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From Jenna Orkin Russia to Deploy Military Police to Golan Heights Entire Police Force Quits In This Massachusetts Town...
From Jenna Orkin Russia to Deploy Military Police to Golan Heights Entire Police Force Quits In This Massachusetts Town Superbugs Are Becoming Resistant To Alcohol Disinfectants Disney Buys Most of Fox George H.W. Bush’s Former Doctor Possibly Murdered by Trained Killer How History Classes Helped Create a Post Truth America Matt Taibbi: Beware The Slippery Slope Of Facebook Censorship The $3 Bill
From Jenna Orkin Overpopulation Finally Being Recognized on Facebook video . Coal Plant Going Fully Renewable(?) video ...
From Jenna Orkin Overpopulation Finally Being Recognized on Facebook video . Coal Plant Going Fully Renewable(?) video . Trump Admin Proposes Auto Plan that Would Increase Fuel Use by 500k Barrels a day California's Native Americans Now Want to Secede From Trump's America Paper Ballots are Hack Proof. It's Time to Bring Them Back Protein in Spider Venom Can Help Protect Against Stroke video . Vis
From Jenna Orkin War Is A Racket: After 17 Years And Billions Wasted, US Seeks Peace With Taliban How a Chinese region ...
From Jenna Orkin War Is A Racket: After 17 Years And Billions Wasted, US Seeks Peace With Taliban How a Chinese region that accounts for just 1.5% of the population became one of the most intrusive police states in the world Florida Launches Gun Confiscation Program, 467 Forced To Surrender Guns Manhattan DA Will No Longer Prosecute Smoking Or Posession Of Marijuana Uranium Leaked Through Floor o
From Jenna Orkin Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds that Medicare for All Would Cut Spending Cal Fire Estimates 300 Fires in ...
From Jenna Orkin Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds that Medicare for All Would Cut Spending Cal Fire Estimates 300 Fires in California Mysterious Source of Illegal Ozone-Killing Emissions Revealed Poison Garden video . World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines by 90% Venezuela's president admits economy has failed "I Go Days Without Eating": Some Amazon Workers Left Homeless After Workplace Injurie
From Jenna Orkin The new MH370 report rejects the most horrific theory of all about why the plane disappeared Dow's Dio...
From Jenna Orkin The new MH370 report rejects the most horrific theory of all about why the plane disappeared Dow's Dioxin Lawyer Trump's Choice to Run Superfund Program 'If you keep working, you will die': London bankers in their 20s and 30s are having more heart attacks, doctors say Facebook, Zuck Sued By "Shocked" Shareholders As "The Truth" Emerges Robert Fisk: "I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casi
From Jenna Orkin Temperatures Near or Pass All Time Records in Europe Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: DIY Medicine Wor...
From Jenna Orkin Temperatures Near or Pass All Time Records in Europe Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: DIY Medicine Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life Hackers Break Into Voting Machines Within 2 Hours at Defcon Scientists Transfer a Memory Between Snails video . Canada Using Ancestry DNA Websites to Help it Deport People Cancer Cells Engineered to Fight Their Own
THE REFERENCE FRAME
Aaronson's teenage student amazingly proves that Aaronson's strong beliefs are only "backed" by arrogance, bigotry
Ewin Tang proved the opposite task than Scott Aaronson assigned him as if it were a fact I think that Scott Aaronson is an intelligent man but over the years, I have pointed out that he's staggeringly irrational – and therefore not very intelligent – in a wide variety of issues. Those include most of the political questions which is unsurprising but Aaronson also holds strong beliefs that directl
Edward Witten, dinner table group think, and \(P=NP\)
Scott Aaronson has posted at least two new comments here in which he demands to be considered a "possible co-author" of a paper by Ewin Tang that has found a recommendation algorithm that Aaronson insisted to be impossible. I think that given Aaronson's frantic efforts to discourage this kind of research, it would be insane if he were a co-author of Tang's paper. Aaronson is testing the waters – c
Tomáš Haas, Czech Steve Bannon (1947-2018)
On Friday, Mr Tomáš Haas died at 15:30. Lots of his Facebook friends including your humble correspondent were sad. He was a major Czech right-wing thinker and a former aide to President Klaus and two Czech prime ministers – he was perhaps one of the crucial guys who do lots of the mental work behind the scenes but remain largely unknown to everybody. His health problems have lasted for some year o
Postulates of quantum mechanics almost directly follow from experiments
Most of the ordinary people who have tried to understand modern physics find the novel logical framework of quantum mechanics challenging. Some of them have become full-blown anti-quantum zealots which means that they scream "it cannot be true", "physics must ultimately be governed by the logic of classical physics" – well, they love to use different words but this is exactly what they mean. Altho
Cohl Furey understands neither field theory nor octonions
Her mathematical masturbations are physically meaningless Quanta Magazine's Natalie Wolchover wrote a cheesy celebration The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature of a would-be theory of everything by Ms Cohl Furey that is claimed to be based on the octonions \({\mathbb O}\). If you read it, the human part of the story as well as the spirit of the mathematics used for physics sound
Einstein's breakthrough was far deeper, more philosophical than assumed
Relativity is about general, qualitative principles, not about light or particular objects and gadgets Some days ago, we had interesting discussions about the special theory of relativity, its main message, the way of thinking, the essence of Einstein's genius and his paradigm shift, and the good and bad ways how relativity is presented to the kids and others. Newton has introduced mathematics to
GLOBALOVE THINK TANK
LA massacere super soldier RNR?
