New in The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have submitted the following comment to a post about the "global
warming pause" on Dr. Roy Spencer's site (the link may not work, if Dr.
Spencer did not allow it to appear): "...when the next big warm El Nino
occurs, the zero trend will end. And that’s exactly what happened, with
the 2015-16 El Nino. A trend is very sensitive to what happens at the
end of a time series, and a big (natural) warm
I have submitted the following comment, on the American Thinker site,
in answer to another commenter who took me to task for my claim that the
idea of "survival of the fittest" is a dead-end, false dogma for
mankind: Every tyrant, so long as he is on top, can claim to be the
"fittest". It is also known as "might makes right". Except the tyrant,
even if he dies of old age, is NOT the fittest in th
I have made two comments to an American Thinker article, "The Left's
Vicious Intolerance In Science". I'll just say here that arguing about
science is not science. I am a scientist, by the way--in fact, THE
scientist, who has made the greatest discovery in history--directly
impacting every field of human inquiry--which few in our time, on either
the Left or the Right--or the middle, for that matt
New in The Ergosphere
Some
wag once wrote to the effect of "Never argue with an idiot; people may
not be able to tell which is which." On the other hand, if nobody
bothers to school idiots publicly the public may begin to take their
nonsense seriously. And on that note.... Over at The Energy Collective a
clown calling himself Joe Deely says that the exercise of analyzing
California's daily load and generation
I
went through their website. (I had it on my personal blog list for a
while.) When I came across things that bothered me, I dug for contact
information... and THERE ISN'T ANY. These people neither expect nor want
feedback. Not even on their site design (why the HELL wouldn't they put
timestamps on their main-page items, so you can see what's new and
what's not?). If they refuse to interact
New in The High-fat Hep C Diet
It's a commonly discussed paradox of sorts - how can fruit have a
negative association with diabetes in epidemiology when it's full of
sugar? Two recent papers from China go some way towards clearing this up
in my opinion. One is a prospective study of Type 2 Diabetes risk, in
which a difference is seen between different classes of fruit; apples
are good, tropical fruits - pineapples, mangos, and
Here's a comment I put on Malcolm Kendrick's post about the "statin
side effects minimal" Lancet paper. For what it's worth, there's
evidence that lipid lowering is effective in secondary prevention of
CVD, but only in people with lipid markers associated with
hyperinsulinaemia. This is an easy syndrome to correct without drugs. In
people without hyperinsulinaemia (shown by high HDL level and low
Austin Bradford Hill was, as should be well known, the father of modern
epidemiology, who played a key role in determining a causal
relationship between smoking and lung cancer. His 9 criteria (or
viewpoints, as he called them) for evaluating epidemiological evidence
were only ever a suggestion, and intended to have adaptable
interpretations strongly guided by logic and good sense in any given co
Another
in the ever-popular genre of blog posts about what people eat. No
photos though. I wake up and have an instant coffee with cream and 1/4
spoonful of dark brown sugar. Maybe I'll have another before breakfast.
If I'm out I'll have a long black with cream without sugar, followed by a
glass of cold water. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,
because it decides if and what you'll b
New in the original Blogger Tips and Tricks
The
very first step of starting a blog is a decision on which blogging
platform or software to use for the blog. The choices are plenty, as you
can see from the list at Wikipedia: Blog software , but we will first
concentrate on the 2 most popular free ones - Blogger.com and
Wordpress.com , both of which are hosted for free, and Wordpress.org of
which the software is free and open source but you w
Blogger
has been changing things around in the Settings. What used to be
Templates they now call it Theme so if you are looking for Template in
Blogger settings Templates, you will be asking where is Templates to
change template, you will be highly disappointed. Not only Tenplates.
