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November 29, 2024 Happy Black Friday. We hope you find some good deals in stores and online. Remember that Cyber Monday is coming up next. Hint: most retailers have expanded "black Friday" sales to the entire holiday season. No need to rush. No need to overspend. Was this year the most expensive Thanksgiving in U.S. history?  No. Although it felt expensive, this year's average Thanksgiving dinner was about 5% less than last year according to the economists keeping track. Reportedly, the average meal for 10 people was $58 this year ($5.80) per person. Supposedly, last year was about 5% more, mainly because turkeys were 6% more expensive last year.  For most Americans, food prices seem and feel very expensive. They seem to increase overall year by year. In fact, with the exception of the 1930s after the Great Depression, and between 2007 and 2008 after the Great Recession, food prices have gone up almost every year since economists have been tracking.  Moderate inflation is...

November 28, 2024 Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you had a wonderful day with your relatives or friends. In this post, we go off topic to write a little about travel influencers.  There are many wonderful travel YouTube channels out there. There are solo travelers, couples, families, young, senior, LGBTQ, etc. Most content is published in English, but you can also find travel vlogs (video blogs) in almost every major language. Actually, the most popular channel based on total subscriptions and views is in Spanish, and the second one is is in Brazilian Portuguese.  Below is a list of the Top 40 Travel Youtubers follow by a list of a few historical figures that documented their travels centuries before the internet and social media.  In our opinion, the most influential travel influencer of all times was Marco Polo. What do you think?    Top 40 Travel YouTubers  Luisito Comunica (43.5M subscribers, 4.2B views): Luis Arturo Villar Sudek, known as Luisito Comunic...

November 26, 2024 What can we learn about cells and neurons? A lot. We're just beginning and we are enjoying it. Human life is a complex cellular network. Our guess or hope is that by learning more about cells and how they work, we can gradually learn more about how we can stay in that state of being "alive" and how we can manage to enjoy this experience called life.  All life on Earth is cellular life. There are no exceptions. If it's alive, it is composed of one or more cells. Humans are composed of trillions of cells. Men are in average a cluster of 37 trillion cells. Women are a cluster of 28 trillion cells. The difference is due that men have more red blood cells. By the way, about 80% of all cells in the human body are red blood cells. Not counting red blood cells, it can be said that both men and women are about 7 trillion cells. We are trillionaires no matter how we look at it.  Cells can be categorized as generic (stem) or specialized. All cells, specialized ...

November 25, 2024 Is it time for Mark Zuckerberg to buy or copy Cameo?   Yes, absolutely. Personalized videos are today's equivalent of autographs and autographed memorabilia. Cameo was a pioneer in the personalized video scene and still has some clout in the segment. Meta should definitely look into acquiring Cameo. If an acquisition doesn't work, Meta can employ its typical Replicative Innovation Practices (RIP) to copy, relaunch, improve, monetize, and expand (CRIME) the Cameo concept.  What is the Cameo App? Cameo is a popular mobile app where users can purchase personalized video messages from celebrities. The platform allows fans to connect with their favorite celebrities by requesting personalized videos for special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and other celebrations. Celebrities, ranging from actors and musicians to athletes and influencers, set their own prices for creating these personalized shout-outs. The videos are typically short, ranging from a ...

November 25, 2024 Why there's no I in You? There's no single or singular I in you. You are a cellular network of about 37 trillion cells. 100 billion specialized cells in your central nervous system (CNS) make up the "you" that you are most conscious about. Human life is a complex cellular network. Each cell contains the entire DNA "keyboard" with about 25,000 keys (genes) that influence the activities and functions of each cell. There are zillions of things that we still don't understand about how cellular processes work. That speaks volumes about their complexity with zillions of interactive processes that have evolved over billions of years and that continue to adapt to environmental circumstances and changes. Having said that, we can all rest assured that there's no magic involved. It's all work. In this post, we look briefly into biological cells. The more that we can learn about how cells work, the more we can gradually learn about ourselve...

November 22, 2024 Can AI predict what Donald Trump will say or do? Is that a risk to our National Security? What can be done about it? Yes, of course, absolutely, no doubt about it. AI transformer based language learning models can easily predict what Trump will say or do in any given situation. That is a risk to National Security as everything else related to Donald Trump and to our Constitutional framework of assigning so much power to one human being. There is not much to do about it other than continue increasing the use of AI in all societal aspects including governance and decision-making.  In the future, the use of AI may be institutionalized use across government. Governmental decisions could be made by committees informed by AI rather than by a single individual. Future Constitutional amendments may replace the President with the Presidents (plural). The Presidential Committee (PC) may be composed of a minimum of three decision-makers: a man, a woman, and an AI chatbot. Al...