This little video was done months ago, but it does a good, quick job of explaining how the immune system works –  including those B- and T-cells you’ve probably heard about…

My brother Andrew sent this link to me recently. He said:

I heard this podcast the other day and have been sharing it with friends of various political orientations, to rave reviews. It’s two rather conservative types, but it’s not political: it’s just damned interesting, so smart and funny. A real pleasurable conversation to drop in on if you can find the time.

I was taken by it within the first 30 seconds…

Click here.

Joy, my manicurist, took this shot the other day. She thought it was “funny and dumb.”

I get the wheelchair accessible sign and the baby sign, because those indicate the facilities inside. But why the three gender-preference images? Why not 64?

What they should have is an image of a toilet and, if relevant, a urinal. If you are abandoning gender restrictions, that’s all you need.

Here’s a video clip on an old thought experiment on what makes us… us:

Sometimes… when the police are too busy doing other things… you have to take the law into your own hands.

La Guardia Cross has developed a large YouTube following. Views of his show, New Father Chronicles, range from 100,000 to over a million. That’s not surprising when you see his videos. He’s got two young daughters that are whip-smart and adorable. His schtick is to ask them questions, but in a unique and clever way – more Charlie Rose than Art Linkletter.

In this episode, he has them competing against one another in a game-show format. The topic: Who knows more about Mommy?

Interested in what Suzanne is doing? Send her your email address – to suzanne@fordfineart.com – and she will put you on her mailing list.

Is this guy being kicked off the plane because the Southwest ground operators are racist?

Southwest Airlines has a history of treating its passengers like suspects. In this latest example, a Black man is banned from boarding a flight because he gets upset when a White woman cuts ahead of him in line.

Did these Southwest employees handle the situation correctly? Would they have done the same if the man were White? You decide.

I love TED Talks like this. Here’s an academician explaining a cognitive bias that is very basic knowledge for any good marketer as if it’s an amazing psychological revelation.

I’m curious… Is this “dilution trick” new to you?

Richard III by William Shakespeare

ACT I

SCENE I. London. A street.

Enter GLOUCESTER, solus

GLOUCESTER

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,
About a prophecy, which says that ‘G’
Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be.

Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here

Clarence comes.