Thursday, April 16, 2020

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  • People have prized amber for thousands of years, flies not so much. Not only does the color and translucency of amber make it a great choice for beads and jewelry, but the stones have...

  • How the Worst Pandemics in History Finally Ended

    an hour ago
  • Pandemics have the power not only to end lives but change history. There are terrible examples that show people responding to such threats across the ages. These dark chapters make...

  • 150 Years Ago the Cardiff Giant Hoax had America Believing in Giants

    an hour ago
    • The Cardiff Giant of America was one enormous hoax. In fact some believe it’s the biggest and best hoax the States ever saw. This was pranking on an epic scale… in more ways than one!...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • From https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

  • #COVID19 #OTD

    5 hours ago

  • What can economic history teach us about the lockdown?

    7 hours ago
    • Originally posted on Plain-speaking Economics: The coronavirus pandemic is, of course, first and foremost a social crisis. It is testing the limits of the NHS, bringing out the best...

      TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Worse Than a Crime, an Error: Trump’s Stupid Attack on WHO Funding at Height...

  • In Alarming Episode, Trump Asserts “Absolute” and “Total” Power to Dictate the Internal Affairs of States; Cuomo Pledges to Block Reckless Re-Opening, Noting That States Had to Issue Stay Home Orders on Their Own; Tenth Amendment Is Stumbling Block for Trump; Regime Utterly Wasted Month of February; Massachusetts Joins Northeast Bloc

    2 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Biden Is Clear and Viable Alternative to Dictatorship; Democrats Win Seat...

  • Bernie Sanders Endorses Biden for President; Former Rivals Pledge All-Out Common Effort to Defeat Trump; Bernie Urges His Supporters to Join Him in Fighting to Oust Most Dangerous President in American History; Democratic Platform Will Include Partial Cancellation of Student Debt

    3 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, April 13, 2020 Trump Retweets #FireFauci, Wants Noted Epidemiologist to Recant Obvious...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Monsanto has settled claims in a proposed class action alleging that it falsely advertised that the active ingredient in Roundup Weed & Grass Killer only affects plants with...

  • Fiji Moves Towards Ban on Glyphosate Herbicides

    19 days ago
  • According to local sources Fiji is now moving towards a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides, after the sugarcane industry announced that glyphosate will be banned for use on...

  • Seralini Calls for Retraction of ‘Biased’ EU Study on GM Maize

    a month ago
    • Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen has published a peer-reviewed paper criticising the EU-funded 2-year feeding study on GM maize that claimed to show no adverse...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 105 – 2020

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 103 – 2020

    4 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times Just as fascism led to World War II, communism has engendered the greatest global health catastrophe of our time. The Chinese Communist Party...

  • Don’t disregard the long-term threat from Tablighi Jamaat

    7 days ago
  • Wolf in sheep’s clothing? The Tablighi Jamaat claims to be apolitical but its ultimate goal — triumph in global jihad — underscores its political mission. Authorities in multiple...

  • The world will not be the same after the pandemic

    20 days ago
    • Brahma Chellaney, Washington Times Historically, major wars have fostered profound changes in societies and economies. Today’s China-originating pandemic has created an...

      Ramani's blog

  • His son was Daushyanti (i.e., born of Dushyanta) Bharata.To him was born a son named Chola after whom the Solar race on this earth became illustrious

  • Raghupati Raghav Rajaram , How Original Was Changed Gandhi

    13 days ago
    • I am surprised at the lengths people would go to appease a section of the Community at the cost of another by tampering with a religious song.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • The College Board relies on the revenues produced by its premier product, the SAT. What to do in a global pandemic? Normally the College Board is very obsessed with test security. But...

  • Dana Milbank: Is Trump Comparing Himself to Captain Bligh or Captain Queeg?

    12 hours ago
  • Dana Milbank of the Washington Post peers into Trump’s erratic and self-aggrandizing behavior, as tests for coronavirus continue to be few in number and very difficult to obtain...

  • Phoenix: COVID patient Saved by Rare and Risky Blood Treatment

    12 hours ago
    • Doctors in Arizona saved a Phoenix man With COVID 19, who was at death’s door, using a rare and risky procedure. This story, written by Alison Steinbach, appeared in The Arizona Republic...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • Last week the late night shows were still shaking down the details of broadcasts outside of their home studios.  While The Late Late Show was not back with new episodes, it did air a...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of March 23

    18 days ago
  • Last week most programs were either in repeats or attempting to figure out what kind of show they could do with a decentralized staff and production.  Many shows continued to generate...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of March 16

    22 days ago
    • With most parts of the U.S. under some level of virus-prompted restrictions, most talk programs went into repeats last week.  Some programs have offered segments of varying lengths...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey   The Mail discovers the Medieval Warming Period!!     Melting glaciers in Norway have revealed ancient artefacts dropped by the side of a road...

  • UK State Of The Climate Report 2019

    16 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood   GWPF has just published its latest UK Climate Report:   London, 16 April: The floods that affected northern England in the autumn of 2019 were nothing out of the...

  • Confidence In Media Plummets

    a day ago
    • By Paul Homewood     Guido has news of a very interesting recent poll:   The Coronavirus crisis has driven gains in confidence in almost all UK institutions, except for one. A new...

      NoTricksZone

  •  The radiative impact of CO2 on the ocean’s thermal skin layer cannot penetrate deeper than 0.01 mm. This effectively eliminates the potential for CO2 to be a driver of global warming...

  • Cooling Continent? Northern Europe Early Spring Now Coming Later, March Data Show

    2 days ago
  • March mean temperatures over Northern Europe showed an overall cooling trend and so with it a later start to spring, the data from the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) show. ...

