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Carpool Karaoke with 'Hamilton' creator is the sing-along Broadway dreams are made of
Nothing makes for a better sing-a-long than a packed car full of
Broadway performers.
James Corden, who is hosting the 2016 Tony Awards, clearly knows this
well — in the most recent episode of Carpool Karaoke, he's joined by
board-treading legends Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler
Ferguson and Jane Krakowski on a harmony-filled tour of New York.
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Video of killer whale beaching at water park prompts outrage
Footage of a captive killer whale beaching itself after a show at a
Tenerife water park has caused indignation on social media, prompting
calls for the giant animal to be returned to the wild.
Morgan, the orca, is seen deliberately pulling itself out of the water
at Loro Parque in the Canary island and laying motionless for several
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New exosuit can offer superhuman strength
A new robotic suit called Superflex is able to augment the wearer's
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Witchdoctors blaming climate change for storms again
Collaroy Beach 1967 … Seas Pound Beachfront, Collaroy and Manly. Weds
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to prevent the huge seas from further undermining home units and a
house which has been in danger for several days.” Roger Franklin at
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Collaroy Storm of 1945. Houses washed away, Collaroy B
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Bernie Sanders is taking a big risk: If he doesn’t drop out soon, he could become a villain
Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)
With California and New Jersey voters weighing in soon, I’m still
optimistic that reason will ultimately win the day and Bernie Sanders
will do the right thing by conceding the election to Hillary Clinton.
Even though his language, and especially the language of his long-time
political adviser Jeff Weaver has been decidedly caustic and stubborn, t
Trump Time Capsule #17: ‘30 Ways He Is Committing Political Suicide’
Republican Senator Mark Kirk, in a difficult race for re-election to
the seat Barack Obama once held in Illinois, announcing today that he
was withdrawing his support for Trump.#17, June 7, 2016. ‘30 Ways Trump
is Committing Political Suicide’As I was about to push “publish” on this
item, news arrived of a significant official defection from Team Trump.
Republican Senator Mark Kirk, in a very diff
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“There’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of
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FILE - In this March 10, 2016, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Graham said March 17
that he'll help fellow Sen. Ted Cruz raise campaign cash in hopes of
stopping Donald Trump's march toward the Republican presidential
nomination. Graham dropped his own longshot candidacy in December and
has been a scathing critic of the Texas Republican i
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Fish can recognize human faces, new study shows
A species of tropical fish has been shown to be able to distinguish
between human faces. It is the first time fish have demonstrated this
ability.
Prototype gravitational wave spacecraft sets new free fall record
A key component of a future gravitational wave observatory passed a
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true free fall than any other human-made object ever has. At the heart
of the experiment is a two-kilogram cube of a high-purity gold and
platinum alloy that is currently sailing through space almost completely
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Fish can recognize human faces, study shows
A species of tropical fish has been shown to be able to distinguish
between human faces. It is the first time fish have demonstrated this
ability.
Long-term marijuana use changes brain's reward circuit
Researchers have demonstrated that long-term marijuana users had more
activity in the brain's reward processes when presented with cannabis
cues than with natural reward cues.
