In Brief

Despite worldwide chaos, including here in the USA, advances are being made. Here’s one out of Liverpool, UK, a prosthetic eye, in this case designed for a little girl who lost an eye to cancer. Photo by Danny Lawson/PA, posted at theguardian.com:

Headline from foxnews.com: “The world’s 1st ‘test tube baby’ turns 46 years old, over 6 million babies born through IVF since 1978.”

Mini-disaster: my remote control fell beside my futon and must have been perfectly placed beneath a foot that rests an inch above the floor. When I bent to retrieve it, the eye was crushed beyond repair. I programmed a backup set that has brought in only a few stations, all PBS. Fie!

Great news for Kamala Harris: second quarter GDP came in at 2.8%. AI may yet save the Dems come November.

The weather pattern seemed to be changing by the end of today’s session of the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. Cloud cover and a nice breeze made conditions benign, and the humidity seemed to be dropping, hallelujah! My thanks to the woman who donated a bunch of awesome pictorials, and to the Latino restaurant worker who bought Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (1999) and Hancock (2008) on DVD, and a Mozart CD and the South Pacific soundtrack from the 2001 TV movie starring Glenn Close; and to the young woman who purchased Beastly by Alex Flinn; and to the one who chose The Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman; and to the one who selected a wonderfully illustrated kids’ book focusing on bears; and to Reggie, who hopes to tell his life story through a medium he hasn’t decided on, who took home Spiritual Practices for Soul Care by Barbara L. Peacock, The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary by Sue Young, and Billionths of a Lifetime by yours truly. Good luck, young man. Here’s a look inside that dictionary:

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