Category Archives: Science

TCS: What is the Most Annoying Sound on Earth?

Posted on August 20, 2018 by

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disinformation as misinformation and malinformation also involves framing

Posted on August 12, 2018 by

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 →

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Nuclear Power, Japan, and Korea

Posted on July 6, 2018 by

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 →

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Will Cohen suck on Trump’s Lemon, or does Helsinki meet mean that 45* must talk to his boss first

Posted on July 2, 2018 by

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 →

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A Poem for World Turtle Day

Posted on May 23, 2018 by

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 →

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TCS: All Things Being Equal – NOT

Posted on March 26, 2018 by

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TCS: What We Can Learn From This Sweet Relationship

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

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