More New Ideas

Now I have a better understanding of why the wheels of justice grind slowly.  Jury duty has been filled with frequent and lengthy breaks.

One benefit: I've now read about every single idea of the 74 discussed in the annual Times Magazine "Year in Ideas" issue.  While I still have a sentimental attachment to the Journal of Spurious Correlations, many other items are also noteworthy.

To take a few examples:

1. Indian scientists are working on salt that doesn't stick to the shaker when it's humid (cool, but not essential). 

2. Humans and chimps may have mated at one time in our evolutionary past, bringing a bestial dimension to our typical understanding of Darwin (gross, but probably true). 

3. And an expert at the CIA has gone far beyond "if you're not with us you're against us" to produce an innovative scale of the likelihood that an Islamic zealot will become a threatening terrorist (important, but hopefully not too little too late).

Try it, you'll like it. Check out the ideas and see which ones strike your fancy or cause you to think about the world in new ways.