Monday, February 25, 2019

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  Washington's Blog



  • I’ve written before about the pseudo-science of genetics, which is almost as crazy as the popular understanding of it. Our culture has long proposed that Oliver Twist could grow...

  • What’s Been Lost: The Value of Being Reasonable

    10 hours ago
  • Just about the only thing the virulent proponents of various extremes can agree on is that anyone attempting to be reasonable is a mortal threat that must be neutralized or destroyed. Dating...

  • U.S. Exports More and More Bullets

    2 days ago

    • By David Swanson, Director of World BEYOND War When I was a kid there was a local basketball team called the Washington Bullets. The team changed its name when “bullets” became...

      The Vintage News



  • There are works of sculpture which are “imperfect” yet their effect is magical. Others are just stunning thanks to an intriguing feature left there by their sculptor. Besides...

  • Female Mummy Hunters and the Remarkable Impact They Made

    19 hours ago
  • The BBC recently took a look at some of the women in Britain, both past and present, who fell in love with the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and did their best to help bring their stories to...

  • People are Starting to Sleep in Medieval “Box Beds” Again

    20 hours ago

    • As modern cities become increasingly crowded, innovative interior designers are constantly looking for new ways to create space-efficient furniture designs. These efforts are...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • A History of Earth’s Climate @SciShow

    2 hours ago

  • 1911 – A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)

    2 hours ago


    •   TARPLEY.net



  • Repeated Provocations Reveal Russian President and His Base of Predator-Oligarchs as Fanatics of Moscow the Third Rome; Apocalyptic Sixteenth-Century Prophecy Is World’s...

  • Citing Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Putin Doubles Down on Nuclear War Threats Against U.S. and NATO: If Western Alliance Matches Russia’s Illegal Intermediate Nuclear Forces in Europe, Kremlin Will Station Hypersonic Weapons on Ships and Submarines Near U.S. Coasts!

    4 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, February 21, 2019 Latest Bluster Reflects Loss of Support as Failed Russian Social Model...

  • Putin Threatens U.S. And NATO with Nuclear Attack, but Benedict Donald Cowers in Silence!

    5 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Desperate Demagogue in Kremlin Drawn Towards Adventurism by Collapse...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Many brands of beer and wine sold in the U.S. contain the weedkiller glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, according to a new report by CALPIRG Education Fund. In their new report, Glyphosate...

  • Forbes Retracts Attack on Paper Showing Link Between Glyphosate and Cancer

    6 hours ago
  • Forbes has pulled an article by Geoffrey Kabat attacking the new meta-analysis confirming a link between glyphosate and a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)...

  • Exposure to Chemical in Roundup Increases Risk of Cancer – New Review

    12 days ago

    • Exposure to glyphosate — the world’s most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup — increases the risk of some cancers...


      Stagecraft and Statecraft




  • Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review With the national election approaching, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus is squarely on domestic politics. After holding a...

  • China’s master plan for India

    11 days ago
  • China’s culpability in the massacre of Indian paramilitary soldiers by a Pakistan-based terrorist group is unmistakable. It openly shields Pakistan’s export of terrorism...

  • India’s security interests at risk from U.S. readiness to capitulate to Taliban

    17 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times This year is Afghanistan’s 40th year in a row as an active war zone. Betrayal, violence and surrender have defined Afghanistan’s history...


      Socio-Economics History Blog




  • Gold Breakout: Three Major Factors by Jim Willie, http://www.goldenjackass.com/, via http://www.goldseek.com/ The Gold suppression game appears finally to be coming to an end...

  • NASA: Life on Saturn’s Largest Moon

    21 minutes ago
  • RT America Published on Feb 25, 2019 NASA scientists say that one of Saturn’s moons may harbor methane-based life forms. Probes sent from Earth to Titan have shown continents and...

  • Hollywood Insider Spills Information On The Mark Of The Beast That Will Leave You Speechless!

    an hour ago

    • “What he (Black project scientist) told me was: Tell people, if they say NO to one thing say NO to the (RFID) microchip! … It is not (just electronic tagging ie. identification)!...


      Ramani's blog




  • When Sugreeva directs his army to search for Sita, who was abducted by Ravana, he directs them by explaining the Geographical features of each land.

  • Mleccha Fifteen Definitions Details

    7 days ago
  • Barbarians.They were not entitled to perform Parvana Sraddha. Their lands were called Bhoga Bhoomi,land of enjoyment as against Bharatavarsha,

  • Greeks Reference In India Texts 2000 BC

    10 days ago

    • Ancient Indians considered Life to be ephemeral, transient and concentrated on realising the Reality and were concerned about the origin of the world and other philosophical questions...


