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Harris meets the Constitution's requirements, but she has not demonstrated the minimum skills needed to serve as commander-in-chief. [...]
As a lifetime tennis fan who long ago saw the teenage Jimmy Connors battle a forty-something Pancho Gonzales and has been a mediocre player myself since roughly age seven, I have been glued to my TV this year watching an enthralling US Open. [...]
Vice President Kamala Harris is desperate to be unburdened by her own past. [...]
The Democratic Party is finally figuring out how to right-size its focus on identity politics. [...]
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/05/shellenberger_democrats_are_running_on_a_russian_hoax_for_a_third_time_another_attempt_to_brainwash_people.html [...]
As democracies grapple with misinformation, Brazil's hardline approach is seen by some as a potential model. The country has taken extreme measures to police online discourse - recently banning X (formerly Twitter) and fining citizens using VPNs to access it. These moves highlight its boldness but also underscore the dangers of empowering the state to treat mistrust as merely a crisis of information. [...]
The Republican Attorney Generals Association is working overtime to install authoritarian AGs across the country. [...]
Expanding funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other leftist groups to rural areas only expands election insecurity. [...]
For six weeks, Kamala Harris' campaign has been running circles around Donald Trump's efforts. Democrats have raised tons of money, energized their base, and protected Harris from unscripted interviews and political risks. All the while, Trump's campaigning has been lackluster. [...]
In 2016 and 2020, pollsters underestimated Donald Trump's support in several key battleground states. [...]
We need to defend America from Chinese spies with diligence and accountability, while avoiding witch hunts. [...]
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious. [...]
JMC's Elliott Drago sat down with JMC Network Scholar George Nash to discuss conservatism, Herbert Hoover, and the American theme of freedom. [...]
William Galston examines Kamala Harris's rise in the polls after replacing Biden, but warns the 2024 race is still uncertain. [...]
The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures ever recorded, beating last year's record and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change. [...]
Bare feet pressed against the rough trunk of a palm tree, his back supported by a metal and fabric harness, Ali Abed begins the climb to the dates above.In Iraq, the date palm and its bounty are national icons, but they are being battered by drought.Once known as the country of "30 million palm trees", Iraq's ancient date-growing culture had already suffered from upheaval, especially during the 1980-88 war with Iran, before climate change became a major threat. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
The recent spike in Turkish attacks comes at an especially critical time as Iraq's Kurdistan Region prepares to hold long-delayed parliamentary elections. [...]
Control of a nearly nine-mile border route in the southern Gaza Strip has emerged as a stumbling block in the talks over a potential cease-fire and hostage agreement. [...]
Control of a nearly nine-mile border route in the southern Gaza Strip has emerged as a stumbling block in the talks over a potential cease-fire and hostage agreement. [...]
Control of a nearly nine-mile border route in the southern Gaza Strip has emerged as a stumbling block in the talks over a potential cease-fire and hostage agreement. [...]
Diplomatic and business traffic is gaining steam between Dubai and Beijing after a first-of-its-kind think-tank forum, a high-level welcome for a Tianjin official to the UAE, and a major deal with ADNOC this week. [...]
Diplomatic and business traffic is gaining steam between Dubai and Beijing after a first-of-its-kind think-tank forum, a high-level welcome for a Tianjin official to the UAE, and a major deal with ADNOC this week. [...]
Diplomatic and business traffic is gaining steam between Dubai and Beijing after a first-of-its-kind think-tank forum, a high-level welcome for a Tianjin official to the UAE, and a major deal with ADNOC this week. [...]
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Fathy Khalifa’s visit came in response to Israel demanding control of the Philadelphi Corridor, said one expert. [...]
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Fathy Khalifa’s visit came in response to Israel demanding control of the Philadelphi Corridor, said one expert. [...]
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Fathy Khalifa’s visit came in response to Israel demanding control of the Philadelphi Corridor, said one expert. [...]
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Fathy Khalifa’s visit came in response to Israel demanding control of the Philadelphi Corridor, said one expert. [...]
