Saturday, April 04, 2020

4 April - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

  • Nature is incredibly creative and never stops to amaze me. Are you are a nature enthusiast? You will certainly enjoy these collections of flowers.  Flowers are considered symbols...
  • In this unusual time, many unforeseen difficulties and anxieties can appear. Yet it’s also an opportunity, an awakening for humanity to rise to the challenges. During this stressful...
    • Positive psychology research shows that gratitude is firmly and invariably associated with more elevated happiness.  Why would gratitude be important? Gratitude helps people...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

    • There are no articles found. Please check feed URL is correct and if needs user authentication then please provide correct username and password.

      Have You Heard

  • TweetThis isn’t the first time schools have shuttered in the wake of a pandemic. Resident education historian Jack Schneider on what we can learn from school closures past. Meanwhile...
  • 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...

      Chicago Boyz

    • 9 hours ago
  • El Mago Del Ponche is the official tire wallah of the Chicagoboyz blog.
  • GE Healthcare, which is ramping up ventilator production, is using 3-D printing both to make parts directly and to make molds for injection molding.  However, the chief engineer...
    • This column is the opening of a 75th Anniversary series on the WW2 Okinawa campaign

      Centinel2012

  • Now We Know Why Chuck’s Crying President Trump: “I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President” ...
  • Now is not the time for passive acceptance.  Our health, wealth, liberty, and way of life are at stake, and so is our country Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Eitan Adut —— Bio...
    • NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Andrew G. Benjamin —— Bio and Archives—April 3, 2020 Whomever you are, whatever you are doing at this very moment...
  • Today, we devote the bulk of The BradCast to HBO's new documentary film, released just last week and considered important enough that the premium cable channel will be making it available...
  • On today's BradCast: Yes, it is as bad as we warned it would be. And it is getting even worse. And the way some state officials are now behaving, even upcoming elections may be unable to...
    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Critical United Nations climate conference cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic; Bankrupt coal company hopes to dump obligations to retired miners onto...

      bluebird of bitterness


  • Friday happy dance

    17 hours ago

  • Find the chick!

    2 days ago
    • A chick is hiding somewhere among the rabbits. See if you can find it.
  • Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps...
  • Beyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to join a coalition of more than 40 environmental and anti-nuclear organizations across the country, led by Natural Resources Defense...
    • As reported by the Missoula Current. See the second story down the article. The article reports: [T]he TVA has worked to adapt to the crisis, including reducing power at some plants...
  • This is definitely not a good look. At a time when the federal government is struggling to manage its $2 trillion bailouts for main street and SMEs, a handful of Goldman Sachs insiders...
  • Avowed socialist and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has announced the creation of a global fund meant to address the coronavirus pandemic. He is asking for all...
    • Police in Delaware have been given the authority to pull over out-of-state drivers during the coronavirus pandemic. Delaware State Police say Gov. John Carney’s state of emergency...
  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Psycholinguists have taken a scientific approach to…
  • By Emma Young. Study is the first to look at psychopaths' eye movements in a naturalistic setting.
    • By Emily Reynolds. We'd rather improve non-moral traits, like reducing anxiety or increasing creativity, than become more honest or loyal.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • When Nicole LaBouff and Emily Beck first decided to create a modern version of plague water, the potent herbal liquor that early-modern Europeans believed could help prevent epidemics...
  • As we’re all learning these days, not all hibernations are happy ones. Some are punctuated with boredom, bad sleep, and morose, empty food stores. Cave bears could relate. Turns...
    • You can find the Galata House Restaurant on a dimly lit side street in Istanbul, hidden away in the shadow of the tall, unwavering silhouette of the famed Galata Tower. But while the...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Texas King - Drifter
  • Friday Afternoon Links

    12 hours ago
  • Assorted content to end your week.- Paul Wells highlights the futility in telling people to stay home when they lack a home to stay in. And Robyn Urback discusses the simple test of character...
    • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jeet Heer writes about the class war already emerging in competing responses to the coronavirus epidemic. Ricardo Tranjan makes the case...

    No comments: