A
16th century shipwreck has been found in Northern Italy. But is it a
long lost galleon people have been searching for since the 1970s?
Gabriele Succi and Edoardo Sbaraini of Rasta...
A
Viking settlement has been discovered in Iceland, thought to be the
country’s oldest. Sounds straightforward? Not at all! The structure was
found under another one. And it may...
US
Jobless Now Well over 50 Million after 1.5 Initial Insurance Claims
Last Week; GDP Drops at 5% Rate in First Quarter, with Worse to Come;
Day of Reckoning Approaches by End of July...
United
Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System
Network|Thursday, June 25, 2020 Biden Plan Includes Ceiling of 8.5% of
Personal Income Spent on Health Care...
The
Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico’s
Environment Ministry, has announced that glyphosate-based herbicides
will be phased out of use in...
3 days ago
Bayer-Monsanto
have announced that the company will make a total payment of $10.1
billion to $10.9 billion (€9.1 billion to €9.8 billion) to settle the
non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma...
3 days ago
Brahma
Chellaney, OPEN Magazine FIGHTING TWO BATTLES simultaneously — one
against Chinese aggression in Ladakh and another against the
China-originating coronavirus — India...
From
Hong Kong to Himalayas, Xi Jinping seizes on disarray to expand China’s
global footprints Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review President Xi
Jinping, seeking to press China’s...
Wherever Shiva is present Devi is there and wherever Devi is present Shiva IS.
A
nation that convinces itself that it's history is a myth; it's heroes
were mere legends;which considers teaching young from earliest School
level it's history is a Sin...
Jan
Resseger writes here to refute Trump and Betsy DeVos’s ridiculous claim
that school choice is a “civil rights issue.” As she points out,
charter schools and vouchers divert...
Maria
Popova is a voracious reader. She posts her reflections on literature,
which she calls “Brain Pickings.” She reads widely and writes about
whatever interests her. Her...
The
week of May 18th marked two months since most late night and daytime
talk programs had ceased normal production of their shows. Some of them
aired repeats, as would have been customary...
With
a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an
interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment
content to promote, the late night and daytime...
By
Paul Homewood Much to the joy of Matt McGrath, Ireland is on the
verge of committing economic suicide. Ireland stands on the brink of
putting climate change at the heart of its government...
By
Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey The Conversation has now got
involved in the Arctic heatwave scare, with this article by Jonathan
Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography...
By
Kirye and Pierre Gosselin This is how alarmists operate today: Find one
single extreme weather event and immediately behold it as proof of an
impending climate change catastrophe...
The
myth of increasing European drought By Frank Bosse (Translated, edited
by P Gosselin) It sounds so simple: it is undoubtedly getting warmer in
Central Europe, and this is leading...
Answer
Sheet: New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform
Over the past five years, the Summit Learning Platform has become one
of the best-known online platforms...
Jersey
Jazzman: On Comparing Education Spending Across Time I’ve noticed a lot
of back-and-forth recently on social media about education spending –
specifically, on how spending...
9 days ago
Victor
Davis Hanson // National Review The old 2020 election was supposed to
be about many familiar issues. It is not anymore. Up until now, the
candidates themselves would supposedly...
Victor
Davis Hanson // National Review In Aesop’s Fables and
Horace’s Satires a common classical allegory is variously retold about
the country mouse and his sophisticated...
Paris
(AFP) – French cosmetics giant L’Oreal announced Saturday it was
removing words like “whitening” from its products, against the backdrop
of global anti-racism protests...
Not
to worry Texas. On Friday, an even higher authority told you so. None
other than the vice president of the United States told the country once
again not to worry. As coronavirus numbers...
1.
Another shoutout to Progress Studies School (for high school students,
though not only). 2. “Today’s most serious problem, which annihilates
thoughtfulness about all others...
That
is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, easier read through than
excerpted, but here is one bit: When no one can see our countenances, we
may behave differently. One study found...
Originally
posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: This is a very important piece. Please
read it and share it. It’s by a 10-year veteran of some city in
California, who calls himself a bastard...
City
workers attempted to clear out barriers at the edge of CHOP, but were
sent home empty-handed after protesters blocked their machinery.
The
current unrest convulsing our nation certainly does reflect treason,
sedition, and insurrection, though some may wonder how many are
noticing. But President Trump certainly...
At
a time when the world is crying out for justice, it behooves Israel to
reverse its destructive policies toward Palestinians – and responsible
journalism to ignore the bullies...
COVI-PASS
will determine whether you can go to a restaurant, if you need a
medical test, or are due for a talking-to by authorities in a post-COVID
world. Consent is voluntary, but enforcement...
Why
the earliest sign of civilisation is a healed femur(tags:civilization
)Last of Us Part II: Is this the most accessible game ever?(tags:games
disability accessibility )Scottish...
6 days ago
The
Best Dad Jokes to Tell on Father's Day(tags:jokes fatherhood )Britain's
role in slavery was not to end it, but to thwart abolition at every
turn(tags:UK history slavery )Why does...
7 days ago
Doxxing
is not very nice. I don’t know if it’s actually illegal. That’s kind of
a gray area, because on the one hand it’s freedom of speech and freedom
of information, on the...
So,
The Dixie Chicks have shortened their name to The Chicks, which is not
too surprising, it goes along with all the Confederate flag banning and
statue trashing which I’m generally...
We
walked through our tiny patch of forest (compared to Goose Creek) in
the rain–of course, in the Monsoon of June–on our third full day at what
I used to refer to as The Other Place...
Vietnam:
How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero –
CNN Why can’t we learn to do what successful states and nations do that
is working? Business as usual...
Path
of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information
(mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked
tool for thought) and into a place...
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