Blogger has also put the tab/link to DELETE BLOG . It used to be that to
delete blog, we sign into www.blogger.com >
New in The Straight Goods
BC's hottest political talk.....Blogtalk radio featuring Canadian Glen
and yours truly... First 50 minutes Glen discusses Nova Scotia's
provincial election, they go to the polls on May 28th....the remaining
1:05 minutes is BC's Hottest political talk....Green/NDP merger, or
possible coalition and just how many knives are firmly stuck in Christy
Clark's back..... http://d1at8ppinvdju8.cloudfront.n
Written by Grant G What a politically delicious paradoxical box we find
ourselves in, paralyzed waiting, wondering who will boldly lead us to
the promised land... A minority government in the waiting, that is if
one can charm the illustrious Green leader Andrew Weaver, an invigorated
club wielding leader, holding keys to the castle, keys that can be
acquired if the price is right. I remember the
Written by Grant G I remember when British Columbia owned a profitable
rail line, thousands of miles track, we owned right-aways, rolling
stock, we owned a profitable freight and cargo rail company.....BC Rail
In 1996, in our 1996 B.C. Provincial Election BC Liberal Leader Gordon
Campbell went up against upstart businessman and NDP leader Glen
Clark....NDP versus Liberal...Gordon Campbell versus
Written by Grant G I ha ve never for the Green Party but can admit that
many of their goals are laudable, essential, vitol to preserving life
on a finite planet... I read an article in the Financial Post, it was
titled... "Dear British Columbians, what were you thinking? NPD
Influenced Provinces are Where The Economy Goes To Die" Article was
written by American Diane Francis http://business.finan
Written by Grant G 1) Are you prepared to let Site C dam project on the
Peace River plow forward with no BCUC review, with no sound business
case? 2) Kindr Morgan tripling their pipeline capacity and a 7 fold
increase in bitumen laden tankers on the coast...Clark wants
it....Horgan and NDP like you Andrew Weaver are opposed ... 3)
Proportional representation ....NDP is willing to hold referendum.
Written By Grant G Thursday and Friday, May 5th and May 6th.....On May
5th/2017 the Globe and Mail endorsed Christy Clark and her BC Liberal
gang for reelection ...on May 6th our beleaguered Vancouver Sun followed
suit with an endorsement for Christy Clark . Globe and Mail endorsement
came with a provision, " hold your nose and vote Liberal " before I
pass comment on the Globe n Mail endorsement
New in thwap's schoolyard
Recently, hysterical Liberal Party hack Montreal Simon had been
swooning about attacks against Liberal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
Apparently Sajjan wilfully overstated his role in the planning of one of
the Canadian Forces' biggest operations; "Operation Medusa." Now, some
political columnists who I tend to respect (and you can check this blog
and find out that I do respect several of them)
Bob Cesca thought he was going to make a clever point about the
"extremes" of the right and the left in the US of A. He talks about how
both serial sexual predator Bill O'Reilly, and generally decent liberal
sap John Oliver, both paint a harsh picture of Barack Obama : On one
hand, there was Bill O'Reilly who continued to push for a stronger
response to Islamic jihad. Not only should the presiden
Last time I talked about the weakness of Trump's opponents among the
Republicans. Today I'll talk about the weakness of his rival from the
Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton. Yes, yes. Hillary won the popular
vote. But that doesn't decide US presidential elections. Hillary knew
that. By the rules of the game she agreed to play, she lost. She lost to
a widely unpopular, appalling, narcissistic igno
Yesterday I wrote about some of the reasons why Donald Trump was
popular among a certain segment of the US-American population. (And
having met Canadian Trump supporters personally, I can attest to this
not being a specifically US-American phenomenon.) These people are
ignorant. Ignorant of Trump's sleazy con-man past. Ignorant of the true
nature of their country's (and the world') political-econ
It's the joke of the galaxy, if not the universe! There's a planet
halfway outside one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, where
intelligent life arose. The turn of events made it so that the USA
became the greatest power of all the competing groups of the human life
form. Its culture was the dominant culture. If humanity was to become
united, one species, self-governing, the USA would have been
New in Vagabond Scholar
April
is National Poetry Month, so I'd be remiss if I didn't feature at least
one poem. This year, I'm going with one by Billy Collins, who I've
featured before. I've attended one of his readings, and his knack for
vivid imagery combined with wit makes him especially fun to hear live.
Here's video of him reading "Litany" and giving some context for it: The
poem itself: Litany By Billy
New in Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)
First
off, in self defense, seriously consider this: Truth Has Become
Un-American That peace with Russia and China would undermine the
justification of the $1,000 billion military/security budget, and that
the military/security complex is the American government, is too much
truth for most writers to state. Truth is the most rare element in the
Western world, and we will not be permitted to
Bullshit
works. And I'm quoting Fareed Zakaria (believe it or not): They're
calling it "impeachment watch," but it seems more like bare-knuckled
intimidation. Trump Threatens Comey With Secretly Recorded “Tapes” of
Their Conversations Trump’s attempt to intimidate Comey appeared to be
in response to reports from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News that
the former director had let it
Damn
it. "Billions" is over. Damn. It. Just catching up after the furor.
