Saturday, March 14, 2020

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  • When you’re the world’s oldest 21-yr-old, having a drink might be a big deal. Turning 21 is a big milestone for most people, as it marks the time when they are legally able to drink. ...
  • A mansion right next to the epic Lincoln cathedral is for sale. The U.K. has some incredible, and incredibly historic, properties across the land. After all, the country dates back...
    • Philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton has been put on display at University College London (UCL). But there’s a difference! Instead of bones, students will be seeing a whole...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on Trust, yet verify: It has been a while since last post (on the Doctor’s analogy skeptic style). This post will be a bit different. It will be about energy, more...

    • For 11th straight year, S&P 500 out-performed the avg. hedge fund in 2019 (31.2% v. 10.7%). $100K invested Jan. 2009 in the avg. hedge fund would be worth $198K today vs. $444,461...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, March 12, 2020 Powell’s Fed Opens Cash Firehose to Bail out Wall Street Repo Market, Will...
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Dow Crashes 1,465 Points, Ending 11-Year Old Bull Market; In Bank Bailout...
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, and All Democratic Leaders Must Immediately Condemn...
  • Genetically modified (GM) Bt cotton produces its own insecticide. The seeds were introduced in India in 2002 and today account for 90% of all cotton planting in the country. Bt cotton...
  • A California shareholder of Bayer AG on Friday filed a lawsuit against the companies’ top executives claiming they breached their duty of “prudence” and “loyalty”...
    • A new peer reviewed paper published in the international Environmental Sciences Europe journal has focused for the first time on the risk assessment of so-called next generation...
  • South / North
  • South / North
    • Today’s Global Sea Ice Higher Than: 2017 2006 2018 2019 2011 2016 2007 1997 1992 1991 2005 2020 …   South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for a world that has accepted China’s lengthening shadow over global supply chains for far too long. Only by reducing China’s global...
  • BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Japan Times The growing global crisis over the spread of a deadly coronavirus from China — which, instead of quickly instituting public health warnings...
    • BRAHMA CHELLANEY SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL The blossoming of the U.S.-India strategic partnership has become an important diplomatic asset for both countries, which explains...

      Ramani's blog

    • When we reflect what had given us joy or pleasure, they are not the instruments of pleasure like relationships or Money but small instances that have given us Sublime joy...
  • The Washington Post published this cautionary story by Carolyn Y. Johnson and William Wan about the rules for dealing with a public health crisis. Above all: Be honest. Level with...
  • I earlier quoted a story in the New York Times that said the CDC recommended that schools should close for eight weeks. The story said: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
    • Steve Hinnefeld reports that Indiana’s education leadership is showing real leadership by seeking to cancel the state tests. The time to do so is now, because children and families...
  • Aside from the increasing number of cracks by late night hosts about the coronavirus pandemic, the last week of February was pretty light where science and technology guests are concerned. ...
  • Some programs were off this past week in connection with the President’s Day holiday in the United States.  Of those repeats, “Science Bob” Pflugfelder’s recent appearance...
    • This past week was a clear break from the recent months of limited science and technology content.  “Science Bob” Pflugfelder returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 10 (Monday). ...
  • By Paul Homewood   Dominic Lawson talks to Brendan O’Neill about Brexit, climate change and ‘the apocalypse’.   The first half covers Brexit and other issues, but it’s...
  • By Paul Homewood   Most of you have probably already heard about Prince Harry being duped.     PRINCE Harry spoke openly of his agony over Megxit in a call from hoaxers posing as activist...
    • By Paul Homewood   h/t Dennis Ambler     The European Green Deal risks deepening economic and social divisions between east and western EU countries, trade unions say, warning...
  • The “Streetscooter”: Electric Mobility’s First Large Bankruptcy Image: From Superbass – own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org By AR Göhring, European Institute...
  • By Kirye and Pierre Gosselin It’s been a particularly mild winter in Europe this year. But that hasn’t changed the long-term trend over the past 30 years. Now that the February...
    • Several new studies use evidence from temperature-sensitive plant species and megafauna remains to reconstruct an Arctic climate that was 6°C to 22°C warmer than today when CO2...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Expertise@Scale: How Do I Move My Class Online This Week? We’ve done 7+ years of research on creating better online learning opportunities. With the rapidly worsening situation...
  • Answer Sheet: At This High-Poverty High School, College Comes Early to Students Nurse Felicia Hawkins talks with student James Dixon at Denver’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early...
    • Equity Alliance: Making School Choice More Equitable in an Era of Rising Inequality In April 2019, the Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing about...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy — which, of course, is exactly...
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Joe Biden lost it again on the campaign trail at an auto plant being built in Detroit, and in a now familiar script. His blowup had all his characteristic...
    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Iran has misjudged not only the toxic effects of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” sanctions on the regime but also the...

