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Category Archives: Science
A Poem for Pluto Day
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth’s. – Alan Stern, American planetary scientist On February 18, 1930, the planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy/Astrophysics, Poetry
Tagged Alan Stern, Clyde Tombaugh, Maggie Dietz, Pluto, Venetia Burney
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National distractions: Does draconian democracy deconstruct the administrative state
By ann summers Like Caliguila’s horse, Draco (not the Harry Potter one) ordered death penalties for cabbage theft, but had no cure for a leader who also had the mind of one. The Trump Cabinet continues to surprise us with … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Capitalism, Celebrity, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, Government, Government Propaganda, History, information Technology, Internet, Libertarians, Socialism, Society, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Media, Politics
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disinformation as misinformation and malinformation also involves framing
By ann summers Excellent Mother Jones article on disinformation that offers an opportunity to remind us that the interpretive tools are there, but they get misused or disused. Disinformation is false information that is deliberately created with the intent to … Continue reading
Nuclear Power, Japan, and Korea
By Terry Welshans By the mid-1930s most nations with an interest in such things, were trying to understand how nuclear energy worked. Physicists in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, England, and the United States were writing and reading scientific papers on … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Communism, History, Imperialism, Japan, North Korea, Science, South Korea, United States, World War II
Tagged korea, Nuclear Energy, World War II
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Will Cohen suck on Trump’s Lemon, or does Helsinki meet mean that 45* must talk to his boss first
By ann summers The week begins with network interviews of Michael Cohen as he hectors Trump to pay his legal tab (or at least task Kushner to find a Qatari willing to forgo that new stable of Lambos or a Russian … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Courts, DOJ, FBI, Government, History, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Russia, Science, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, game theory, Law, Media, michael Cohen, Politics, trumprussia
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A Poem for World Turtle Day
by Mary Oliver: The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Poetry
Tagged Endangered Species, Mary Oliver, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Turtle, World Turtle Day
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TCS: All Things Being Equal – NOT
Good Morning! ____________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Short Video, The Coffee Shop
Tagged All Things Being Equal - NOT, Douglas Adams, Equilux, Live Long and Prosper, PBS, TCS, The Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
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TCS: What We Can Learn From This Sweet Relationship
Good Morning! ________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, The Coffee Shop
Tagged African Honeyguide, Honey, Mozambique, Mutualism, National Geographic, TCS, Yao People
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Professional sports have been defined by its media, pay its participants and let students remain so.
By ann summers Brackets and rankings help set betting odds, and should those revenues get taxed also to benefit the participants besides the bettors. But in terms of the collegiate sports industry, it shouldn’t be about pie-slicing envy, … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Corruption, Labor Movement, Media, Politics, Society, Sociology, Sports, Television, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Tagged Media, NCAA, Sports
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