Wanker of the Day - Rep. Chris Collins of Upstate New York wins today's
all-pro wanking award. What kind of prize should he get? Discuss. Total
of 4.2Mln of French Voters Cast Empty Ballots - Millions of
New in What Is Sustainable
Humankind is confronted with an enormous and perplexing riddle. We’ve
developed a way of life that is ecologically super-idiotic (but look at
our awesome phones!), and pounding the vitality of the natural world
(and soon we’ll have self-driving cars!). The great riddle is how did we
get into this mess? Can we get out of it? Who are we? Where did we come
from? Many books reveal important clues. Bo
When I hear the word “hunter,” I immediately conjure an image of a man
with a gun. Other images follow — bows and arrows, mounted hunters,
cavemen with spears, and so on. Hunters of the Recent Past provided me
with much new information on how the ancestors lived, prior to horses,
guns, and other industrial gizmos. The book is a collection of 19
scholarly papers that describe modes of low-tech com
For at least four million years, our ancestors have been bipedal, they
moved around on two legs. This ability evolved on the African savannah,
tropical grassland. Being upright exposed less of their bodies to hot
sunbeams, and their bushy head hair provided extra protection. Their
nearly furless bodies, combined with three million sweat glands, allowed
them to shed body heat better than other sav
New in wmtc
At the beach! Diego's favourite place. What kind of dog is that? People
ask this all the time. All our dogs have been rescues, but most had
recognizable breed markers. We could answer "white Shepherd-Husky cross"
or "Lab-Shepherd mix" or "Jack Russell-Fox Terrier cross". Of course
those dogs probably had many other breeds in the mix. When you think
about it, unless a dog is actually the product o
My
book list is extremely long, so long that I don't call it a reading
list or a to-read list, because I will never read even half the books on
the List. It's more like books I would read. A list to narrow down the
universe of books to a smaller universe of books to choose from. Working
in a library has increased this likelihood that I won't read even a
majority of these books -- or decreased the
When I first heard the incarceration of African Americans in the United
States referred to as a "new Jim Crow," I thought it must be hyperbole.
So did Michelle Alexander, a fact she discloses in the introduction to
her book. As Alexander researched the concept, the more she learned, the
more she changed her mind. She changed my mind, too. In The New Jim
Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colo
The year is 1917. A teenage girl from a wealthy family is pregnant, the
result of rape -- by a man who her mother pushed her to pursue for
marriage. Now the girl is being forced to surrender her baby to an
orphanage. She has met the person who runs the orphanage, and she cannot
bear the thought. The girl devices a plan, a way she can leave her
infant daughter to be found by a large family who wil
I read this on Facebook and absolutely love it. The author, Arun Gupta,
understands and acknowledges cultural appropriation as a fact and a
legitimate concern (as do I). But he also believes the "reactionary
left" spreading lists of ethnic restaurants run by white people
...essentializes the notion of culture as rooted in the very soil of a
place and not something that can travel or transcend bou
Many
people have been discussing my recent post about cultural appropriation
on Facebook. I'm not surprised that many people disagree (that's why I
wrote it, to put my countering opinion out there), but I have been
surprised by how many progressive people do agree. From the negative
comments, I can see that I wasn't clear on a few important points. 1.
The entire post refers to white , first-world
New in WWF - Latest News
TAORMINA, Italy (27 May, 2017 ) – Six of the world's largest economies
today reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement and its continued
implementation at a meeting of the G7 in Taormina, Sicily. The meeting
was attended by heads of all G7 member nations, and ends today. While
the leaders reached consensus on the need to harness economy
opportunities and job creation offered by the clean e
ROME, Italy (25 May, 2017 ) – Leaders of the world's seven big
economies must show the way on climate action by fulfilling the
commitments they made in the Paris Agreement, and then doing more.