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How Eating Venomous Lionfish Helps the Environment
Now you can do your part to fight the invasive lionfish—by ordering a
delectable dish from a dinner menu. Divers and chefs are promoting a
gastronomical way to control the venomous lionfish population in
Florida's coastal waters by introducing the invasive species to the
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harming native wildlife and habitat. But Pot Roast &
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BMW M2: a perfect sports car for $52,000
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London’s Batwomen and Batmen Offer Lessons in Urban Coexistence
Bat ecologists seek to minimize the impact of development on one of our key and imperiled pollinators
Australia’s Censorship of Unesco Climate Report is Like a Shakespearean Tragedy
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Principals should be elected to four year rotations
Like a lot of things in today’s pubic schools, the principal is a
position that harks back to factory models of schooling. The building
principal is a middle-level manager, a waypoint between the rank and
file teacher and central management. In highly centralized and
hierarchical school systems, perhaps in many urban school districts with
highly […]
This is how I feel sometimes #PFKboom
I’m not conflating any issues here. What I am talking about is passion
and emotion. This video of a Baltimore activist has popped up several
times on my feed. I’ve watched it numerous times with great
satisfaction. It’s not that I have any connection whatsoever to what is
going on in Baltimore. But there is […]
From Neurons to Neighborhoods
An expansive report on the impacts of trauma and poverty on early
childhood development has been making the rounds in some of my circles
this weekend. Although originally written in 2000, there have been some
updates made to the conclusions and recommendations. This thing is
massive and you can download it for free. The introduction is […]
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Formatting HTML, a detail
On the econ blog I'm complaining about Martin Feldstein. Yeah you
should have heard of him // I'm not gonna say who he is // It doesn't
matter anyway.I looked him up on Wikipedia. Copied the first paragraph
& pasted into my blog. Pasted it in the "compose" view. That way
the links and HTML formatting gets pasted in, along with the text. So I
get to see how (in this case) Wikipedi
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Should I forget who I am, please give me the music to remind me
If you haven’t already seen the 2014 documentary “Alive Inside,”
fire up Netflix tonight and watch it. And as soon as it’s done and
you’ve mopped up what might very well be a small bucket of sad-happy
tears at all the lives changed by something so small, you just might
want to get started on your own music playlist. The documentary is
about a quest to give people back their music, most
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US Potty Panic Hysteria - Multimedia edition
You're all going to HellA freshman U.S. Congressman quickly made a name
for himself Thursday morning at a weekly early morning meeting of
Republican lawmakers. GOP Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia quoted Bible verses
and told his fellow Republicans that they are "going to hell" if they
vote for the a vital spending bill later that morning because of an
attached amendment that would protect LGB
A US Potty Panic Roundup
Anyone who's been watching the US political scene recently must be
wondering if they've all suddenly gone crayzeee.The State of North
Carolina was first cab off the rank. You see, the city of Charlotte,
after years of debate and study, passed an ordinance that added 9 words
to existing legislation.Sec. 12-58. - Prohibited acts.(a) It shall be
unlawful to deny any person the full and equal enjoymen
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Trump And Hitler / Both Rose From Political Apathy And Oppression
Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump both have been spawned from the same
swamp of political apathy and oppression and both share the same ego
driven fascist arrogance, sense of entitlement and aversion to empathy ~
which unfortunately mirrors the mindset of a growing majority of
America's electorate: Allen L Roland, PhD “The most dangerous man to
any government is the man who is able to think things ou
Support The Troops / Empty Words For Betrayed Disabled Veterans
Pause this Memorial Day for a few moments and watch this documentary on
how America has in many ways treated many of its active duty veterans
like Lab Rats for the past 100 years ~ from WW I through the Gulf Wars,
and still continues to pander or answer to the Military Industrial
Complex: Allen L Roland, PhD and Disabled US Navy Veteran. On Memorial
Day, politicians will speak at patriotic cerem
Looking For God / Within The Kingdom Of Religious Confusion ~ Book Review
A layman's odyssey every 'open-minded' Atheist, Jew, Christian, Muslim,
Agnostic or Spiritual seeker must read!Art Schade's tour de force work
of creative fiction which focuses on looking for God in a world of
religious confusion brought me face to face with how differently,
regardless of religion, we all interpret God in a time of crisis ~ and
yet how similar many of these interpretations seem to
The Ultimate Graduation Speech By Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone / Filmmaker Oliver Stone just gave the ultimate
commencement address at the University of Connecticut and it was
remarkable for both its candor and cold hard truth ~ for what the
average college graduate of today will most likely be facing in our
interconnected world is that the ultimate gift they are searching for
may just be the act of finding themselves and making a difference: All
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2 out of 3 potholes fixed
I recently wrote about some potholes.
I notified the council, and lo and behold, they’ve had a go at fixing
them:
Two of the three appear to have been fixed. The third one is still
there, unfixed: it has a depression where the buses’ offside front wheel
stops, and with a corresponding hump as the tarmac has been moved
nearer to the pavement. I see this a lot at Edinburgh bus stops, but I
have nev
Trump and Clinton are both unpopular; Sanders should run
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular mainstream
candidates since records began, as this chart shows:
If Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, as she may well do, Sanders
should run as an independent, because he would have a very good chance
of winning.
If he does, Hillary supporters would no doubt cry foul, and accuse him
of being a spoiler and not a real Democrat anyway.