      Diane Ravitch's blog




  •   Bob Braun, veteran education journalist, reports that the New Jersey Assembly leaders pulled the bill to expand PARCC testing bee cause they didn’t have the votes to pass it...

  • Trump’s Nominee as Ambassador to the U.N. Will Be a Laughing Stock, Writes Max Boot

    5 hours ago
  • Max Boot, who now writes a column for the Washington Post, says that U.N ambassadors have typically had distinguished careers before they were nominated. Not so the latest nominee...

  • Wisconsin: Governor Evers Seeks to Freeze Voucher Enrollments and Charter Expansion

    10 hours ago

    •   Recently elected Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has proposed freezing voucher enrollments and charter expansion.  Neither charters nor vouchers have been more successful...


      Pasco Phronesis




  • This past week was just one of those weeks where I have to get creative to have anything to post here.  In this case, I reach for a class of guest I typically don’t post – the animal...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of February 4

    11 days ago
  • So far, 2019 has shaped up to follow a lackluster 2019 in terms of science and technology guests and content.  Sure, the usual suspects are providing their usual material, and MythBusters...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 28

    20 days ago

    • Sometimes when the science and technology guest listings are light, I can count on certain people or certain programs representing.  The Big Bang Theory is one of those programs...


      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT




  • By Paul Homewood       As we know, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard often writes quite delusional pieces in the Telegraph, about climate and energy policy. So I thought it would be a good...

  • Puffins Thriving–Despite Climate Change!

    2 days ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Remember headlines like these?   https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/44815636 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/23/uk-puffins-may-go-way-dodo-fears-extinction-50-years/...

  • Bramble Cay Melomys Extinction

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood     Climate change–ravaged? Trust the BBC to make it sound melodramatic. It was described in 2016 as the first mammalian extinction caused by human-induced climate...


      NoTricksZone




  • Zhokhov Island in the Siberian High Arctic today exhibits inhospitably severe climate conditions, desolate tundra, and year-round pack ice in the surrounding sea. During the Early...

  • Greenland’s Linear Trend “Bare Ice Area” Rises 36% Since 2000

    a day ago
  • Just a short post today, following up on yesterday’s polar ice update, where the data show nothing unusual happening at the earth’s poles. The globe’s surface has warmed over...

  • Data Show Polar Sea Ice Stable 12 Years, Cause Global Warming Alarmists To Melt Down

    3 days ago

    • By Kirye and P. Gosselin A look at the real observed data on polar sea ice shows that the situation has been surprisingly stable for more than one decade, now, despite the cult-like doomsday...


      NEPC Blog Post of the Day




  • Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: Study Finds That Touted “Personalized Learning” Tech Platform Wasn’t Effective A big new study that came out last week found that a highly-touted...

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Little We Know about How Teachers Teach Common Core

    3 days ago
  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Little We Know about How Teachers Teach Common Core Peter Greene, a retired teacher in Pennsylvania, had this to say about...

  • 10th Period: If This is Your Best Argument for More Charter Money, um....

    5 days ago

    • 10th Period: If This is Your Best Argument for More Charter Money, um.... Today, the Plain Dealer reported on an updated look at Ohio charter school performance from the Center...


      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers




  • For the record, I recently spoke with @NewYorker’s @IChotiner per his request for a discussion on my recent book. The published piece was “edited and condensed for clarity”...

  • Yes, ‘This Is America, 2019’

    5 hours ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There have been so far about three general reactions to the concocted Jussie Smollett psychodrama. One, and the most common, has been apprehension...

  • Survival at the White House

    4 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review No one in Washington called Donald J. Trump a “god” (as journalist Evan Thomas in 2009 had suggested of Obama) when he arrived in January...


    The Moderate Voice




  • By Christine Flowers Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitutes. That’s not news, sadly, since a lot of people – including high-profile people – pay for sex...

  • Cartoon: A Disgusting Hoax

    5 minutes ago
  • Watch me draw. The post Cartoon: A Disgusting Hoax appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • Trump vs. Congress: The emergency declaration should not be resolved in court

    17 minutes ago

    • President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall. AP/Evan Vucci William E. Nelson, New York University President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to...


      Marginal REVOLUTION




  • 1. New claims about the brain, original research here.  Perhaps there is a hitherto totally undiscovered means for neurons to communicate with each other. 2. Facial and voice recognition...

  • What is the real problem with social media? And how should we respond?

    12 hours ago
  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column.  Here is one bit: Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who is also a Nobel laureate in economics, has written and co-written a number of papers...

  • *Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*

    a day ago

    • I am very excited about my next book, due out April 9: I view this work as an antidote to many of the less than stellar arguments circulating today.  It looks like this: Table of contents...


      Lloyd Lofthouse




  • I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Continue reading →

  • Who Controls Your Life — the Big 5 Tech Giants or You?