Commenting on the upcoming meeting of the Group of 7 (G7) in Sicily,
WWF's global Climate & Energy Practice leader Manuel Pulgar-Vidal ,
said it was incumbent on the G7 members to accelerate decarbonisatio
WASHINGTON, D.C. (24, May 2017 - 8:00am ET) – Worldwide, flood risk
will continue to rise as cities grow larger and rainstorms become more
intense, making conventional engineering insufficient as the sole
approach to flood management. " Natural and Nature-Based Flood
Management: A Green Guide " released today by WWF, introduces an
integrated framework for flood management, drawing on policy, gree
Bratislava, 22 May 2017 – On International Biodiversity Day and days
after UNESCO expressed concern regarding the future of the Primeval
Beech Forests of the Carpathians in Slovakia, WWF urges the Slovak
government to take action to secure the country's world heritage. The
UNESCO World Heritage Committee's draft decision , published last
Friday, highlighted that the Slovak part of the transbounda
Bonn (18 May 2017) – Climate negotiators have kept their focus on the
implementation of the Paris Agreement at the mid-year round of UN
climate talks in Bonn ending today, setting the course for a substantive
outcome at COP23. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, leader of WWF's global Climate
& Energy Practice said it was encouraging to see that discussions in
Bonn were not around whether or not the Paris Agree
Manado, Indonesia: Indonesian environmental youth champion, Adeline
Tiffanie Suwana and the Indian wildlife and environment cartoonist Rohan
Chakravarty have won this year's WWF International President's Award
for their efforts to inspire change and attitudes towards nature. The
award is the global conservation organization's top accolade to
recognize outstanding leadership in young conservationi
New in A Very Public Sociologist
It's hard to feel sorry for Theresa May. So hard even a big old softie
like me can't manage it. She might presently enjoy double-digit leads in
some polls, but the campaign is not going to plan. To think, it could
have been very simple. It should have been very simple. With a huge lead
in the polls all May had to do was be very boring and robotic - an
effortless task - and carry on Brexiting this
It's a truism that the worst in humanity brings out the best in
humanity. Yet amid the solidarity and support shown folks caught up in
last night's suicide attack in Manchester, there were those for whom
another concern came to mind: themselves. It takes a real decency bypass
to think about how the murder of 22 people can raise one's profile, or
score petty points, but the laws of probability ind
Police numbers are falling. In England and Wales between March 2015 and
March 2016 ( the most recent government figures ), "frontline"
positions shrank from 110,853 to 106,411. Recruitment was down and the
number of dismissals and resignations were up, continuing a five-year
trend. It has also been widely acknowledged, not least by the Prime
Minister herself, that her decision to deploy troops to
Another night, another poll. The latest for The Telegraph puts the
Tories on 44% and Labour on 38%. A gap of six points, which follows last
week's YouGov effort reporting a five per cent gap. I'm trying not to
hope, so that excitable little beastie is getting packed away as we look
at what's going on at the bottom of the polling. There's still no sign
of the LibDem revival , and as we've talked a
In the red corner is Skwawkbox, the pro-Corbyn site that has carved out
a market for itself providing the inside track from among the Corbynist
left in the Labour Party. And in the black corner of deepest reaction
lives Guido, the establishment's "anti-establishment" site and their
preferred go-to for Westminster gossip. Bearing in mind the lies and
smears Paul Staines and retinue have indulged a
There's a headline. It's from the BBC, written by no less a figure than
the corporation's chief political editor. Not something up to the
standards expected, you might say. As readers know, I tend not to moan
much about the recipient of the licence fee. As a general rule, its news
coverage is much better than most and where it fails in impartiality,
it can make up in balance - particularly with r
New in Adrienne's Corner
apparently so. Ouchies from gardening? After four plus hours of digging
in the garden yesterday, my right shoulder was screaming, "Enough!" I
remembered to haul out my Salonpas Jet Spray. This stuff works like
magic. I've tried their gel, but the spray works best of all and relief
is almost instant. If they don't have it at your local drug store or
Walmart, Amazon has it on sale right now. Rememb
let's send out our thoughts and prayers, wring our hands while tears
trickle down our pale and sunken cheeks, light a candle, fling about
some flowers, and ponder the motives of the muslim bomber. The white
Europeans have been sold out by the people they elected - and so have
we. Your political leaders, and the SJW's who roam among us, welcomed
these heathens into the countries of Europe, Scandin
since it's a holiday weekend and my veggie garden will be complete by
the end of today, lets just look at pics of Melania. The tomatoes,
peppers, and strawberries are happily ensconced in their new homes.
Today we plant the Roma beans, zucchini (why?), two different yellow
squash, cucumbers, and sunflowers.
