‘Mind Captioning’ Brain Tech Translates What You’re Seeing (And Imagining) Into Words

Good luck trying to translate the random things popping into and out of my noggin

Man, 22, fights for life after swallowing a whole burger without chewing it ‘for a joke’

Yeah, don’t do that. What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done just to be funny?

I’m trying something a little different, sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 5: Chaos and Controversy as Cruise Ship Passengers Return to a Changed World

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

The Last Four Years Ch. 4 | The Last Four Years Ch. 3 | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 | The Last Four Years Ch. 1

Also Worth A Look…

• Raising kids is too expensive, most Americans say in new survey - Jimmy McMillan could launch a new campaign and he’d probably do pretty well

• Musk Envisions Tesla Robots Performing Surgery - I don’t I’d be all that anxious to sign up to be the first person to try that out

• AI Teddy Bear Recalled After Giving Kids Sexual Advice - Maybe the AI Teddy Bears can perform surgery on people instead

• Batch of declassified U.S. government records on aviator Amelia Earhart released - She’s still missing

• Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable “Super-Earth” Just 18 Light-Years Away - I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. That’s close in interstellar terms, but it would still take Voyager 2 about 194,000 years to go that far. So we won’t be visiting any time soon

• Woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank account from Space Station - That’s definitely gotta be a first for the United States space program

• Cops: Distracted Driver Was Relieving Self - When you gotta go, you gotta go

• Yellowstone visitors stunned as man seemingly provokes wolf pack - That’s… probably not a very good idea. I realize that a lot of people are probably having their first interaction with real wild animals, but why do people do so many stupid things at Yellowstone

• Is that a parrot in your pocket? Man charged with smuggling heavily sedated parakeets in his pants at US-Mexico border - If you can think of a better way to transport heavily sedated parakeets, I’d like to hear it

• Dog Shoots Owner After He Left Shotgun on His Bed, Pennsylvania Police Say - I hope this isn’t the beginning of some kind of doggo uprising. I’m not sure we’d be able to handle that