Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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  • In the 1700s a Danish naval captain documented and sketched a fourth great pyramid of Giza, along with the three that we know about today. The mystery of that lost fourth pyramid may...
  • The walls at Chernobyl are being covered by a strange fungus that actually eats and grows on radiation. In 1986, the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were undergoing routine...
    • Nikola Tesla started his career with much promise as one of the foremost intellects of his (or any) time and ended it broke and despairing in a New York City hotel room in 1943. Why did...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • No Blue Collar Boom, but a Bubble Close to Bursting: Wall Street’s Demands for Subsidized 14-Day Repo Money Exceed Offerings from New York Fed on Tuesday and Thursday; Suspicions...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, February 6, 2020 Trump’s East Room Performance Packed with Sinister Threats to Romney...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 5, 2020 In State of the Union Address, Trump Raves About Best U.S. Economy in History...
  • Fraud in a German laboratory has cast additional doubts on the 2017 re-approval of glyphosate and on the entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure, Pesticide Action Network...
  • In today’s society people are choosing to have fewer children, and delaying having children at all into later, less fertile years. These two factors have driven fertility rates...
    • Corteva Agriscience will end production of the highly toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos by the end of this year. The company, formerly part of Dow Chemical, has been under increasing...
  • South / North
  • South / North
    • Arctic is within one Standard Deviation and it’s the 15th lowest. 2018 2017 2005 2019 2006 2014 2016 2011 2010 2007 2012 2015 2013 2004 2020 South / North...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The world’s rivers are under unprecedented pressure from contamination, damming, and diversion, which are straining water resources, destroying ecosystems, jeopardizing...
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was set to become the world’s largest free trade agreement. But India’s withdrawal from it has thrown the negotiated trade...
    • Brahma Chellaney Says More… Project Syndicate, Feb 4, 2020 This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based...

      Ramani's blog

  • When we reflect what had given us joy or pleasure, they are not the instruments of pleasure like relationships or Money but small instances that have given us Sublime joy...
  • There is yet another temple where the Shiva Linga absorbs entire Oil when abhisheka is performed.
    • The original name of the place was Kadai+Chilambu+Endhal, meaning 'the place where the Anklet was held in Hands for the last time' I am unable to find the photo of the house...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • No U.S. Attorney General in history has ever turned the Department of Justice into a political tool belonging to the president. Until now. Bill Barr has totally politicized the Department...
  • Trump proposes to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which are very small appropriations, but which Republicans have always hated. I seem to recall that...
    • The Education Law Center is suing to block former Governor Chris Christie’s 2016 decision to expand charters in Newark:   About Us News ‌ ‌ February 11, 2020 NJ SUPREME COURT...
  • This past week has been dominated in late night (and daytime) talk with a lot of political content.  Of note for these pages is the failure of the Iowa Democratic Party to effectively...
  • Things ticked up for science and technology on late night in the last week of January.  On the January 26 repeat of The Late Show, you could catch host Stephen Colbert lacerating a recent...
    • The ongoing dearth of science and technology content on the late night programs continues.  This past week was pretty light, though as is often the case, you could count on The Daily...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood       When we talk about the impact of household energy bills of switching from gas to electricity, we need to bear in mind that electricity prices are going to be forced...
  • By Paul Homewood     I spotted this on the BBC Newsround site, when I picked up the Greta story. BBC Newsround is the pretendy-serious news programme for kids. And this is the sort of...
  • Open Letter To Greta