Children in Khan Yunis tilted their heads back, mouths open, as they received oral drops during the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, which began on Thursday."I have been vaccinated," five children said proudly one by one, their inked fingers proof of their inoculation against polio.Gaza's health ministry reported the first case of polio in 25 years last month, amid the devastating Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian territory. [...]
The Sino-Libyan pact was announced Wednesday by Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the Libyan Presidency Council Mohamed al-Menfi at the FOCAC summit in Beijing. [...]
The Sino-Libyan pact was announced Wednesday by Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the Libyan Presidency Council Mohamed al-Menfi at the FOCAC summit in Beijing. [...]
Christy Bieber, The Motley Fool The amount you need depends on your retirement goals. [...]
Steve Benen, MSNBC If Kamala Harris is as bad as Republicans claim, why is Donald Trump relying so heavily on made-up nonsense? [...]
Editorial, Issues & Insights There's no evidence that her story about working at McDonald's is true. [...]
Bobby Kogan & Brendan Duke, CAP Federal revenues lag far behind pre-tax cut budget projections. [...]
Hayden Dublois & Michael Greibrok, Fox News Trump passed tax cuts in 2017 and Harris has repeatedly said she'd overturn them. That means her presidency would damage the economy and make [...]
Clifford Winston, RealClearMarkets The strength of markets is their ability to coordinate economic activity efficiently and to stimulate and reward innovations that lead to technological [...]
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have both said that if elected president, they will block Nippon Steel's planned, $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. They're [...]
Bruce Thompson, RCM While Congressional Democrats spent the August recess pushing for higher corporate taxes, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee were at the Iowa State Fair, [...]
Brian Reisinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mental health problems and their most terrifying form – hurting oneself or others – know no boundaries. [...]
Edward Ring, City Journal But delivering the electricity it generates is the next big challenge. [...]
Cliff Asness, AQR Capital Mgmt. This note argues that good higher-volatility alternative investments, that are indeed often very hard to stick with, can be important tools in constructing the [...]
Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute On the 80th anniversary of its publication, The Road to Serfdom continues to serve as a warning to those who would sacrifice liberty for unrealizable political and [...]
Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]
Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]
Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]
Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]
Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]
Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]
Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]
Chances are, if you were to poll every guy who’s even vaguely familiar with the r/mfa Subreddit on the most essential of the menswear essentials (the…essential-ist?), you’d get one of about four answers. A solid pair of white sneakers, a navy blazer that actually fits, a trusted pair of jeans, or, our personal favorite, an […] The post The Best Oxford Shirts for Men, Because What Else Would You Wear? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The occasional chill in the air. The return of the PSL. That’s right, it’s officially fall marathon season. Naturally, the only way to celebrate the changing of the seasons — or a serious uptick in your weekly mileage — is to snag a new pair of cushy trainers, preferably from the mass of killer silos […] The post On’s Last-Season Sale Is Like Cloud Watching, But for Your Feet appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Dr. Frankenstein called forth lightning to bring his monster to life. Brewers call forth yeast. Perhaps more than any other ingredient, the unicellular fungus breathes life into a beer. It also plays a key role in determining the taste on your tongue. Unfortunately, it stays largely behind the scenes, ceding the spotlight — especially on […] The post Beer’s Least Sexy Ingredient May Be Its Most Important appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“Ain’t enough bourbon in Kentucky for me to forget you.” That’s a teary-eyed line from country music superstar Dierks Bentley’s 2013 song “Bourbon in Kentucky,” but the sad sentiment can now be challenged, as Bentley just released his own bourbon (and can probably make enough of it to get over any situation). Called Row 94, […] The post Dierks Bentley’s New Bourbon Could Be a Hit appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When was the last time you saw live music? It doesn’t matter if it was an arena show or an experimental artist in a tiny venue; what matters is that you were there taking it all in. It isn’t all that strange to see less live music as you get older: work and family can […] The post How to Build a Lifelong Relationship With Live Music appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
