Monday, May 27, 2019

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  • A remarkable gathering when more than 5,000 schools came together boasting approximately 1 million children meditating for world peace at the Phra Shammakaya Temple in Thailand...
  • Most of you know that pets give unconditional, nonjudgmental love. They are the first to welcome you home, even if you late. Pets are constant companionship, and they depend on you...

    • Have you ever noticed that the same numbers keep showing up over and over again? Your morning coffee at your corner cafe cost $2.22. You have two missed calls on your mobile from a number...

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  • A team of researchers behind a new study believe that an EEG could be a noninvasive and affordable way to detect Parkinson’s disease.
  • New research examined several plants that people have used to treat cancer since ancient times. The study identified five plants with anticancer benefits...

    • A new study in mice suggests that a combination of antibiotics may reduce the buildup of amyloid plaques, but only in male brains.

  • Former FBI general counsel James Baker said Friday he viewed the Steele dossier “skeptically” and was “concerned” about the veracity of the document when the bureau received...
  • Robert O’Rourke’s presidential campaign is being threatened with fines over unpaid bills related to police services for his El Paso announcement at the end of March. KTSM reports...

    • A heat wave will intensify in the Southeast in the week ahead, likely lasting at least through Memorial Day weekend, potentially threatening all-time May record highs in parts of...

  • On April 2nd, the Delaware Public Integrity Commission wrote a letter to the Odyssey Charter School Board of Directors which showcased a plethora of financial improprieties, conflicts...
  • After the State Board of Education put Odyssey Charter School under formal review last night, school leaders wrote a letter to the Odyssey community with a response.  In addition...

    • Yesterday, the Delaware State Board of Education voted in the majority to put Odyssey Charter School under formal review for six violations of Delaware state code. For the past year...

  • TweetHigh-end for-profit private schools are a growing segment of the education ‘marketplace.’ In this episode, we’re joined by Mike Levy, former curriculum director at...
  • TweetNo excuses-style charter schools, known for rigid discipline and a college prep focus have seen explosive growth in urban areas over the past decade. And supporters of the model...

    • TweetDeep spending cuts and ballooning class sizes are coming to Ontario. Have You Heard talks to parents, students and teachers in Toronto about what controversial changes proposed...

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  • Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy has created a less stable world by Dr.Fareed Zakaria https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2019/5/16/trumps-america-first-philosophy-has-created-a-less-stable-world...
  • Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity   May 13, 2019 by Murray Hunter Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity Love him or hate him...

    • National service can mend the country The following column is adapted from Fareed Zakaria’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2019. It’s graduation season...

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  • It has often been asserted that the US doesn’t need to worry overmuch about our position in Manufacturing, because Services are the future and that is where we will have the most competitive...
  • Bafflement

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  • Speaking as one who formerly identified as a feminist, of the reasonable ‘small-f’ variety, when it meant equal opportunity for education, employment, the same pay for doing...

    • It’s damned rare, when you read the histories of the Second World War, that you can definitively find a place where one man, with the right skills, at the right place, at the right time...

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  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on May 27, 2019 by Menagerie Today all across this great land we call America, we pause to remember those who have fallen. We give thanks...
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union Re-Posted May 26, 2019 by Martin Armstrong Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a snap election after disappointing results...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted May 26, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Why is Brexit important to USA? HN ANSWER: Besides the fact that the political turmoil...

  • The federal courts, so far anyway, are holding up well amidst the Constitutional Crisis foisted upon the nation with President Donald Trump's attempts to stymie all Congressional...
  • News item: Boris Johnson is the favorite to succeed British PM Theresa May * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas...

    • I'm Angie Coiro of In Deep Radio, here on today's BradCast to give Brad and Des a breather. They're back post-holiday! As I note in the show (audio link below) you don't have to agree with...

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  • Julia Ward was born in New York City on May 27, 1819. She was an intelligent, inquisitive child who read voraciously, studied philosophy and literature, and became fluent in seven...

  • In memoriam

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    • American composer and pianist William Bolcom (b. 1938) wrote “Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise” in 1980 for his wife and collaborator, Joan Morris, and the two...

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  • A moving new film about U.S. Atomic Veterans and their own physical suffering and mental anguish. Screened by The Atlantic The description from The Atlantic. Nearly everyone who’s...
  • The Davis-Besse atomic reactor, and the Great Lake, Erie, beyond, which it puts at ever increasing risk of radioactive catastropheBeyond Nuclear is thankful to our many friends...

    • A big expose about corruption at Holtec on ProPublica today. Here's the headline: A False Anwer, A Big Political Connection and $260 Million In Tax Breaks. Holtec International gave...

  • Back in 2017, Elon Musk had grand visions for the test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. The Boring Company’s tunneling work was closely...
  • The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive...

    • AT&T has come a long way from the supernormative, feel-good messages of its You Will ads; now CEO Randall Stephenson predicts a future where his company will dynamically...

  • By David Robson. The research continues to prove that the subject of wisdom is worthy of rigorous experimental study.
  • By Matthew Warren. The way we use our aesthetic intuitions could have important implications, the researchers say.

    • By Emma Young. The most significant and strongest risk factor was a high level of interpersonal difficulties.

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  • When the Star Mosque (or Tara Masjid in Bengali) in Dhaka was first built in the first half of the 19th century, the original Mughal design included a large dome in the center and two...
  • Just outside the beautiful city of QuerĂ©taro, towering above an arid landscape of scrubland, looms the desolate stone ruins of a pyramid known alternately as El Cerrito and El Pueblito...

    • When Pasadena pioneer Levi W. Giddings lost his daughter, Laura, he customarily buried her on private property belonging to a friend, Colonel Jabez Banbury. But when Banbury sold...

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  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments - with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it...
  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jo Davies points out the widespread recognition that Canadian corporations need to pay their fair share for a functional society. And Eric...

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Leslie Hook offers a reminder of the dangers of methane as a particularly damaging type of carbon emission which is both associated largely...

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