    16 days ago
  • Someone from SiriusXM called and asked me what happened to my new 2018 Kia Niro plug-in hybrid, that they couldn’t find/track it. Continue reading →...

  • Cory Booker: What Educators and Parents Need to Know

    19 days ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? ? Mitchell Robinson of Michigan State University explains why he could not support for Cory Booker for the Democratic nomination in 2020...


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  • The White House will create a committee of federal scientists to reconsider the conclusions of the National Climate Assessment released last November.

  • Contradiction? Libs Outnumber Conservatives in 33 Percent Fewer States Now, Yet Nation Is More Liberal

    5 hours ago
  • With all the “conservatives” around, one might think that marriage would be universally considered one man and one woman, the trans agenda would have been soundly rejected...

  • Could Hispanics Be Drifting Away From the Democrats?

    5 hours ago

    • Democrats are counting on the votes of Hispanics — but are Hispanics beginning to leave that increasingly socialist party?


      MintPress News




  • While Senator Sanders seems to support a supposedly “democratic” kind of regime change in Venezuela, journalist Ben Norton, who has spent the past two weeks in Venezuela amid...

  • Netanyahu Finds Israeli Ultra-Right Parties Suited to His Political Purposes

    8 hours ago
  • The members of Otsma Yehudit are thugs and some have been designated as terrorists, and Netanyahu has more stately manners. But their objectives and their actions are in perfect sync...

  • “They Just Want Me in Prison”: MintPress Interviews Jailed Ukrainian Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky

    9 hours ago

    • The Ukraine courts are still dependent on political authorities, and the special service is used to carry out political schemes and to fight inconvenient points of view and dissent...


      Marginal REVOLUTION




  • 1. New claims about the brain, original research here.  Perhaps there is a hitherto totally undiscovered means for neurons to communicate with each other. 2. Facial and voice recognition...

  • What is the real problem with social media? And how should we respond?

    12 hours ago
  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column.  Here is one bit: Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who is also a Nobel laureate in economics, has written and co-written a number of papers...

  • *Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*

    a day ago

    • I am very excited about my next book, due out April 9: I view this work as an antidote to many of the less than stellar arguments circulating today.  It looks like this: Table of contents...


      Made from Truth and Lies




  • Wikipedia's top editor is this mild-mannered Virginian(tags:wikipedia )I am Steven Pruitt, the Wikipedian with over 3 million edits. Ask me anything!(tags:wikipedia )The magical...

  • Interesting Links for 23-02-2019

    3 days ago
  • The Independent Group: a fundamental change or politics-as-usual?(tags:UK politics reform )People fake cancer too(tags:fraud society )Edinburgh streets could go car-free...

  • Interesting Links for 22-02-2019

    4 days ago

    • At 18 storeys, Mj??sa Tower in Brumunddal to take title of world's tallest wooden building(tags:wood design architecture )Extinguishing fear memories relies on an unusual change...


    Featured Health News from Medical News Today




  • Back pain affects around two-thirds of women during pregnancy. In this article, we look at the causes of back pain in the first, second, and third trimester, and ways to relieve the...

  • Medical News Today: Uses of methylsulfonylmethane

    5 hours ago
  • Methylsulfonylmethane, or MSM, is a compound that may help with arthritis, joints, and muscle recovery. It is available in certain foods and supplement form. Learn more here...

  • Medical News Today: What is a TFCC tear?

    7 hours ago

    • The triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) is a network of ligaments, tendons, and cartilage in the wrist. Injuries to this structure are called TFCC tears, and they can cause...


      www.gurukalehuru.com




  • First of all, it’s not a coup.  A coup is internal.  The coup failed when Aguaido announced that he was president and nothing happened.  Maduro continued in office, the military...

  • To Be Nice, or Not To Be Nice, That is the Question

    a day ago
  • Bernie Sanders says he wants his supporters to play nice with the other candidates, and I guess with the supporters of other candidates.  Tulsi Gabbard is basing her whole campaign...

  • DiFi vs. The Future of the Planet

    2 days ago

    • The link is to a video you should watch.  Sure, it’s just Dianne Feinstein being her arrogant, dismissive self, but the thing is Dianne Feinstein is really old, and perhaps not as...


      Fragments from Floyd




  • In another life, if I could pull the threads together, from beginning to end (well, not all the way to finish at which point I won’t be doing any typing) I would start and end that tapestry...

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls:

    11 days ago
  • Bulletin of Atomic Scientists sets world clock at two minutes from Midnight. The Climate Crisis is only one of the forces moving humanity closer to collapse. But it is the Poster Child...

  • With Freedom, Responsibility

    15 days ago

    • It was just a task that Scout took on–a way to let us know that we don’t always have to be responsible for his goings and comings. Besides, if we put the leash ON the dog when we brought...
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