Weird when it’s your own name in a news story — for a nanosecond, there’s this moment of hey, did I forget something…? Then, oh, wait, reality, right.

Weird when it’s your own name in a news story — for a nanosecond, there’s this moment of hey, did I forget something…? Then, oh, wait, reality, right.

"I am honored to be here with Barack Obama. I am absolutely honored."

"Shame on you, Barack Obama!"

Wow. That was fast.

Maybe Hillary should be Ralph Nader’s running mate — a ticket with two smart, hard-working progressives, both of whom might be globally respected if they just weren’t so hell-bent on destroying their own reputations.

According to a Nobel Prize winner in Economics: $3 trillion.  And counting.

And, he adds, this is probably on the low side.

I touched on some of this in Trebekistan, in the bits about encoding information so that it could be retrieved in competitive conditions.

But the more scientists learn, the cooler this stuff gets.