    11 hours ago
    • By Paul Homewood h/t Phil Wood   Greta is to get her own BBC series! Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting her own TV series about the environment. The 17-year-old has...
  • Germany’s onslaught on its famed automotive and production industries appears to be taking an economic toll as the country pushes ahead to go green by phasing out internal combustion...
  • Earth’s atmosphere is made of 78% nitrogen (N2) and 21% oxygen (O2). The “consensus” view is N2 and O2 are not greenhouse gases (GHGs) and don’t absorb infrared radiation...
    • Of good trees and bad trees: an unimaginable story By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P Gosselin) We have already reported about the very different views on trees in this blog. Perhaps...
  • Mike Rose’s Blog: Some Thoughts on Character Education, Non-Cognitive Skills, Grit, and the Formation of Public Discourse about Education Beginning several decades ago with...
  • Gadfly on the Wall: The Ongoing Study of How and When Teachers Should Praise Students Should teachers praise their students? It’s a simple question with a multiplicity of answers...
    • Janresseger: EdChoice Voucher Negotiations Break Down in Ohio: Four Questions Must Be Addressed in 60-Day Delay Rancor and confusion over the issue of EdChoice private school tuition...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous...
  • Please read the following article by my colleague Paul Gregory in Defining Ideas A cursory examination of the Steele Dossier should have convinced the...
  • The Moderate Voice

  • The post Roger Stone (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • The 21st century may ultimately be seen as the time when Americans decided to inexorably shift the United States to a different form of government and norms than the Founding Fathers...
    • Washington (AFP) – The US Justice Department is intervening to override its own prosecutors and seek a lower prison sentence for Roger Stone, a former campaign advisor of President...
  • Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a frequent flier, traveling every few months to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy medication for rheumatoid...
  • Tuesday assorted links

    11 hours ago
  • 1. “Chaos erupted outside a popular Brooklyn brewery Friday night, when an apparently annoyed craft-beer hater pulled a gun on a long line of people who were waiting to buy the latest...
    • The word “self-recommending” now takes on a stronger meaning yet, here is the review.  Here are the closing two paragraphs: It is a paradox of our time that the path to radical...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I fear we are becoming insensitive to shock in the Trump era. And the very concept of “government ethics” seems to be an oxymoron in this...
  • VIDEO - At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, The New American magazine's foreign correspondent was minding his own business asking people for their...
  • Near the end of his three-hour long daily program on Monday, radio legend Rush Limbaugh announced that he has been diagnosed with “advanced” lung cancer...
    • Surprising literally no one, former GOP pundit Bill Kristol has declared himself a Democrat — at least for now.
  • America has been a warring nation—a military empire intent on occupation and conquest—for so long that perhaps we, the citizens of this warring nation, have forgotten what it...
  • Between efforts to censor information critical of Buttigieg on social media and harass independent media outlets and their reporters at his rallies, it appears that a concerted...
    • Trump's new Middle East "Peace" Plan will redraw Israeli borders to exclude towns with large populations of Arab citizens, an attempt, writes Miko Peled, to force them down the totem...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • On Children's Books, Pigs and Trains and Why We're Still Talking about Kevin(tags:gender writing books )EU clamps down on free ports over crime and terrorism links(tags:crime terrorism...
  • This is the kind of story that never happens to me. And I'm pretty happy about that(tags:toilets religion mysteries weird )Some fascinating history of "Penny Dreafuls"(tags:publishing...
    • The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand: a science fictional expansion(tags:scifi assassination history timetravel viaSteer )Knives Out, Last Jedi DP has a plan to end...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Scientists have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice by using copper-based nanoparticles and immunotherapy.  Importantly, the cancer did not return...
  • Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.
    • Catnip is the most famous stimulant for cats. How does it work, why does it not affect all cats, and are there any catnip alternatives? We investigate...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Well, we’ll see in the morning (Central European Time) who won in New Hampshire. I expect a solid Bernie win, but after the bullshit they pulled in Iowa, I am very, very nervous.I did...
  • Rainy Day

    a day ago
  • It was raining like a bastard when I got up this morning and left the flat at 7:30 to catch the train up to beautiful Kralupy nad Vltavou, where I teach for a couple of hours every Monday.My...
  • Red Flag in Nevada

    2 days ago
    • Emma Goldman has been named Voter Protection Director for the Nevada Democratic Caucus. It’s nice that they realize the need for a voter protection director, especially after...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth...
  • Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments...
    • As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite...

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