What current events besides politics and terrorism interest you right now?

Well, I loved the story that in Sweden you can hire someone to babysit your sourdough starter while you’re taking your 5-week vacation. And that in South Korea you can rent people to attend your wedding so your guest list looks impressively long. These might not be hot news, but they’re interesting.

Also Sweden has set up a hotline where people around the world can phone and chat with a random Swede.

And Cape Breton Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, has set up a website to encourage the immigration of Americans who want to flee to Canada if Trump wins.

Stephen Hawking is backing space exploration to Alpha Centari.

The FBI still doesn’t give a damn about the privacy you should be able to enjoy on your iPhone.

Now the Senate is getting involved.

Antibiotic resistant “superbugs” and the Zika virus.

In no particular order…

1)
Space exploration always interests me. Landing on Mars, landing on an asteroid, photographing Pluto…the stories are nearly unbelievable.

2)
In the past year I’ve come to understand how self-driving cars will fit into society. It’s going to reduce the need for car ownership and parking in dense neighborhoods when the cars can go hang out in remote areas until they’re needed.

3)
The New Yorker recently published a Gay Talese story about a motel owner who built an attic catwalk and special vents to watch his guests have sex for decades. He kept a detailed journal of every episode. His first wife participated and after she died he found ANOTHER woman who would marry him and watch the show. WHAT FREAKS!

The injection of INVEGA TRINZA® . For schizophrenia. The medicine three month supply per needle. Trials soon.

Brazil. How it got the Olympics, how it’s going to pull a decent Olympics off, and the current political mess.

The housing market.

North Korea and Kim Jong Un.
What’s to be gained by alienating every other nation on Earth?
A day in the life of an average North Korean.

I like reading books about climate change.

…I like learning about things that reinforce my worldview.

The Warriors set a record for winningest season.

The Keystone pipeline has sprung a leak. Day four of Democracy Spring, hundreds of arrests, almost zreo media coverage.

All environmental issues, particularly the species threatened with extinction, wildlife habitats being eradicated, forest destruction, ocean pollution, temperature change and acidification, climate change in general, the Tar Sands and Keystone pipeline, GMO labeling, water privatization, fracking.

@ibstubro, that’s an interest that I share. I follow the news stories, read books, and see documentaries about NK. And every one of them adds something new, while overall they corroborate one another.

Britain’s referendum on staying in Europe, migrants and refugees in Europe and Britain, economy, general politics on education, health, social services, and social housing, Scotland, foreign policy and aid, housing market, steel industry and other failing industries in Britain, agriculture and supermarkets.