My mother-in-law was a telephone operator up until about 1980. She knew everyone in town, and everything about them.

Makes me sweat just thinking about it.

No matter how you treat your own books (and I use mine up -you should see my Bible), you must always respect other people's books and return them in perfect condition, including library books.

While this is really funny, I can see why AI has so much trouble learning from existing recipes. The way we record recipes usually assumes that A. the reader knows how to eat, and 2. the reader knows a few things about cooking. A young person learning to cook with a recipe often needs guidance, or else they end up as a funny internet story. However, even a human who has never cooked has actually eaten before, and knows that chicken doesn't belong in cake, and horseradish doesn't belong in brownies. AI does not have that assumed experience.

On the one hand, we've seen so many zombie parasites that it's nice one victim can fight back. On the other hand, when humans engineer bacteria, what could possibly go wrong?

Definitely an idea that was permanently destroyed by television. Every parlor now has a focus point, which every chair must face.

A bunny with antlers is a jackalope.

Not news: student is grateful for help getting into college.

News: woman with PhD is teaching at a high school.

(I may have missed something in this story, as I couldn't get the video to play.)