GlobaLove Think Tank / 1d
If you believe in super soldiers and I do then what happened in Vegas makes sense a super soldier went nuts and blew away a concert and a civilian took the blame. I have some experience totally tangential that confirms super soldier exist and they are kept on a tight chain but when they drop down death from above on anyone or anything victory is assured and for freedom that has to be a good thing
GOVERNMENT AND TAXES
BWorld 238, Trademark ban and health alarmism
Government and Taxes / 1d
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Wednesday, August 01, 2018. Health alarmism is the practice of frequently looking at health conditions pessimistically and then calling for more government regulations, taxation, and prohibitions supposedly to ameliorate the perceived pessimism. Smoking is something that many people indulge in despite awareness of its dangers. The reason is that people o
US-CN 'trade war' pummels CN the protectionist
Government and Taxes / 1d
With renewed US-CN 'trade war' stories, CN markets and investments are heavily rattled, this week's stockmarkets close, Shenzhen is -21.8% year to date (ytd), Shanghai is -17.1% ytd. As the rhetorics linger, CN markets get deeper into the hole. Which shows how protectionist, how stealth CN is in doing intl business that people cringe at the fear of being discovered. CN remains the worst performin
BWorld 237, The sharing economy index
Government and Taxes / 2d
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last July 30, 2018. The “sharing economy” involves strangers sharing several services among themselves without being forced or mandated by a government to do so. They do so voluntarily, allowing suppliers to earn income for services they are willing to provide to consumers who are willing to avail of them at a price both have agreed upon. A new report, the fi
US GDP growth the past 25 years
Government and Taxes / 2d
Here are the numbers. The most dynamic were 8 years of the Bill (5 yrs of 4% or higher growth), the most pathetic were 8 years of "hope and change" (zero year of 3% or higher growth). Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Bush Jr. 1 started with 9/11 attacks in 2001, then ended with the start of US finance turmoil in 2008. Still it has 2 years of above 3% growth. Obama inherited only the 2
BWorld 236, Two years of Duterte energy policies
Government and Taxes / 2d
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on July 26, 2018. For the past two years, the Duterte administration has produced a mix of bad and good policies from the perspective of market-oriented reforms envisioned in the EPIRA law of 2001. Four recent stories in BusinessWorld would serve as jump-off points of this assessment: 1. Finance dep’t studying carbon-emissions tax (July 20). 2. Flawed DoE assu
Climate Tricks 69, Junkets to 'save the planet' limited by Duterte
Government and Taxes / 8d
This is among the very few instances where I clap and support President Duterte :-) Duterte to send only one representative to climate change meetings abroad July 26, 2018 | 8:22 pm http://www.bworldonline.com/duterte-to-send-only-one-representative-to-climate-change-meetings-abroad/ 'He added: “There’s a climate change in Africa and they are there. There’s a climate change in New Zealand and the
CENTAURI DREAMS
Revising the Classical ‘Habitable Zone’
With my time-out period over (more about this next week), I want to get back into gear with the help of Ramses Ramirez, a specialist on planetary habitability whose work has now taken him to Japan. Born and raised in New York City, Ramses tells me he is much at home in his new position as a research scientist at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) in Tokyo, where opportunities for scientific
The Apkallu Initiative: A Minilithic Artefact for Rebooting Human Civilization in the Event of Global Cataclysm
Kelvin Long is a familiar face on Centauri Dreams, the author of several previous articles here and many publications in the field of interstellar studies. The creator of Project Icarus, the re-design of the Project Daedalus starship of the 1970s, Long was a co-founder of Icarus Interstellar and went on to head the Initiative for Interstellar Studies . He also served as editor of the Journal of t
Ross 128b: Analyzing a Planet by the Light of its Star
Red dwarfs have a lot of things going for them when it comes to finding possibly habitable planets. A planet of Earth size in the HZ will produce a substantial transit signal because of the small size of the star (‘transit depth’ refers to the amount of the star’s light that is blocked by the planet), and the tight orbit the planet must follow increases the geometric probability of observing a tr
Pluto Maps Inspire Thoughts of Bradbury
Something happens when we start making maps of hitherto unknown terrain. A sense of familiarity begins to settle in, a pre- and post-visit linearity, even when the landscape is billions of miles away. To put a name on a place and put that name on a map is a focusing that turns a bleary imagined place into a surface of mountains and valleys, a place that from now on will carry a human perspective.
Unusual Companion for a Brown Dwarf Binary
A cluster of stars sharing a common origin, now gravitationally unbound, is referred to as a stellar association . I’ve written before about how useful some of these groupings can be. In the form of so-called moving groups — a stellar association that is still somewhat coherent — they help us identify stars of similar age, an aid as we discover new objects. Now we have word of an object called 2M
Listening in on Enceladus
When I was a boy, I used to scan shortwave frequencies with an old Lafayette receiver in search of distant stations. When I learned that Jupiter was a radio source, my passion for radio DXing took a new turn, merging with my interest in
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