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Support the Leonard Peltier Statue Project / Take Action w/ Amnesty USA
Take Action by joining Amnesty International USA's call for President
Obama to release Leonard Peltier!Featured below is the full post from
the Leonard Peltier Statue Project:9″ epoxy resin model, Alcatraz Prison
Mess Hall, February 13, 2016 – First “Indians of All Tribes Day.”As you
might already know, Leonard Peltier has now spent four entire decades
behind bars for a crime he has not committed.
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MIRVS!
“MIRV” stands for Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicles,
the ability to put lots of very accurate nuclear warheads on a single
missile. Michael Krepon watched the US-Soviet arms race dangerously
accelerate as both sides deployed large numbers of MIRVed missiles in
the 1970s. Now other countries, like China and India, seem to be heading
down this …
The Humanitarian Pledge, Nuclear Weapons, and the Laws of War
Dear Readers of ACW: I have posted the perspectives of others in this
space on whether the explosive use of nuclear weapons can be reconciled
with the laws of war. This discussion is useful, in my view, because it
clarifies that the continued abundance of nuclear weapons held by the
United States and the Russian …
Python Library for Nuclear Weapons Effects
Edward Geist has created a Python library of nuclear weapons effects,
including Soviet models. If there was ever a reason for this blog to
exist, announcing something like this is pretty much it. Introducing
GLASSTONE—a Python library for modeling nuclear weapons effects Edward
Geist Unfortunately, the public has been kept in the dark about nuclear …
Announcing Geo4Nonpro!
There’s a lot of hype about the use of both commercial satellite
imagery and crowdsourcing for verification activities. Well, I decided
to put those two hands together and build a website with Jeffrey and
Catherine (it’s why you haven’t heard from me in forever). Welcome to
www.geo4nonpro.org! The idea is to invite a “curated” crowd …
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Sponsored Post: FT Pub Quiz Takes Look at Wacky 2016 Election Season
By MARC McDONALDAs many pundits have noted, this has been one of the
most wacky and bizarre political campaign seasons in decades. And I
sometimes wonder if we've ever faced an election where the voters were
less informed on the issues, and the candidates, than they are today.I
recall reading once about the early days of television. The great TV
pioneer Philo Farnsworth, among others, had high hop
Progressive Music Classics. The Clash: "Something About England"
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music
Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of
working-class people around the world.One of the highlights of The
Clash's 1980 underrated masterpiece, Sandinista! is the haunting
"Something About England," a song that gives a whirlwind tour of the
disasters of the 20th century. Although the song was r
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Bullying Is NOT Leadership Mr. Trudeau.
Bullying is not leadership, whether it is invoking Closure on an
important Bill or testosteronic rampaging on the floor of the House of
Commons which injured a fellow Member of Parliament. Just sayin' :(
"Trudeau's Rampage"
Trudeau's Rampage it is :)
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Dear friends, Normally I would find the video on YouTube and put it in a
blog re-post. However, there was no YouTube version. Why? Likely
because
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Cherchez la Verite
From two lines in this article: "[I]t was Mrs. Clinton who hectored her
husband into bowing to a chorus of neoconservative and liberal
interventionist voices and finally giving the order to bomb the former
Yugoslavia." Continuing… "...Serbs in the northern part of the country
were demanding some form of local autonomy to stave off violent attacks
by Kosovar ultra-nationalists." Long story short, Kosovo and Serbia were
abutting provinces in the former Yugoslavia, and the former was
attacking the latter ...supported by Hillary. Flash back to early 2001.
The blogger (Dave Griscom) was an Invited Professor of Research at
Universtiés de Paris 6 & 7 and, most improbably, a Serbian professor
was also invited at the same time doing the exactly the same kind of
research! Thus we had to take turns using the main instrument called an
ESR spectrometer (see the photo of us in front of this instrument
below). We immediately became great friends and corresponded for some
time. Then all of a sudden…
Kosovo: Hillary Clinton’s Legacy of TerrorThe “liberation” of Kosovo
unleashed radical Islamism in Europeby Justin Raimondo, May 25, 2016
Kosovo is Clinton Country: a 10-foot-high statue of Bill overlooks “Bill
Clinton Boulevard” in the capital city of Pristina. Hillary is also
memorialized in what has become the crime capital of Europe: right off
the street named for her husband is a store named
Do you ever wonder why Paul Craig Roberts refers to Hillary Clinton as
"Killary"? Well read this. This artical was composed by Michael Collins,
a friend of mine who writes factual articals on places and people that
most U.S. readers would not learn about from the so-called "mainstream
media".
