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In today’s world, we take the idea of having extremely powerful computers not only accessible to us, but literally in our pockets.  We use them to shop, play games, and look at memes...

Fancy a night at a haunted hostelry? The Mermaid Inn, centuries old and found in the English town of Rye, might be just the ticket. Current owner Judith Blincow offers all mod cons, from...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, February 27, 2020 Dow Futures Turned Negative During Trump’s Catastrophic Press Conference...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Biden Gets Key Endorsement from Rep James Clyburn, the Third Ranking...

Chairman Werner Wenning, one of the architects of a $63 billion takeover deal that has left the German crop protection company fighting costly lawsuits, will step down in April, it...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a French court have dealt separate blows to the Biotech industry and their attempt to slide new gene editing techniques through the...

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It speaks for itself that there has been no major Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack since India’s Balakot airstrike, which punched a hole through Pakistan’s nuclear shield...

Brahma Chellaney, Open Magazine US President Donald Trump’s India visit, with his wife Melania, is significant for several reasons, including the fact that this is his first overseas...

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...

California spends less per pupil than most states. Its schools have been underfunded for decades. Reverse the many years of neglect and support the children by voting YES on Prop 13...

https://www.educationdive.com/news/is-edtpa-standing-in-the-way-of-getting-more-teachers-into-classrooms/572969/ Educators disagree about the value, validity...

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     h/t Dave Ward     Dave sent me a copy of this snippet from The Mail today:        Indeed everything I have seen so far suggests that the rainfall this month is...

By Paul Homewood   George Clooney is worried that his tennis court is under a couple inches of water at his £12m mansion on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire:    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11010338/george-clooney-berkshire-mansion-storm-dennis-floods/...

German t-online.de news portal here reports how yesterday large areas of central and southern Germany saw the power fail yesterday due to “snow and storms.”   Power outages...

The perspective that polar bears  are endangered by global warming because reduced sea ice limits their seal-hunting opportunities is contradicted by observations of (a) polar...

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen Not only are school districts spending huge sums on laptops with...

Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You Photo credit: Virginia Department of Education / flickr / cc In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education...

From An Angry Reader: Subject: Gray Matter Your articles are so offensively lacking in context, thoughtfulness, and reflection on history–basically simpleminded attack ads–...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Donald Trump has at least five strong historical arguments for his reelection. One, he is an incumbent. Incumbent presidents have won 14...

We have Julius Caesar to thank for the existence of 29 February 2020, a.k.a. Leap Day 2020. “During the Late [Roman] Republic, social disorder, political strife and an ongoing series...

People living in Italy, Iran, and South Korea are all grappling with a surgein the number of cases of COVID-19. In Italy, where officials report528 people are infected and 14 have died...

1. How Cuba manipulates infant mortality and life expectancy statistics. 2. “Drivers of higher cost cars were less likely to yield to pedestrians at a midblock crosswalk.” ...

Good post from Nicholas Bagley in 2016 at the Incidental Economist. Every disease provokes its own unique dread and its own complex public reaction, but themes recurred across outbreaks...

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...

A vast majority of Democrat superdelegates interviewed do not support Sanders, and they are willing to risk alienating his supporters by naming someone else — almost anyone else...

Former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, who oversaw the state Department of Education, sounds the alarm about what is happening in public schools across...

Democracy in Bolivia did not die in darkness, it died to the applause of the Washington Post. The post Months After Supporting a Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia’s Elections Were...

MintPress News recently spoke to Sam Husseini about how the media promotes militaristic and even xenophobic approaches to foreign policy during the primary debates. The post...

The moral hazard of the United Kingdom casually breaching the Political Declaration(tags:politics uk europe trade )Rough sleeping up 141% since Conservatives took power despite...

Digging under the hood of the EU negotiating mandate for the future UK partnership agreement.(tags:UK Europe trade )Payments to English farmers to drop by up to 25%(tags:farming...

Scientists have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice by using copper-based nanoparticles and immunotherapy.  Importantly, the cancer did not return...

Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.

I just reread the blog I wrote last night and realized I didn’t actually write about the one thing I intended to write about, which was not the poetry reading but some cool wall art I...

Just got back from one of my regular poetry readings and it was a lot of fun, largely because it was also a birthday party complete with a very chocolatey, almost fudgey birthday cake...

Just clustering a few bits here this morning, from the past few days’ world watching and trying to gain traction on my own inefficiencies and perplexities. As a biology watcher...

Replenish as you deplete: that has been the Rule of the Woodpile since we moved to Goose Creek in 1999 and spent our first winter in Y2K. Until maybe eight years ago, this meant extraordinary...