Friday, March 06, 2020

6 March - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

  • Life is too short, so don’t spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.  “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”...
  • Things have really changed; people are becoming obsessed with online validations. Almost everyone has been or is on one of the social media platforms, where taking selfies and sharing...
    • Melbourne University conducted a study which concludes that our personality does affect not only our outlook on life but also the way we perceive reality. As it turns out, having...

      Have You Heard

  • TweetBlaming teachers for the woes of US public schools and beyond is as old a pastime as public education itself. Historian Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz takes us through 100 years of...
  • TweetHave You Heard heads to fast-growing north Texas for a first-hand look at how support for public education is upending the state’s politics. Spoiler: GOP candidates are scrambling...
    • TweetThe raging debate about whether public money should fund private religious education is a very old one. What’s new is the increasingly complex education landscape and the...

      Chicago Boyz

  • I just want to mention my gratitude to Trent for tracking down good information and getting it to us in quantity. I have not commented because I have no particular expertise, neither...
  • SARS-CoV2/COVID-10 Update 3-5-2020 -- "As long as you remember to keep breathing and don't fall asleep, it's basically just like the flu."
    • Update:   There is likely something in this of why black males are defecting to Trump much more than black females, but I can’t quite see what that is.  Offer suggestions you think...

      Centinel2012

  • Deep State Cure Bill Gates, whose net worth is over $100 billion, once remarked that vaccines could reduce world population by 10 to 15 percent. Bill is a member of the ‘Big Club.’...
  • DON’T PANIC!

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  • Concerned and vigilant?  Yes.  Panicked?  No way! Re Posted for the Canada Free press By Jim ONeill —— Bio and Archives—March 5, 2020 It is said that despite its many...
    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Technology Re-Posted Mar 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong Many people are starting to question why this coronavirus has been whipped up into a major panic when...
  • We enjoy a brief pause from our wall-to-wall election coverage of late on today's BradCast (if not entirely) to revisit the ongoing unraveling of the rule of law as we know it at the U.S...
  • On today's BradCast: Sad news for many regarding the end of Elizabeth Warren's run for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination. But we start with what suffices for good-ish news...
    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Australia's record bushfires are out --- finally --- as new study warns they're going to get worse; Climate coverage by corporate news media still falling...

      bluebird of bitterness



    • Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) composed this mandolin concerto in 1725, while he was serving as violin master and composer-in-residence at an orphanage in Venice. It’s performed...
  • Officials are demanding a briefing from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a report that found false statements and flawed science. As reported by The Patch. See the NRC Office...
  • Damning NRC Inspector General report details faulty analysis that led to approval of natural gas pipeline; Shumer, Gillibrand had originally called for independent review Schumer...
    • See the press release by U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (Democrat-New York's 17th congressional district). It includes a link to the letter sent by U.S. Rep. Lowey to the U.S. Nuclear...
  • U.S. border agents will soon begin a widespread program to gather DNA samples from immigrants who enter the country illegally and are in federal custody, according to two administration...
  • U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track...
    • About 2,800 New York City residents are under quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus — and some could face fines or jail time if they venture outside their homes, officials...
  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
  • By Emma Young. Researchers recorded participants' brain activity and emotions while they watched Forrest Gump.
    • By Matthew Warren. American Christians' beliefs about God's race and gender may influence their decisions about who should be leaders generally.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Pierre Pullis had a photography studio on Fulton Street, in New York City, but he spent a lot of time working outside its walls. For about four decades in the first half of the 20th century...
  • Sequoia National Park, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, has a 4.5-star rating on Yelp. Hundreds of visitors rated it five stars, and only a handful left one-star reviews...
    • Quasi is many things—public art, rooftop decoration, New Zealand native—but, primarily, Quasi is a face and a hand. Rather, Quasi is a face on a hand.  Standing at a little over...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Tanika Charles - First & Last
  • Friday Morning Links

    13 hours ago
  • Assorted content to end your week.- Owen Jones asks why we're not treating the existential threat of a climate breakdown with anything close to the urgency applied to the coronavirus...
  • New column day

    a day ago
    • Here, on the Saskatchewan Party's refusal to accept that nuclear power is as impractical as it is unpopular - and how that fits into the view the province's voters should take of Scott...

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