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The Unrecognized War – A Call to Arms
by Nona Blyth Cloud “Your breath first kindled the dead coal of warsand brought in matter that should feed this fire;and now ’tis far too huge to be blown out withthat same weak wind which enkindled it.” William Shakespeare – … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis, Denialism
Tagged Global War, Planet Earth, The Unrecognized War – A Call to Arms
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Greta Thunberg and Climate Change
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor Mother Earth joins humanity to lament and weep Together, wail and sob, crying out from the deep Reverse our course, lest life, in all forms Be damned, to eternal, lifeless, sleep. – Irene Fowler Whatever your … Continue reading
In Honor of World Lizard Day
August 14th is World Lizard Day, so I am reposting this report on the Gila Monster: GILA MONSTER: His Myth is Worse than His Bite “I have never been called to attend a case of Gila monster bite, and I … Continue reading
Two Views of the Celestial Spheres
This engraving by an unknown artist is called Empedocles Breaks through the Crystal Spheres. It first appeared in 1888 in a book by Camille Flammarion with the caption: “A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Science
Tagged George Santayana, Nicolaus Copernicus, Two Views of the Celestial Spheres
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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
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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