What about violence from the Clinton campaign?Posted on May 18, 2016 by
Michael CollinsBy Michael Collins (Creative Commons 4.0)Some rough
housing at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend
shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians
of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce
their actions. The double standard on this issue is s
Michael Hudson has long believed to me and others as the top economist
looking after the rights of the people of the US and Europe. However, my
attention to this particular Hudson column was thanks to ace economist
Paul Craig Roberts, who summerized it in this way: "In his May 9, 2016,
speech to European medical professionals, Michael Hudson points out that
the result of TTIP for Europe will be the privatization of health care
systems with the associated much higher costs. Hudson’s accurate
description of TTIP shows that politically powerful corporations have
gained the power in Western “democracies” to sacrifice the welfare of
all populations to corporate greed for profit regardless of the cost to
peoples, countries, and societies."
MAY 11, 2016 The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP's Threat to
Europe's Elderly by Michael
Hudson
Buy his bookThe most obvious approach to look at how European care for
the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs
of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug trea
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The Curious Case of Michael Sona
These few lines at Radio Canada and Adam Donaldson's Guelph Politico
Blog are the only mentions I have found anywhere that Michael Sona,
convicted of aiding and abetting unknown perp(s) in an unsolved crime of
unknown proportions, lost his sentence appeal last Wednesday and headed
back to jail to serve out his nine month sentence.Sona, with nothing to
deal and no electronic or material evidence of
Pay to Play in BC with Spectra
Six years ago the BC government decided not to bother doing its own
environmental assessments any more because it was so much more efficient
to hand that responsibility over to the industry-captured federal
National Energy Board for rubber-stamping. That deal was called the
Environmental Assessment Equivalency Agreement. In January the BC
Supreme Court ruled that the BC government did not have the
National Energy Board Ok's Trans Mountain Pipeline
You're shocked, I'm sure.National Energy Board presser in Calgary
today, Robert Steedman : "The NEB recommends that the Government of
Canada find the Trans Mountain expansion project to be in Canada's
public interest. ... The project would not likely cause significant
environmental effects."The Texas-based Kinder Morgan twinned pipeline
will run from Alberta to Burnaby and Burrard Inlet
Marc Mayrand on Election Reform and Referendum
Elections Canada CEO Marc Mayrand at PROC (Procedures Committee),
excerpted :"With a majority government in place, as well as a fixed
election date of October 21, 2019, there is an opportunity now to bring
the electoral process, currently anchored in the 19th century, in line
with contemporary Canadian expectations."On holding an election reform
referendum as advocated by the Cons :"
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LifeSite Is Just Embarassing Itself: Fetal Pain Redux
They really got nuthin'. Look at this from yesterday's LieShite.The
Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] is facing calls to
retract a 2005 study that pro-lifers have labeled a “propaganda tool”
for abortion activists.In 2016, fetus freaks are attacking a study from
2005 still deployed to refute the BAD (biased, agenda-driven) science
used to pass "fetal pain" laws, lowering
New! Fraudster Certification
Hey, fetus freaks! Want to make money from your fetish? Of course you
do!Get certified in Fake Clinic Management!OKWU [Oklahoma Wesleyan
University] is launching an “applied bioethics” certificate program this
July that will train students in pro-life activism and pregnancy center
management. It’s a partnership with the Life Training Institute and
Care Net.The "credits" will be transferr
Fake Clinics Respond! With More Lies!
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on Abortion Rights Coalition of
Canada's (ARCC) review of websites for 166 fake clinics, aka crisis
pregnancy centres. (PDF link to entire study.)LifeShite has since
published a hilarious "rebuttal" that says, in essence, "sure, we lie,
but we could lie a LOT more."Some examples: [Jared] White [executive
director of Advokate Life and Education
SHOCKER! Fake Clinics Lie
The Abortion Rights Coalition has released a major study into the
online presence of Canadian fake clincs, or crisis pregnancy centres
(full PDF report).From the press release:Anti-abortion counselling
agencies in Canada often present misinformation on their websites or
fail to disclose their anti-choice or religious agenda to prospective
clients, according to a new study published today by the Ab
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