Tuesday, December 03, 2019

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  • The discovery of a 2,500 year old “Amazon” warrior woman in an Armenia has excited researchers. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences unearthed the remains a couple of...
  • The Green Vault holds a fortune in priceless treasures, and burglars just got away with some of them. Centuries ago, the Residenzschloss was a royal palace in Dresden, Germany, now...
    • For the second time, Pablo Picasso’s former electrician has been convicted of stealing from his famous employer. During the 1970s, Picasso lived in Mougins, France and used electrician...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • In an op-ed at The Times, Gabrielle Rifkind, a psychotherapist and “Middle East specialist in conflict resolution”, argues that British…
  • Originally posted on Why Evolution Is True: From the Vanderbilt Hustler, the student newspaper of that Nashville, Tennessee university, we learn that the…...
    • Originally posted on orgtheory.net: I am not opposed to scholars being politically active, nor using their scholarly skills to tackle…
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 3, 2019 In Schiff Report, Rudy Giuliani Garners 500 Mentions, While GOP Rep. Nunes...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 2, 2019 Trump Flies to London for Seventieth Anniversary NATO Summit, Already Whining...
    • Life Expectancy in U.S. Falls for Third Straight Year; Alarming New Trend Toward Higher Death Rate Between 25 and 64 Years of Age; Causes Include Economic Hardship and Despair; Opioids...
  • Researchers have claimed a world first in herbicide resistance, after discovering a tropical weed in Western Australia’s far north that literally eats glyphosate. Source: www.abc.net.au...
  • The results of the new study below speak for themselves: “prenatal exposure to 19 pesticides or metabolites from various chemical families may influence [children’s] measurements...
    • Amidst the clamor that surrounds Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) globally, a small but significant triumph panned out in South Africa last month. The country’s Agriculture...
  • South / North
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    • Finally!!! Might as well party.

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build a rules-based and democracy-led order in the Indo-Pacific, but seems to have no idea how. If it doesn’t find the answer...
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Globe and Mail Just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached New Delhi last week on a state visit, noxious smog blanketed the Indian capital, forcing a shutdown...
    • Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...
  • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.
  • But sir, several decades ago my paternal grand father had made a vow to himself that he would place 108 Golden Lotus Flowers at the holy Lotus feet of our Sri Varu for...
    • There is also a practice of assigning Vishnu Gotra to people who belong to Kshatriya Varna and Jambu Maharishi Gotra to Vaisyas.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Politico Morning Education reports:   U.S. SCORES IN READING, MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE LITERACY REMAINED ESSENTIALLY FLAT FROM 2015 in the latest Program for International Student...
  • Teresa Hanafin wrote this morning in Fast Foreard for the Boston Hlobe.   “Just spotted this disturbing story: Another major US company caved to the demands of an autocrat in the...
    • Chris Whittle is the Uber entrepreneur of for-profit education. Back in the 1990s, he launched the Edison Project, assuming that George H.W. Bush would be re-elected and would get...
  • 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...
  • Once again, we can count on Silicon Valley (the show) to show up in these posts.  Lead actor Thomas Middleditch appeared on Conan November 19.  This was the key guest of a light week...
    • As is often the case, The Daily Show came through this past week.  Former Microsoft CEO and Founder of the USA Facts website Steve Ballmer came by on the November 14 episode.  The website...
  • By Paul Homewood     The GWPF have submitted a formal complaint to the BBC about the latest Attenborough programme:   In last night’s wildlife TV series Seven Worlds, One Planet...
  • By Paul Homewood     These plane thingies come in handy, don’t they Greta!   A British yacht skipper’s flight to the US to help Greta Thunberg sail to Portugal has produced the...
    • By Paul Homewood     h/t AC Osborn Attenborough is on the march again tonight, with his latest load of BS: A polar bear bravely leaped into a pod of beluga whales in a desperate bid to...
  • High-profile Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann has penned a stinging commentary in the online Bayerischer Kurier concerning all the climate doomsday hysteria sweeping across...
  • Earth’s atmosphere contains 400 ppm CO2 (0.04%). Mars has a 950,000 ppm (95%) CO2 atmosphere. But Mars has surface temperatures that are about -75°C colder on average than Earth’s...
    • Europe’s hypocrite of the week After celebrating at Twitter the passage of the symbolic climate emergency in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday, parliamentarian Sven...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Hack Education: Ed-Tech Agitprop This talk was delivered at OEB 2019  [the largest international Ed-Tech conference] in Berlin. Or part of it was. I only had 20 minutes to speak...
  • Janresseger: Beware: Opponents of Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Have a Vested Interest in Expanding School Privatization In October, Elizabeth Warren released an exemplary...
    • Curmudgucation: TN: Doubling Down on Bad Reading Policy Among the worst policy ideas of the past decades, we have to count third grade reading retention laws. These laws can sometimes...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review During special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his legal “dream team” tried to make a secondary case that Donald Trump also...
  • Urs Gehriger // Die Weltwoche In 2018, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib — a newly minted member of “The Squad” — spoke for many angry #Resistance fighters when, upon her election...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Where are the Democrats going next? Prior to this past week, for days Adam Schiff had concocted a pretty effective fix. He conducted secret impeachment...

