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"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" Richard Feynman
"The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves."
- Plato, Greek philosopher.
Dick
Van Dyke turned 94 on December 13th… and it seems he needed no help
blowing out those birthday candles. The media spotted him on his
birthday on a Malibu errand run, where Van Dyke...
Without
grandmothers, human evolution would be quite different! They’re an
important part of any family, but a new study shows grandmothers have
actually shaped the destiny of...
A
newly discovered Christian church in Ethiopia is changing our
understanding of how Christianity spread. Many people know when and
where Christianity began, but where and when...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Monday, December 23, 2019 Whining Pundits Parrot Trump’s Line
That This Does Not Feel Like Real...
Oval
Office Is Mental Annex of Kremlin as Don Parrots Putin’s Slogans
Against Ukraine; Ouster of Mulvaney Imminent as Vendetta Proceeds;
Christianity Today Demands Removal of...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Thursday, December 19, 2019 The Scaramucci Scenario as Told to
BBC: Peel Off 4-5 GOP Senators and Get...
Sustainable
Pulse interview with Axis Farms’ Partner, Mark Sanders, discussing the
future of wheat farming in Canada and why they decided it is important
to certify their harvest...
According
the a new study, soybean production in South America now covers over 57
million hectares, more than on any other continent. The consequences
for amphibians have been devastating...
A
recent review of the scientific literature (see abstract below) has
found that exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in glyphosate
herbicides like Roundup, impairs the...
BRAHMA
CHELLANEY, Project Syndicate International law today is powerful
against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful. As long as
this is true, a rules-based global...
Brahma
Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Whereas India-China and Japan-China ties
are unlikely to become non-adversarial in the near future, the
forthcoming summit between prime...
Since
China began damming the Mekong, droughts have become more frequent and
intense in downriver countries By diverting river water to its
mega-dams, China has emerged as Asia’s...
Jeremy
Mohler of the nonpartisan “In the Public Interest” wrote a clear
summary of the reasons to be concerned about charter schools: The
holidays are a time of joy and relaxation...
Stuart
Egan, National Board Certified Teacher in North Carolina, is aware that
he is surrounded by piety, not all of which is sincere. In this holiday
season, he calls on his fellow...
Dr.
Anika Whitfield is a leader of Grassroots Arkansas. She recently posted
an open letter to key state officials, including Governor Asa
Hutchinson and State Commissioner Johnny...
Before
I discuss last week’s science and technology content on late night, a
note about the week of December 2. I missed an appearance by Kevin
Delaney on The Tonight Show. Delaney...
It
was a light week for science and technology bookings on late night,
much like this year has been. You could have caught a repeat on The
Late Late Show of Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting...
Most,
but not all, late night programs were in repeats this past week due to
the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Of those repeats, the
November 29 edition of The Late Show...
By
Paul Homewood Whatever the progressives at the Guardian/BBC may say
about wildfires, the blokes actually fighting them understand the
reality. This was what they had to say...
By
Paul Homewood
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/24/home-affairs-warned-australian-government-of-growing-climate-disaster-risk-after-may-election...
By
Paul Homewood
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/lancets-latest-climate-report-is-full-of-errors/
You will recall I critiqued...
For
CO2 to be considered a driver of Earth’s temperatures, changes in CO2
that uni-directionally correlate with temperatures should not be an
exceptional occurrence. Yet a causal...
German
evolutionary biologist and physiologist Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kutschera told
in an interview that “CO2 is a blessing for mankind” and that the
claimed “97% consensus”...
Curmudgucation:
Fordham: Teachers Are Downloading Junk Fordham Institute, the
right-tilted thinky tank and tireless ed reform advocacy group, just
released a new study that actually...
The
Conversation: 5 New Ways for Schools to Work with Families Text
messages, email alerts, open houses, fundraising appeals, robocalls –
parents know the drill. They are inundated...
Shanker
Blog: The Structure of School Segregation in the D.C. Metro Area A few
weeks ago, the Shanker Institute published an analysis of segregation by
race and ethnicity in D.C...