    The Moderate Voice

  • "Wish you all the best - please don’t let your leaders underrate this virus: we’re living surrounded by it and it’s truly bad. Hope that on your side of the ocean you may learn from...
  • The U.S. has been scrambling to get testing for the coronavirus up to speed. AP Photo/Francois Mori Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology The U.S. government is fighting...
    • New Delhi (AFP) – Dozens of Hindu activists held a cow urine party in the Indian capital Saturday to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, as countries around the world struggle...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • I just checked clinicaltrials.gov. Right now, it seems that remdesivir is only anti-corona drug in US clinical trial. That is crazy.  Here is some China action. Fix this now.  I...
  • 1. Penelope Fitzgerald, late bloomer. 2. “And Buggiani’s not joking around either. The penalty for engaging in sexual activity that exceeds two individuals is a fine of €875...
    • From Martin Permin, for formatting reasons I have imposed no further indentation: “Thanks for the excellent coverage on MR. I lead a small team of tech workers in Copenhagen, who...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Teresa Hanafin writes Fast Forward for the Boston Globe. She writes: Trump has canceled his planned trip to the CDC today, and I figured...
  • Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: When I joined the Marines in 1965, I wasn’t thinking of the flag or what freedom meant. I joined for another reason. I wanted to know...
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jackie Goldberg is running for re-election to the Los Angeles Unified School Board. She is an experienced public official who has supported...
  • Senator Ron Johnson wants to subpoena records and documents from Blue Star Strategies, which was contacted by Burisma while Hunter Biden worked there.
  • In an extraordinary press conference, President Trump, surrounded by the vice president, federal agency heads, and industry leaders, announced the declaration of a national emergency...
    • If you missed hearing about the terrible threatening performance recently given by the Senate’s Democratic leader, don’t be surprised.
  • The money spent was equal to the total amount of US student debt, more than twice as much as the Wall Street bailout of 2008 and nearly 30 times the net worth of former New York mayor Michael...
  • Manning was confined for 365 days or one year after being held in civil contempt because she refused to testify before a grand jury empaneled to investigate WikiLeaks. The post Judge...
    • While the government has found plenty of money to carry out wars around the globe (the Trump administration increased the military budget to $934 billion), when it comes to policies...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Explaining the UK government's Coronavirus plan(tags:disease uk government )Have some very round animals.(tags:animals cute )The sneeze fetishists are having the best time(tags:fetish...
  • There are two approaches to a pandemic. And which one you take depends on whether you think it can be controlled.If you think that it can be stopped then you trace every case, you find...
    • UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy(tags:disease UK government )Boris Johnson's hero is the mayor in Jaws who keeps the beach open while a shark eats the citizens(tags:BorisJohnson...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

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      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • In some ways it’s been a rather productive day. We (well, Helena really) got my Rheets 2019 book finished and sent off to the publisher, so that will be available on Amazon soon and...
  • Debate Expectations

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  • Of course, I’m expecting a good result from the debate Sunday night, but a lot of people on my Sanders pages seem to be counting on a full blown Biden meltdown.I wouldn’t expect that...
    • As far as this obnoxious electability argument goes, here are a few reasons why Sanders is the more electable candidate against Trump.1. He is on the right side of almost every issue...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • So if I set up a kind of schedule and framework–say for every Thursday–maybe I’ll do a better job of posting at least once a week? Does it matter? Only that it might make me less the...
  • Trees matter, forests matter. Terrestrial life has been defined by forests where it has evolved.
    • How do two occasional grandparents make their first and maybe only week with their 8 yr old grandson memorable, beneficial and fun?

    14 March - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

    Teach Children To Express And Control Anger As Well As Frustrations

    9 hours ago
  • Too often, we forget how essential it is to care for our children on an emotional level. We make sure that they are clothed, fed, and have a warm bed, yet those are not the only things that...
  • Most of you find it hard to say “no,” whether it’s with family members, in your profession, colleagues, relationships, and even friendships. You start to say “no,” yet...
    • 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.”...

    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...


