It is still cold and snowing in southern Ontario as winter drags on. I have read that spring will come early this year, but it hasn’t yet. I recall that it didn’t come early in 2018, and when it did it was cool and wet. In any case, a warm, early spring would be a welcome thing around here. Have you ever heard of The Great Filter? It’s a theory that explains why, despite the billions of sun like stars in the universe, that we haven’t found any evidence of life outside of the

The book I am reading now I bought on my birthday trip in Toronto last weekend. Its titled ‘Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom’. It is excellent. They were contemporaries, knew of each other but they were from different classes and their paths never crossed. Yet they both fought for the freedom and sanctity of the individual and their right to think and say what they believed. A fight that is not over by any means. The Deep Mind supercomputer and its AI program Alpha

Last night I watched an old movie called Fail Safe. It was set in the 1960’s. It was in black and white. There were only a few female characters and no one who wasn’t white. The special effects were laughable. But despite its dated nature, it was terrifying. The plot of the film was that a squadron of US bombers carrying nuclear weapons lose contact with Strategic Air Command and as a result attack the Soviet Union. Three things made it frightening. One, the film makers under