Seinfeld for all
Published 4:57 pm Wednesday, January 6, 2016
‘Seinfeld’ for all
Netflix and chill the champagne: Netflix more than tripled the countries it reaches by adding 130 on Wednesday to the 60 existing it serves. The only countries Netflix is avoiding are China, North Korea, Syria and Crimea (Page A9).
Negotiations with China are difficult. And U.S. businesses can’t do business with Crimea. But in North Korea and Syria the TV subscription service doesn’t want its popular pastime there to be known as “Netflix and kill.”
Speaking of which: North Korea claims to have successfully tested its “H-bomb of Justice” (Page A8).
While condemning the nuclear test, other countries doubted the H-bomb claim and believe the test was of the less impressive “A-bomb of Starving Citizens.”
A long time ago, in a star cluster far, far away: An astrophysicist’s new theory posits that star clusters on the fringes of our galaxy are the most likely home for intelligent life because they are older, stable and dense enough to allow advanced civilizations to hop from planet to planet (Page A2).
Having reached the point in life where we’re also older, stable and dense, we’d have to agree with her on our intelligence.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