This article was featured in the InsideHook newsletter. Sign up now. The post Marilyn, Brando, McQueen: Inside the Star-Studded Archives of “Life” appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The first time I walked into Paradise Lost, I knew what I was going to order before I sat down. I’d been anticipating my visit to the tiki bar all week, and the first time I looked at the menu, my eyes zoned in on one drink and one drink only: the Cobra’s Fang. Although […] The post An Ode to the Cobra’s Fang, Tiki’s Most Interesting Cocktail appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Typically, it’s spring and early fall that provide the most horological heat, with Watches & Wonders Geneva offering a slew of new releases in March and April, followed months later by a busy third quarter full of compelling drops. But Geneva Watch Days, a relatively new trade show, now takes place at the end of […] The post The 14 Best Watches of the Past Month appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What do your fall reading plans look like? There’s a lot to be said for beach reads or the doorstoppers you might hole up with during the winter months, but finding the right book for fall is a bit more complicated. For our September recommendations, we’ve offered a wide variety of styles and stories, from […] The post The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This September appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Nearly ten years on from his pro debut, Taylor Fritz is proving that he might just be America’s next great tennis hope after all. The 26-year-old San Diego native is currently playing some of the best tennis of his life, earning a number twelve in the world ranking and an Olympic bronze on the back […] The post American Tennis Star Taylor Fritz Is Ready for Prime Time appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sitting in section E, row 27, seat 5 of the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Friday night, I saw a more diverse range of Minnesotans than I normally see in a month. I’m not talking about racial diversity, as Matchbox Twenty was headlining, and you and I and everyone knows the ‘90s nostalgia act brings […] The post I Found the Antidote to American Polarization at the Minnesota State Fair appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Welcome to InsideCart, your sneak peek into what we, the discerning and ultra-picky editors of InsideHook, are adding to our own shopping carts each month. Consider it your monthly insight into all things cutting-edge (or charmingly vintage) from your favorite cohort of taste-making product freaks. Last month: a high-voltage portable charger from BioLite, state fair-coded […] The post InsideCart: What Our Editors Bought in August appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You haven’t heard? We’re living in a post-sneaker society, dawg. The backlash to sneakerhead oversaturation has been swift and well-documented, and for the average guy who wants to look good but might not have his finger on the beating pulse, finding a warm-weather replacement for his New Balance 550s can be a monumental task. No […] The post The Best Men’s Loafers Are the Answer to Virtually Every Situation appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Welcome to Culture Hound, InsideHook’s deep dive into the month’s most important cultural happenings, pop and otherwise (note: you can find our monthly book guide a little later this week). MOVIES Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in theaters Sept. 6 A whopping 36 years after Tim Burton’s beloved tale of the afterlife first hit theaters, the Ghost with the […] The post The Best Movies, TV and Music for September appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Welcome back to our monthly guide to all things whisk(e)y. Please check out our more in-depth looks at new releases here. This isn’t necessarily a new release (it came out in 2023), but I was surprised to see this after talking with the CEO of Sovereign Brands a few years back, where he noted that […] The post The Best New Whiskeys to Drink This September appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In 2013, a quintet of Copenhagen galleries began organizing the Chart Art Fair, and it’s been an annual event in the city since then. In an article about the show, Vogue Scandinavia highlighted a few aspects of interest, including a book and print fair and a dedicated section of the festival intended for first-time collectors […] The post Sailboats and Architecture Converged at This Copenhagen Art Fair appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
As a father of two in a one-car family, it seems I am doomed to wander the earth behind the wheel of a three-row SUV. I am mostly resigned to my fate as my wife insists we need the extra back seats, even though we use them sporadically (every now and then they are legitimately […] The post Review: Is Volvo’s EX90 the Family EV You’ve Been Waiting For? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There are a growing number of electric vehicles out in the world. There are also a substantial number of bulletproof vehicles out in the world. It’s enough to beg the question: do these two categories overlap at all, or are security-conscious drivers looking to reduce their carbon emissions going to be frustrated for a little […] The post There’s Now a Bulletproof Version of the Lucid Air Sapphire appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The same conditions that create in-demand hot springs can also be used to generate geothermal energy — and that’s appealing to advocates concerned about the importance of sustainable power. That said, there’s been some concern that the two can’t coexist. For example, a 2021 lawsuit filed by theCenter for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, sought […] The post One Japanese Region Is Balancing Hot Springs and Geothermal Power appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Not every Olympic gold medal is won by an athlete who can spark a surge of interest in their sport of choice. There are some athletes and some sports where there’s a pleasure to be taken in simply watching a great athlete attempt something that looks impossible — and succeed in doing so. But there’s […] The post Olympian Toby Roberts Is Sparking Interest in Climbing in the U.K. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Mag An unlikely duo exposed political corruption in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1914—and set a new precedent for fair voting across the country. [...]