Victor
Davis Hanson // Fox News Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former
Director of National Intelligence...
Victor
Davis Hanson // National Review The three-year-long effort to abort the
Trump presidency — now culminating with a manipulated impeachment
effort — has warped U.S. foreign...
Victor
Davis Hanson // American Greatness When a party, an ideological
movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and
policies become warped. The left-wing...
It's
unlikely that I'll ever watch Cats again. What reason is there to watch
it again? It's plotless, and there's no time to invest in what's taking
place onscreen. The visual effects...
Although
I am technically in my “no politics at Christmas moratorium” I’m going
to take a brief break to offer the following Over the next couple weeks
we will all be gathering...
1.
The penis-shaped ice rink culture that is Russia. 2. The Economist on
Peter Chang and the revolution in Chinese cuisine. Price variability is
rising in the Chinese cuisine market...
Libya,
Yemen, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, the Central African Republic, Sudan,
East Timor, Lebanon, Greece, and Trinidad & Tobago. In Syria and
Venezuela data collection...
That
was a question I asked someone while discussing the topic of careers,
in this case academic careers but it applies more broadly. Virtually by
definition, the major pressures...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post, Eric
Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of
Trump. Holder was Obama’s...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when
we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the
blessings we enjoy: our freedom...
Originally
posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post
went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as
a phony before he was elected...
A
conference of state-selected religious leaders in China issued a
directive that all religious works must be revised to conform to the
Communist Party Line...
The
government estimates ending homelessness would cost around $20 billion,
less than Americans spend on Christmas decorations, yet there appears
to be little appetite to address...
At
least 25 people have been killed in the protests and India's far-right
government has banned gatherings in cities across the country. The post
Millions Protest India’s Anti-Muslim...
Ahmed
AbdulKareem recounts the story of Heramala and thousands of African
migrants like him who make the harrowing journey across wartorn Yemen in
hopes of a better life in Saudi Arabia...
Girl,
six, finds plea from Chinese prison slaves inside Tesco kitten
Christmas cards(tags:Christmas slavery China Tesco uk )The problem with
people but understanding how frosted...
Cats
is not Andrew Lloyd Webber's weirdest musical(tags:musicals trains
)Future proofing the Afsluitdijk(tags:Netherlands Ocean architecture
thefuture )Why Brussels Sprouts...
There's
a baby asleep behind me. A baby with a cold.Every ten minutes or so she
has a coughing fit and wakes herself up enough to make a pitiful
whining noise.About every fifth time she...
A
new study focuses on DNA change to investigate why aspirin use is
linked to different outcomes in different individuals after a breast
cancer diagnosis...
There
are many types of probiotic, and each has a different set of health
benefits. In this article, learn about the best probiotics for various
situations...
by
bbennett36 I know most people don’t know the truth about The Federal
Reserve. The truth is the people that the dems allowed to create the
Federal Reserve were the ... Read more...
by CRESCAT
CAPITAL Download PDF Version The highly probable and downright
inevitable unwind of today’s trifecta of financial asset bubbles:
stocks, corporate credit, and...
It
gets a little bit tiresome saying “A new low,” because we say it so
often. We say it about Trump, the Tories in England, the press, the DNC,
and oh so many others. But, as long as it...
And
now the days are getting longer again, which is of course the reason
for a major holiday at this time of year. It’s been called Christmas for
the last thousand years or so, Yule before...
I
just saw a thing, forgot the source and I’m not going to look for it,
about how only 5 candidates have qualified for the January debate.
Meaning Steyer and Yang would be out, and there...
It
is starting to sink in that this is not a drill. This is not the
projection of some future possibility that one day, we would leave this
place, dead or alive. This is an acceptance, almost...
I’m
beating the rush for New Year’s Resolutions, and thought I’d go ahead
and start failing to keep mine ahead of schedule. I’ve realized that I
have allowed myself to get too...
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