"You're dealing with desperation on the left." And nothing points more
to this desperation than this screed I stumbled upon at the Huffington
Post by Michelangelo Signorile, the editor-at-large of Queer Voices, To
Save America We Must Stop Being Polite And Immediately Start Raising
Hell. You could almost stop reading at that over wrought title because I
can't recall a gaggle of libtards ever bein
although he'll probably be safer on his trip then putting up with the
MSM spewing biased hate filled fake news. Trump's Trip The venal lefty
press are soooooooo worried that Trump will make hash of his trip and do
something to embarrass the U.S. and himself. Are you kidding me? After
Odumbo jetting around the world, bowing to foreign leaders, and making a
complete jerk of himself, we're supposed
New in ArmsControlWonk
Long
time reader, first time Wonker. My thanks to the Wonk-Supreme for
allowing me to contribute. The president of the negotiations for a
nuclear weapons ban convention has just released her first draft of the
proposed treaty. As will become readily apparent, I am not an expert on
international law, but I am a keenly-interested …
Malaysian-North
Korean relations have been imploding since the assassination of Kim
Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur Airport, and the subsequent revelations that
North Korea has been doing a whole lot of other shady things on
Malaysian soil. If you haven’t already, read my colleague Dan
Salisbury’s post about possible North Korean-Malaysian submarine
building. Some of …
Quote
of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to
prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll show you a Secretary of Defense who
ought to be impeached.” —Caspar Weinberger, New York Times, August 24,
1982 In an influential article, “Atoms, Strategy and Policy,” published
in the January 1956 issue …
This
is a guest post by BASIC Project Leader Sebastian Brixey-Williams. The
legal implications of the nuclear ban: separating fact from fiction The
nuclear ban treaty’s draft text is out, and the arms control community
is beavering away trying to understand what it all means. I observed the
first round of UN negotiations in March, …
North
Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are the topic du jour in the WMD
world, but if you’re trying to get smart about the subject, where should
you turn? The amount of material never gets any smaller, and you’ve
nearly got to be an expert in your own right to judge what’s what. I
won’t try to catalogue and …
This
is a guest post by CNS Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Salisbury. The
assassination in February of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam at
Kuala Lumpur airport has turned international attention to North Korea’s
other shady activities in Malaysia. A Reuters investigation has already
revealed that a North Korean company has been marketing military radios
…
UK..... PoliticsHome Verified account @politicshome 9m 9 minutes ago
Iain Duncan Smith hits back at George Osborne over net migration target
criticism http:// bit.ly/2r9o2fg PoliticsHome Verified account
@politicshome 13m 13 minutes ago ‘Enough is enough’: Theresa May lays
out vision for anti-extremism taskforce http:// bit.ly/2qr8H8E
PoliticsHome Verified account @politicshome 22m 22 minut
Economic
News , Data & Views.....May 27 , 2017.....Quick Hits For Saturday
-1 ) US Political Round Up : Jared Kushner In Focus Today After Back
Channel Communication Proposal To Russian Ambassador Becomes Known ;
Trump Tweets For Saturday ; NATO & G-7 Related Items ; Climate
Accord Decision From Trump Next Week ; Additional Items Of Interest. 2)
Libya : Clashes In Tripoli Resume For Second Day Of Fighting In Tripoli ,
Egypt Continues Airstrikes On Targets Inside Libya For A Second Day ,
Additional Items Of Note. 3) Markets : Doug Noland Missive & Weekly
Report ; Global Overviews & Key News To Consider. 4) Europe In Focus
: Greece News For Saturday ; UK Political Round Up ; Germany Political
News & Local News ; France Political Updates & Local News. 5)
Odds & Ends For Saturday !
US Political Round Up.... fred walton @fredwalton216 13s 14 seconds
ago fred walton Retweeted Jennifer Jacobs View of Trump from Prime
Minister of Italy.... fred walton added, Jennifer Jacobs Verified
account @JenniferJJacobs What was Trump like? Italy's prime minister:
"Willing to interact, he was curious, was willing to learn from others."
per @Alemrome Jennifer Jacobs Verified account @Jen
Markets.... US..... ForexLive @ForexLive 7m 7 minutes ago Guess what?
Nasdaq and S&P close at a record levels ForexLive @ForexLive 2h 2
hours ago Technical analysis: Gold ending the week with a solid gain.
