason to raise them right, so they can get good jobs.

/sarcasm

No link, and unrelated to the Serious Topics of Our Times, but this did happen, not two hours ago:

As I was out on my lunchtime walk around the shopping center near my office, I heard music playing, but at first I couldn't identify its source. Eventually, I spotted a busker in the parking lot with an accordion. He was doing a nice job on a pop tune I recognized but couldn't name, so I gave him a dollar.

On the way back sometime later, he was still at it. Only this time, he was assaulting Pachelbel's Canon in D.

On an accordion.

Would I have been a scoundrel if I'd tried to retrieve my dollar?

This is wonderful.

> Would I have been a scoundrel if
> I'd tried to retrieve my dollar?

No. No, you'd not.

My favorite version of PC was by the son of a rock star whose guitar style echoed that of Dad's fiercest competitor for radio supremacy (U2 topped the Police time and time again)... It was all very Freudian. The lyric was "We hate things, we hate people."

Pachelbel will do that to you.

When you hear it at a wedding, you stop on the way home to buy beer for when the soon-divorcing groom comes over to cry.

My kind of irony... The brutally sarcastic kind!

Would I have been a scoundrel if I'd tried to retrieve my dollar? ~ Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy@GMail.com) at June 5, 2020 10:53 AM

I think you could have easily defended taking two or three from him.

Back when I regularly rode BART into San Francisco, I'd see and hear buskers all the time in the Embarcadero station. Most of them were not memorable. But one played the violin so well that I stopped to listen, only pulling myself away when I realized how late for work I already was.

• Coney: this guy.


• ndt writes a good one.

@Conan: Back when I regularly rode BART into San Francisco, I'd see and hear buskers all the time in the Embarcadero station.

We get a lot of them in D.C. too. I remember being downtown teaching a class, and we could hear a lovely rendition of "Ave Maria" plainly through the window of our classroom. Turned out to be a young music student from Howard University busking at McPherson Square station. We chatted for a little while, and I believe I gave her a tip.

Young, bored, spoiled-rotten:

https://twitter.com/RespectElves/status/1268797930640519168

Then there was the guy who noise-polluted Michigan Avenue in Chicago with a near-endless rendition of "The Flintstones" theme song. Seriously, most of us in the office were ready to go down there and beat him with his saxophone.

Vitamin D (3?) vs Xi's Disease.

Does Vitamin D Help Fight COVID-19? Evidence is slowly mounting. Some researchers think that’s enough to recommend it. Of course, you should be making sure to get enough Vitamin D anyway

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/378027/

Judging by the sales numbers, I'd say most Americans are familiar with the music of Tacobell's Cannon.

Despite stunning achievements across many decades, 1964 is almost universally regarded as the Annus Mirabilis for Taco Bell Labs. In June, two researchers in New Jersey discovered cosmic microwave background radiation, or CMB; and in September, two chefs at particle accelerator in New Mexico first toasted the Meximelt.