Friday, February 28, 2020

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  • In today’s world, we take the idea of having extremely powerful computers not only accessible to us, but literally in our pockets.  We use them to shop, play games, and look at memes...

  • Inside the 12th Century Mermaid Inn – England’s Creepiest Historic Hotel

    3 hours ago
  • Fancy a night at a haunted hostelry? The Mermaid Inn, centuries old and found in the English town of Rye, might be just the ticket. Current owner Judith Blincow offers all mod cons, from...

  • “Pick Not Thy Nose” – Funny Old Children’s Manners Books Now Digitized

    7 hours ago
    • Historic children’s books teaching manners are now digitized and entering the 21st century. In an ambitious attempt to inspire young minds, the British Library has unveiled a...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and Liberty

    2 hours ago

  • Asymmetric Information and Used Cars

    3 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, February 27, 2020 Dow Futures Turned Negative During Trump’s Catastrophic Press Conference...

  • Beware “Operation Chaos”: GOP Reactionaries in South Carolina Crossing Over to Democratic Primary to Vote for Bernie Sanders; Sabotage Tactic Builds on 2008 Wrecking Operation by Rush Limbaugh Aiming at Weakening the Democratic Ticket; Republicans See Bernie as the Weakest General Election Candidate; Current Op Gets Full Backing from Trump Fanatics on Fox News; Was This Same Method Already Practiced Used in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada?

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Biden Gets Key Endorsement from Rep James Clyburn, the Third Ranking...

  • Centers for Disease Control Alerts US Public That Coronavirus Is Coming and That Preparations Must Be Made Now, Triggering New 880-Point Wall Street Selloff; Briefing on Hill by HHS Boss Azar Alarms Senators; Pandemic Continues to Spread: In Italy, Florence and Sicily Report Infections; In Iran, Top Health Official Falls Ill; New Cases in Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, and Spain; World Health Organization Reps in Beijing Offer Obscene Praise to Tyrant Xi for Quality of Chinese Response-Although He Stalled Reporting for Weeks; Trump Is Downplaying Threat to Avoid Shocks to Stock Market

    3 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Trump’s Malfeasance Includes Destroying the Irreplaceable Epidemic...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Chairman Werner Wenning, one of the architects of a $63 billion takeover deal that has left the German crop protection company fighting costly lawsuits, will step down in April, it...

  • Biotech Industry’s New Hope ‘Gene Editing’ Dealt a Serious Double Blow

    8 days ago
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a French court have dealt separate blows to the Biotech industry and their attempt to slide new gene editing techniques through the...

  • Bayer On The Edge as Jury Awards $265 M to US Peach Farmer over Illegal Dicamba Drift

    13 days ago
    • A jury on Saturday awarded US$ 250 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 57 – 2020

    16 hours ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 56 – 2020

    2 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • It speaks for itself that there has been no major Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack since India’s Balakot airstrike, which punched a hole through Pakistan’s nuclear shield...

  • Can India really count on Trump?

    7 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, Open Magazine US President Donald Trump’s India visit, with his wife Melania, is significant for several reasons, including the fact that this is his first overseas...

  • Preventing the Death of the World’s Rivers

    20 days ago
    • The world’s rivers are under unprecedented pressure from contamination, damming, and diversion, which are straining water resources, destroying ecosystems, jeopardizing...

      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...

  • Shiva Linga Absorbs Oil Five Leaves Bilva Thiruneelakkudi Neelakanteswara

    2 months ago
    • There is yet another temple where the Shiva Linga absorbs entire Oil when abhisheka is performed.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • California spends less per pupil than most states. Its schools have been underfunded for decades. Reverse the many years of neglect and support the children by voting YES on Prop 13...

  • Is It Time to Say Farewell to Pearson EdTPA?

    2 hours ago
  • https://www.educationdive.com/news/is-edtpa-standing-in-the-way-of-getting-more-teachers-into-classrooms/572969/ Educators disagree about the value, validity...

  • Hechinger Report Criticized by Scholars for Bending to Trolls

    3 hours ago
    • The Hechinger Report invited two eminent scholars to write about how public schools might respond if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the Espinoza v. Montana case...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • Some programs were off this past week in connection with the President’s Day holiday in the United States.  Of those repeats, “Science Bob” Pflugfelder’s recent appearance...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of February 10

    9 days ago
  • This past week was a clear break from the recent months of limited science and technology content.  “Science Bob” Pflugfelder returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 10 (Monday). ...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of February 3

    19 days ago
    • 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...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     h/t Dave Ward     Dave sent me a copy of this snippet from The Mail today:        Indeed everything I have seen so far suggests that the rainfall this month is...

  • A History Of Floods In Windsor

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood   George Clooney is worried that his tennis court is under a couple inches of water at his £12m mansion on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire:    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11010338/george-clooney-berkshire-mansion-storm-dennis-floods/...

  • Are Britain’s pollution levels really a public health emergency?

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood     Following on from the latest air pollution data, it is worth going back to this Telegraph article in 2017 by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick:   As somebody who groped his...

      NoTricksZone

  • German t-online.de news portal here reports how yesterday large areas of central and southern Germany saw the power fail yesterday due to “snow and storms.”   Power outages...

  • New Research: Polar Bears’ Seal Diet Hasn’t Changed…Their Body Condition Is Best After Sea Ice Breaks Up

    a day ago
  • The perspective that polar bears  are endangered by global warming because reduced sea ice limits their seal-hunting opportunities is contradicted by observations of (a) polar...

  • Exchange Of Arctic Research Crew Gets Delayed As Supply Ice Breaker Blocked By Unexpected “Dense Sea Ice”

    2 days ago
    • Lately we’ve been hearing reports of how Arctic sea ice has (unexpectedly) reached normal levels this winter. This is a bit of good news which the media avoid mentioning. But the...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen Not only are school districts spending huge sums on laptops with...

  • Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You

    2 days ago
  • Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education...

  • Radical Eyes for Equity: What Federal and State Reading Legislation Should and Should Not Do

    3 days ago
    • Radical Eyes for Equity: What Federal and State Reading Legislation Should and Should Not Do Since the early 1980s, a significant role of state government has included funding and...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • From An Angry Reader: Subject: Gray Matter Your articles are so offensively lacking in context, thoughtfulness, and reflection on history–basically simpleminded attack ads–...

  • Trump’s Chances for Reelection Are Looking Better and Better

    a day ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump has at least five strong historical arguments for his reelection. One, he is an incumbent. Incumbent presidents have won 14...

  • ‘Gray Matter’–Deficient Americans

    2 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Former New York mayor and multibillionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, four years ago at Oxford, England, dismissed...

    The Moderate Voice

  • We have Julius Caesar to thank for the existence of 29 February 2020, a.k.a. Leap Day 2020. “During the Late [Roman] Republic, social disorder, political strife and an ongoing series...

  • Coronavirus, November 2020: What life with COVID-19 could look like in America

    2 hours ago
  • People living in Italy, Iran, and South Korea are all grappling with a surgein the number of cases of COVID-19. In Italy, where officials report528 people are infected and 14 have died...

  • Stocks are plummeting – could coronavirus cause a recession?

    2 hours ago
    • Coronavirus seems to be on a collision course with the US economy and its 12-year bull market. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Michael Walden, North Carolina State University Fears are growing...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. How Cuba manipulates infant mortality and life expectancy statistics. 2. “Drivers of higher cost cars were less likely to yield to pedestrians at a midblock crosswalk.” ...

  • Contagion Themes

    6 hours ago
  • Good post from Nicholas Bagley in 2016 at the Incidental Economist. Every disease provokes its own unique dread and its own complex public reaction, but themes recurred across outbreaks...

  • How has my thinking on prizes vs. grants evolved?

    13 hours ago
    • Chris, a loyal MR reader, writes to me: I’ve been turning to your insights on prizes vs. grants over the years. Your Google talk from 2007 is without question the best discussion I’ve...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: When I joined the Marines in 1965, I wasn’t thinking of the flag or what freedom meant. I joined for another reason. I wanted to know...

  • Jackie Goldberg: Lies the Billionaires Tell

    15 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jackie Goldberg is running for re-election to the Los Angeles Unified School Board. She is an experienced public official who has supported...

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  • A vast majority of Democrat superdelegates interviewed do not support Sanders, and they are willing to risk alienating his supporters by naming someone else — almost anyone else...

  • Get Children Out of Public Schools, Warns AZ Education Chief

    2 hours ago
  • Former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, who oversaw the state Department of Education, sounds the alarm about what is happening in public schools across...

  • Weinstein Sent More Money to Clinton Than Any Other Democrat

    2 hours ago
    • Disgraced movie tycoon and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has given more money to Hillary Clinton than to any other Democrat politician.

      MintPress News

  • Democracy in Bolivia did not die in darkness, it died to the applause of the Washington Post. The post Months After Supporting a Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia’s Elections Were...

  • In Dem Debates, Corporate Media Push a Militaristic Foreign Policy: An Interview with Sam Husseini

    3 hours ago
  • MintPress News recently spoke to Sam Husseini about how the media promotes militaristic and even xenophobic approaches to foreign policy during the primary debates. The post...

  • Judge Orders Assange Held in Glass Box During Extradition Trial

    4 hours ago
    • In the United Kingdom, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces extradition to the U.S., a magistrate court judge decided he must remain isolated in a glass box at the back of the...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • The moral hazard of the United Kingdom casually breaching the Political Declaration(tags:politics uk europe trade )Rough sleeping up 141% since Conservatives took power despite...

  • Interesting Links for 27-02-2020

    a day ago
  • Digging under the hood of the EU negotiating mandate for the future UK partnership agreement.(tags:UK Europe trade )Payments to English farmers to drop by up to 25%(tags:farming...

  • Interesting Links for 26-02-2020

    2 days ago
    • Beloved, You Are Not "Torn," You Are In Denial About Your ChoicesFound this one fascinating because I've drifted like this in the past and am very glad not to be this person any more.(tags:relationships...

    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...

  • Medical News Today: Could a probiotic prevent or reverse Parkinson's?

    a month ago
  • Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.

  • Medical News Today: Catnip: What do we know about the feline drug?

    a month ago
    • 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

  • I just reread the blog I wrote last night and realized I didn’t actually write about the one thing I intended to write about, which was not the poetry reading but some cool wall art I...

  • Poetry Reading/Birthday Party

    18 hours ago
  • Just got back from one of my regular poetry readings and it was a lot of fun, largely because it was also a birthday party complete with a very chocolatey, almost fudgey birthday cake...

  • Democratic Socialism

    a day ago
    • One percenter by birth Anderson Cooper just can’t seem to get the Democratic Socialism idea through his privileged little head. The first time I saw him interview Bernie Sanders...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • Just clustering a few bits here this morning, from the past few days’ world watching and trying to gain traction on my own inefficiencies and perplexities. As a biology watcher...

  • Home and Hearth

    3 days ago
  • Replenish as you deplete: that has been the Rule of the Woodpile since we moved to Goose Creek in 1999 and spent our first winter in Y2K. Until maybe eight years ago, this meant extraordinary...

  • Teacher as StoryTeller

    6 days ago
    • The story of what LIFE does to MATTER is perhaps the most remarkable--and important--story everyone, and especially our leaders, should know well.

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