LiveSquawk @LiveSquawk 2h 2 hours ago WTI Futures Settle At
$49.80/Bbl, Up $0.90 #OOTT $CL_F ForexLive @ForexLive 3h 3 hours ago
Baker Hughes US oil rig count 722 vs 720 prior zerohedge
Markets.... Asia.... ForexLive @ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago Economic
data due from Asia today - Japanese inflation data (+Fed & BoC)
ForexLive @ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago Its inflation day in Japan (ummm,
no, not a holiday, the data for CPI) US.... fred walton @fredwalton216
2h 2 hours ago fred walton Retweeted zerohedge Another day around the
way.. fred walton added, zerohedge @zerohedge Stocks
Nato..... The Associated Press Verified account @AP 1h 1 hour ago RAW
VIDEO: Trump arrives at European Union headquarters for NATO meeting .
Valentina Pop Verified account @valentinapop 12m 12 minutes ago
Valentina Pop Retweeted Donald Tusk Tusk says no common position with
@realDonaldTrump on Russia Valentina Pop added, Donald Tusk Verified
account @eucopresident My message to @POTUS : Value
Economic
News , Data & Views....May 24 , 2017.....Quick Hits Fro Wednesday
-1) Markets : Asia - Economic Calendar For Thursday , Market Moving Data
& News As Available; US - US Stock Indexes , Gold , US Treasuries
All Catch A Bid After FOMC Meeting Minutes , FOMC Minutes Major Driver
For Dow / S&P / Nasdaq All Green For the Day & Treasury Yields
Lower , US Crude Finishes Modestly Lower On The Day. 2) US Politics :
SoS Tillerson On AF-1 Today Discusses NATO & G-7 Meetings Subjects -
Russia / Ukraine /Expectations Of Trump Regarding NATO / Trade
Agreements / Afghanistan / Paris Climate Deal ; POTUS Meets Pope ,
Onward To NATO Meeting Thursday & G-7 On Friday ; AHCA Act Updates -
CBO Scores House Bill ; Swampland News For Wednesday ; FBI Director
Items ( Past And Yet To Come ) Items. 3) Philippines - Marawi Siege
Continues The Day after President Duterte Declares Martial Law In Parts
Of Philippines. 4) Brazil - Instability Worsens As Protesters Seize And
Set Fire To Government Buildings…
Markets..... Asia.... ForexLive @ForexLive 50m 50 minutes ago
Economic data due from Asia today - and PLENTY of central bank speak
ForexLive @ForexLive 56m 56 minutes ago New Zealand budget day -
preview US Markets.... ForexLive @ForexLive 1h 1 hour ago Forexlive
Americas FX news wrap: Dollar lower after FOMC meeting minutes ForexLive
@ForexLive 2h 2 hours ago Treasury secretary Mnuchin.
New in Centauri Dreams
When Greg Matloff’s “Solar Sail Starships: Clipper Ships of the Galaxy”
appeared in JBIS in 1981, the science fictional treatments of
interstellar sails I had been reading suddenly took on scientific
plausibility. Later, I would read Robert Forward’s work, and realize
that an interstellar community was growing in space agencies,
universities and the pages of journals. Since those days, Matloff’s
What happens when giant objects collide? We know the result will be
catastrophic, as when we consider the possibility that the Moon was
formed by a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object in the
early days of the Solar System. But Sarah Stewart (UC-Davis) and Simon
Lock (a graduate student at Harvard University) have produced a
different possible outcome. Perhaps an impact between two
Have a look at the design of the Psyche spacecraft now being built by
Space Systems Loral in Palo Alto. What’s intriguing here is the
five-panel x-shaped design of the solar array, reconfigured from a
four-panel array on either side of the spacecraft. The juiced up array
offers this asteroid-bound spacecraft higher power capabilities for its
solar electric propulsion system, helping to support th
One of the worst things we can do is to get so wedded to a concept that
we fail to see conflicting information. That’s true whether the people
involved are scientists, or stock brokers, or writers. It’s all too easy
to distort the surrounding facts because we want to get a particular
result, a process that is often subtle enough that we don’t notice it.