  •   Chicago Boyz



  • I had been half-expecting that San Antonio would cancel or delay the yearly Fiesta; this was made official Friday morning: put off the celebrations until November. Fiesta San Antonio...
  • A lot of people…office workers, students…are going to be getting their first experience of remote working, and a lot of organizations are going to be getting either their first...
  • Paranoia Anecdotes

    2 days ago

    • I thought I would just include anecdotes about paranoia and comment on them as a way of getting information across. Update!  One of the other social workers told me today that she thinks...

  • We think the hype about the coronavirus is overblown. Sure, it’s more dangerous than the average flu bug because nobody has had a chance build immunity. The old and infirm can die...
  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 2009 flu pandemic in the United States was a novel strain of the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as “swine flu“...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Gov’t Incompetence Re-Posted Mar 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong A FICTIONAL EXERCISE TO CONTROL PANDEMIC – Oct. 18, 2019 – That is Destroying the World...

  • It's NICOLE SANDLER, back again to guest host today's BradCast. With everything around us consumed with coronavirus, I thought we could use a short break from it. So, after an update...
  • On today's BradCast: Donald Trump's error-laden prime-time speech to the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night did little to ease the nation's anxieties over the coronavirus...

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coronavirus is officially a pandemic, with uncertain long term impacts for our climate crisis; GM bets big on all-electric vehicles; Honolulu, Hawaii sues...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Let them eat pi

    10 hours ago
  • Borrowed from my friend mindful webworker.
  • Friday happy dance

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  • Thirty-four years ago in Moscow I watched the government mishandle a disaster. Why does it feel like it was just yesterday? An Opinion piece in the New York Times, by Serge Schmemann...
  • The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance irradiated...

    • Thom HartmannNine years on from Fukushima, the Japanese government is forcing people to return to their contaminated homes, despite the dangers of radioactivity. Beyond Nuclear's...

  • Fear of the coronavirus is causing shutdowns on a global scale like we have never seen before.  Just about every major sporting event that you can think of has been either canceled...
  • The Connecticut State Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to a man its officers subjected to a bunch of Constitutional violations on their way to issuing tickets to him for violations...

    • Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too...

  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
  • By Emily Reynolds. Thinking about and editing selfies was related to self-objectification and worse body image — but simply sharing selfies was not.

    • By Emma Young. Findings come from analysis of millions of pages of online text from 45 different languages

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • In front of Tokyo's ĹŚimachi Station stands a bronze statue of a woman, with one arm holding a little boy’s hand and the other raising toward the sky. On her raised hand, a bird perches...
  • While driving through Kansas, where the horizons dive into the sky forever in every direction, two spires rise from the fields south of I-70 between Hayes and Russell.  The Basilica...

    • The quiet Carinthian village of Malta, Austria, is home to a peculiar fresco that is some 600 years ahead of its time. On the wall of Maria Hilf Assumptio, the parish church that dates...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Fernanda Tomaselli and Sandeep Pal point out that the Canadian public is well ahead of its political class in recognizing that there's...
  • Musical interlude

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  • Seven Lions feat. Lynn Gunn - Lose Myself

    • Assorted content to end your week.- Todd Gordon and Geoffrey McCormack write about Canada's crisis of capitalism - which is only being laid bare by a coronavirus pandemic exposing...

    14 March - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - The Narrative (MSM)

  • A lot of things are disrupting Hollywood, but not (actual) light-speed travel. Maybe it's time to rethink our priorities.
  • Plus: A Comcast blunder, a Clearview AI lawsuit, and more of the week's top security news.
    • Some cosmic catharsis for all the coronavirus-related anxiety you might be feeling at the moment.

      NYT > Home Page

  • President Trump says he’s been tested, New York reports its first virus-related death, and a cruise ship exposed to the virus is heading to France.
  • Medical professionals plan for a surge in coronavirus cases.
    • “We are not prepared,” one doctor said. New York City’s hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say.

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti


  • With reports of confirmed coronavirus positive cases from states now touching 100 including two deaths (health ministry figures put the number of cases at 84), government on Saturday...
    • The count of those infected by the novel coronavirus countrywide touched 100, according to reports from the states, though the Union home ministry put the official infection number...
  • Hundreds of scientists write to the government calling for tougher measures to tackle Covid-19.
  • Ten more people have died after testing positive for the virus, NHS England says.
    • The new restriction will come into force in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

      Reuters: World News

  • Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread...
  • Israel will shut malls, hotels and restaurants in a partial shutdown of its economy starting on Sunday and use anti-terrorism tracking technology to minimize the risk of coronavirus...
    • Libya's Tripoli-based Government of National Accord has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus and will close all air and sea ports from Monday, Prime Minister Fayez...