    The Moderate Voice

  • "The desire to stand for something can easily be eclipsed by the decision to stand for anything. This describes America’s Republican Party and the voters who support its policies...
  • The post Putin Puppets (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
    • We have reached the naked truth: Bill Barr accepts only those notions that he wants to accept and facts be damned. The post Captain Combover and the Coefficient of Fiction appeared...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. “We find a small hot hand effect for free throws, concentrated in second and third shots in a free throw sequence, in players shooting at least 100 free throws in a season, and in...
  • In 2018, the Nigerian government spent more on subsidies for petrol than on health, education, or defence. And: CD sales still make up 78% of music revenue in Japan (compared with less...
    • Related to my previous post The Optometry Racket with thanks and attribution to loyal reader David Siegel. The post How to Buy Contact Lenses in Lithuania appeared first on Marginal...
  • 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...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand...
  • President Trump hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron's critique of NATO and doubled down on plans to slap tariffs on French goods.
  • Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg recently expressed approval at the notion that the United States occupies stolen land — and that illegal aliens are merely exacting justice...
    • Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the California leftist who briefly surged in the polls after suggesting that rival Joe Biden is a closet racist, has dropped out of...
  • Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of corporations ready to exploit America's most vulnerable populations in order to get a piece of the pie...
  • Of the billions of dollars pouring into Yemen from international donors, only a trickle is actually reaching the people who need it the most reports Ahmed AbdulKareem. The post As...
    • Almost immediately after Le Mesurier’s alleged plunge to his death, reports began to emerge of tampering and the removal of details about the controversial “private security”...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • It is the fiftieth anniversary of the most culturally important work of the 20th century(tags:Muppets video music )UK factories are laying off workers at fastest rate for seven years(tags:uk...
  • Jeremy Corbyn says UK military interventions have fuelled terrorism at home. The public agree (53% to 24%)(tags:polls terrorism UK Labour )Precarity the Misery Cat (a poem about...
    • First catch your gannet ... then prepare for a challenge to nose and tastebuds(tags:food birds scotland )That time the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally'...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • New research finds that one variant of the human herpesvirus 6 significantly increases a person's chance of developing multiple sclerosis.
  • New evidence shows that the rate of exposure to natural psychoactive drugs in the United States has increased, putting adult and child health at risk.
    • Neem oil contains natural compounds that may support skin health in various ways. Here learn more about the potential benefits and risks of neem on the skin...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Do not get me wrong. I am absolutely, 100% a Bernie Sanders supporter. He has by far the longest history of progressive activism of any candidate in the race, he’s pretty much a dead...
  • The Size of the Bubble

    16 hours ago
  • I was accused by a blue-no-matter-who plonker the other day of ‘living in a bubble’ because I said Bernie was ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire, and it did piss me off a bit.But that’s...
  • Yes, Malarkey

    3 days ago
    • It seems like ‘No Malarkey’ is Joe Biden’s new slogan. It’s written, big and bold, on the side of his tour bus, which is large enough to do a major rock group proud and probably...

      Fragments from Floyd

    These are the things that I tell myself every morning are in limited and consistently depleted supply. Every morning, this reality should drive me to the top of my task and projects...

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