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The famously doomed wreck of the HMS Erebus has produced some rare personal artifacts centuries later. In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out on a mission from Greenhithe, England to find...

On the beach in Plougastel-Daoulas in Brittany, France lies a three-foot tall boulder carved with an inscription in an unknown language.  It sits in a cove near Illien ar Gwenn, and...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, March 5, 2020 Dow Falls 970 as Trump Bubble Keeps Deflating; Demand for Fed’s Repo Cash...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Ignoring Urgent Threat of Fascist Dictatorship, Sanders Wants a Referendum...

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...

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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...

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...

Teresa Hanafin writes Fast Forward for the Boston Globe. She writes: Trump has canceled his planned trip to the CDC today, and I figured it was because the researchers there didn’t...

Clark Durant, a former member of Congress, started a network of private religious schools called Cornerstone in 1991. In 2009, he changed them to charter schools so they could get...

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   John Curtin, Executive Director at the Environment Agency, gleefully posted this on Twitter last week. It was intended to persuade us that there is a “climate...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Patsy Lacey  As I commented a week or two ago, the Somerset levels have escaped flooding this winter, despite well above average rainfall last month. The Mail...

The last two summers in Germany (2018 and 2019) were unusually dry and warm, and already alarmists began to screaming that this was just a preview of what’s in store for Europe’s...

In yet another new paper (Drotos et al., 2020), scientists determine the climate sensitivity to CO2 is “practically zero” the more the concentration rises. A ~4450 ppm CO2 concentration...

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reforms That Are Persistent and Admired but Marginal (Part 3) Who am I quoting here? Hint: Quotes come from person born...

Cloaking Inequity: The Total Neoliberal Misrepresentation of the Recent History of Indianapolis K12 Education (Guest Post by Jim Scheurich) Is a total neoliberal misrepresentation...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review By the early 21st century, cosmopolitans were gushing that high-tech, instant communications, transnational agencies and agreements...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure was detrimental to the United States, but like most of his nonbelievers, I harbor no animosity for his...

Process this: The dance of death and destruction unleashed in northeast Delhi last week has claimed 47 lives. More than 300 people have been injured and at least 122 houses, 322 shops...

Shelves of ready noodles in Singapore were left empty after fear led people to panic buy. kandl/Shutterstock Andy J. Yap, INSEAD The UK has found itself in a panic buying frenzy in response...

Here is a new paper by Giovanni Peri and Zachariah Rutledge Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent...

1. Who are the Masters of Their Domains? 2. Austan Goolsbee on the vulnerability of the U.S. economy to coronavirus: so many face-to-face services (NYT). 3. “During the reign of...

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...

Why can’t Joe Biden be trusted? The answer is easily found. Consider his position on abortion, which is totally contrary to the faith he professes.

But if earlier reports of the demise of Joe Biden were premature, so, too, are today's confident predictions of a Biden sweep this November, marching over the political corpse of Trump...

As Naomi Klein laid out in her bestseller "Shock Doctrine," the wealthy elite use the confusion caused by economic and other disasters to quickly force through pro-free-market legislation...

Putin and Erdoğan met in Moscow in a last-ditch effort to strike a deal over the escalating violence in Idlib, Syria. Steven Sahiounie weighs in on who prevailed and what likely comes...

Nine out of 10 people found to be biased against women. One third believe husbands should be allowed to beat their wives(tags:sexism OhForFucksSake )On children and horror, and how...

What's so great about Elizabeth Warren?(tags:politics USA economics democrats )Coronavirus means that new Bond movie is delayed until November(tags:JamesBond movies disease...

I’m certainly glad she’s gone, and I’m not exactly holding my breath waiting for her to endorse Bernie. I would be very happy if she did, and it would be one way of hanging on to her...

Well, there’s no doubt about it, we did way worse than expected. I’m not sure if it was all the endorsements, the unquestioning MSM, the low turnout of the youth, or the closures...

How do two occasional grandparents make their first and maybe only week with their 8 yr old grandson memorable, beneficial and fun?

Floyd County, Virginia, historic farmhouse on 80 acres with two creeks: for sale