  • Corona Exposes Inconvenient Truth: Pollution From Diesel Cars Grossly Over-hyped By German Activists

    3 days ago
    • Roland Tichy’s site here reports that although car traffic in the German city of Stuttgart has decreased significantly due to COVID-19, the drop in NO2 content has only been “slight”...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Janresseger: Coronavirus School Closures Will Force Us to Examine Failure of Standards-Based School Accountability How will students make up the work they are missing now that...

  • Yong Zhao: Tofu is not Cheese: Reimagine Education without Schools During Covid19 (1)

    a day ago
  • Yong Zhao: Tofu is not Cheese: Reimagine Education without Schools During Covid19 (1) What to Teach: Reimagine Curriculum Introduction “Tofu is not cheese” is what I said to...

  • Code Acts in Education: New Pandemic Edtech Power Networks

    2 days ago
    • Code Acts in Education: New Pandemic Edtech Power Networks New global networks of organizations have begun to propose technical policy solution to mass disruption to education...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Almost two weeks ago I offered at NRO a few synopses of various theories about why California — which, for a variety of reasons, had seemed...

  • The Thin Façade of Authority

    2 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The virus will teach us many things, but one lesson has already been relearned by the American people: there are two, quite different, types...

  • The Eeyore Syndrome

    7 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In A. A. Milne’s classic Winne-the-Pooh children’s tales, Eeyore, the old gray donkey, is perennially pessimistic and gloomy. He always...

    The Moderate Voice

  • President Donald Trump’s attacks on the World Health Organization and the United Nations are particularly graceless amid loud alarm bells about the damage Covid-19 is inflicting...

  • SIX REASONS WHY UNCLE JOE IS WELL POSITIONED TO TOPPLE TRUMP

    8 hours ago
  • Democrats have entered the hand-wringing phase of the election season, fretting about Joe Biden and poised to leap from their windows. I’ve been around this game long enough to...

  • The Evolving Saga of the USS Theodore Roosevelt

    9 hours ago
    • "I am certain Brett Crozier will be found to have acted honorably, with the best intentions for his ship, his crew and his Navy foremost in his heart." -- Brett Odom, a 1992 graduate of...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Now consider issues beyond specific user groups. The U.S. will almost certainly need to introduce a “track and...

  • Fast Grants, a project of Emergent Ventures against Covid-19, status update

    11 hours ago
  • As you may recall, the goal of Fast Grants is to support biomedical research to fight back Covid-19, thus restoring prosperity and liberty. Yesterday 40 awards were made, totaling...

  • Thursday assorted links

    12 hours ago
    • 1. Nicaragua still has a full calendar of sports (NYT). 2. An alternating lockdown strategy. 3. Vox on the Watney Stapp Mercatus mask plan. 4. Derek Lowe on vaccine prospects. 5. Will...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: You may have heard the news today that Trump fired the independent Inspector General in charge of monitoring the $2 trillion coronavirus...

  • There is No Return to Normal for the US Economy

    22 days ago
  • Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of Trump winning the election are slim at best no matter what he does. Continue reading →

  • David Leonhardt: What Trump Has Said About Coronavirus

    a month ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The main reason that the U.S. was unprepared to respond promptly to the coronavirus was that Trump repeatedly told the public that it was...

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  • American taxpayers might have subsidized the outbreak of the Chinese virus pandemic with research grants to the lab that officials think loosed the deadly pathogen upon the world...

  • Microsoft Airs — Then Deletes — Ad Featuring “Spirit Cooking” Artist

    7 hours ago
  • Marina Abramović, the controversial performance artist who came under scrutiny for her e-mail to John Podesta, was the star of an ill-received Microsoft ad.   ...

  • N.J. Governor Says Bill of Rights “Above My Pay Grade” When Asked About Lockdown Orders

    8 hours ago
    • Did we just learn that New Jersey governor Phil Murphy didn’t mean a word of the oath of office he took in 2018? Back then he “solemnly” swore to “support” and “bear true...

      MintPress News

  • While New York City suffers through coronavirus, it’s worth recalling that in the name of science in 1966, the U.S. government released bacteria in the New York subways. And that...

  • The Virus of Occupation: Israelis Have Taken To Spitting on Palestinians During Coronavirus

    16 hours ago
  • Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story.  The post The Virus of Occupation: Israelis Have Taken To...

  • GOP Tax Cuts in Coronavirus Relief Bill Give 82% of Benefits to Millionaires and Billionaires

    a day ago
    • A new report suggests that a tax cut quietly inserted into the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act will add almost $170 billion to the deficit over the next ten years...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Airbreak - jailbreaking CPAP machines to turn them into ventilators(tags:software medicine hacking impressive pandemic )The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest...

  • Interesting Links for 15-04-2020

    2 days ago
  • Coronavirus: Scottish government denies claims that English NHS are being given safety equipment priority(tags:uk scotland safety pandemic )Bloomberg News Killed Chinese Wealth...

  • Interesting Links for 14-04-2020

    3 days ago
    • Pensioner Accidentally Ejected Out Of Jet(tags:airplanes fail )As Divisions Harden, Is Time Running Out for Cyprus Reunification?(tags:Cyprus )Otherworldly Images of Andromeda...


      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I am slipping badly on the blog regularity, from last thing at night to “Screw it, I’ll write it in the morning,” and then since we’re in quarantine anyway there’s no pressure...

  • Lesser of Two Wasted Votes

    2 days ago
  • I’ve been giving the matter some thought. Of course, it’s thought filtered through rage, frustration, and disappointment, but nonetheless, I’ve been giving the matter of...

  • Personality Tests

    3 days ago
    • There’s one I’ve seen on Facebook several times now, there’s a big triangle composed of many smaller triangles and a few rhomboids, and all you have to do is say how many triangles...

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