Thus I was interested in what Rodrigo Luger
NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Tau Zero Foundation for a
3-year study titled “Interstellar Propulsion Review.” Unlike prior
studies, which were based on a specific mission concept, this study is
an overall comparison between the different motivations, challenges, and
approaches to interstellar flight. The work is split into three major
1-year phases: 1. Create an interstellar work break
Richard Trevithick’s name may not be widely known today, but he was an
important figure in the history of transportation. A mining engineer
from Cornwall, Trevithick (1771-1833) built the first high pressure
steam engine, and was able to put it to work on a railway known as the
Penydarren because it moved along the tramway of the Penydarren
Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, running 14 kilomete
New in Craig Murray
This article was published on the Sun’s website at 2.50am, that is
hours after the Manchester bombing. It was updated at 09.50am, long
after the decision to suspend electioneering. I am not going to link to
the article, but the comments below it from the public are unanimous. I
pray that the vile people at the Sun have miscalculated, and in future
the Sun will be as welcome in Manchester as in Li
The news from Manchester continues to horrify as each individual
tragedy gets confirmed in all its heart-rending detail. In my two posts
in the immediate aftermath of the Manchester bombing, I concluded: If it
was a home made bomb, it was a remarkably powerful one. It would be
very unusual for a lone terrorist to be able to make a bomb this
powerful. It is hard to think of any incident where an i
Here is a vivid illustration of how Theresa May crippled the Police
during her seven years as Home Secretary. The figures and charts are
from an official parliamentary document . I have merely added the wobbly
red lines to indicate when Theresa May became Home Secretary. It is
extremely plain what she did to the police. Red Line = Theresa May
Becomes Homes Secretary Red Line = Theresa May Becomes
A brief extract from my memoir The Catholic Orangemen of Togo On the
other side of the equation, Roger Moore came out as a goodwill
ambassador for UNICEF. Fiona and I hosted a small dinner party for him.
He was charming and suave, just as you would expect, with a fund of
brilliant stories beginning with lines like “One day Frank, Dean, Tony
and I decided to play a trick on Marilyn…” But while he
Having now seen the numerous bits of video being shown across the
various Breakfast news programmes, Manchester should be very proud of
itself. The audience were quite remarkably orderly leaving the arena. Of
course there was a certain amount of panic, but much less than you
would normally expect in such a situation. The discipline and stoicism
are much more remarkable than the areas of panic, es
I genuinely cannot believe what I have just seen on the BBC national UK
news. A report on the general election in Scotland in advance of
tonight’s Scottish Leaders’ Debate. I know we have become used to the
unfettered Tory bias of the BBC, but this was at a level of propaganda
which has left me seriously disturbed. In the 6 minute piece, four
different BBC presenters told the viewer that the elec
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Who knew? It’s 1976 all over again! Joe Who? … I mean, Andrew Who? I
feel good about this … 1976 was a pretty good year, as I dimly recall.
(You know what they say: If you remember it clearly, you weren’t there.)
On Feb. 22, 1976, after four ballots, members of the Progressive
Conservative […] The post ANDREW WHO? Oh, wait! I grabbed the wrong
picture from the file cabinet! appeared first on Albe
PHOTOS: The question isn’t just whether Alberta’s students are getting
the information they need, but whether media is giving the rest of us
all the facts we require when we read news stories about education
policy. Below: Former Edmonton Public Schools curriculum director Stuart
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Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended May 21, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and
provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION
BESTSELLERS 1. Oil Change at Rath’s Garage – Shari Narine* 2. Paper
Teeth – Lauralyn Chow*+ 3. Gatekeeper […] The post Oil Change at Rath’s
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Christina Gray at yesterday’s technical briefing on the NDP Government’s
new labour legislation. (Photo: CBC) Below: Alberta Premier Rachel
Notley, and Alberta Liberal interim Leader David Swann and Alberta Party
Leader Greg Clark, both of whom supported introduction of the bill
despite opposition on first […] The post Wildros
PHOTOS: Rachel Notley celebrates her victory on the night of May 5,
2015. Below: Ms. Notley again, the same night, still celebrating;
defeated Progressive Conservative Premier Jim Prentice as seen via TV at
NDP headquarters conceding to the NDP; a small corner of the crowd at
NDP election headquarters in Edmonton. Today marks the second […] The
post Re-stating the obvious: elections matter, and t
PHOTOS: Opposition Wildrose Leader Brian Jean and Progressive
Conservative Leader Jason Kenney. Below: A clear-eyed Premier Rachel
Notley, former British Columbia NDP premier Dave Barrett and the late
Jim Prentice, former premier of Alberta. TORONTO “Two years after
Alberta NDP win, critics see signs of early election call,” a headline
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