Frank Jacobs, Big Think "The Big Map of Who Lived When" shows the lifespans of famous figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan. [...]
Lisa Mullins & Karyn Miller-Medzon, WBUR The book offers a history of the ingredients or a recipe's connection to the Civil Rights Movement — like Zephyr White's pecan pie, which might have [...]
Staff, HistoryMaps Empire of Gold: The Medici Banking System. [...]
Joshua Howard, Time For decades, conservatives like Vance have criticized welfare programs under the guise of defending the nuclear family. [...]
Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine A newly digitized set of records reveal the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North. [...]
Adrian Daub, Time At least since the 1960s, a warped vision of college life has shaped U.S. culture and politics. [...]
Carina Benton, RCH When former President Donald Trump recently voiced his support for more legal immigration at a news [...]
Ross Kemp, Sky History Discover the shocking history of Britain's ties to the Mafia, from Prohibition-era bootlegging to modern-day crime networks still active in the UK today [...]
Russell Heinold, The Historians Magazine There's a story, that in the spring of 1801, there lived a poor seamstress in the city of Bath, England. [...]
Jonny Wilkes, HistoryExtra Mozart has a well-deserved reputation as one of the greatest composers in history, but maybe he should also be remembered as one of the filthiest? [...]
Neil Baum, @medpagetoday Major historical events may have turned out differently without rapid medical responses [...]
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]
Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]
Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]
Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]
Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]
Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]
Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]
I will start this brief post with a disclaimer - I am not a nuclear physicist (rather, I am a lesser being, a sub-nuclear physicist). Jokes aside, my understanding and knowledge of the dynamics of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and the phases of matter that can exist at those very high densities and temperatures is overall quite poor. read more [...]
There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in "Eggonomics" suggests wealthy people looking for specific traits has gotten to the point of being eugenics.read more [...]
The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.So if you are under age 30, get ready to show ID. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.read [...]
One way to groom people into a social authoritarian, centralized government mindset is to keep them in a panic about everything. Then you give everyone a diagnosis and tell them it's not their fault. Using his agencies, President Biden has done a lot to erode confidence in government science and health. He bizarrely tried to use CDC to create nationwide rent control, he got EPA epidemiologists to hijack ponds on family farms under the pretense that they were "navigable waters of the United States", the list goes on.read more [...]
Tom Girardi is one of the lawyers who shot to prominence after they got California utility PG&E to issue a shocking settlement in a case where it was alleged that hexavalent chromium was causing diseases in Hinckley, California.Where were the bodies? They didn't exist, according to science, and history has shown it to be a hoax. There are no more cases of cancer, disease, or anything else. Like President Biden claiming a "cancer alley" in, unsurprisingly, a state that votes Republican, it just exploited the average to get a jury to side against a company.read more [...]
California activists are cheering a new report that claims for 100 days, the state was entirely powered by alternative energy and therefore solar and wind are ready to rule.This is a puzzle when California has America's most expensive electricity costs and people statewide are claiming about a 100% increase in electricity costs over the last 8 years and $500 bills last month.The details tell the three truths that paid activists for the solar and wind industry omit. read more [...]
American automobile companies have been dealing with government regulations for a hundred years so they know to go with the high-publicity political flow and then quietly fix the issues later.(1) During the housing bubble of 2008, Ford went to Congress and agreed car companies absolutely needed a bailout.Then they didn't take it while competitors did, and were suddenly stuck with caving in to government-enabled union demands to have janitors make $50 an hour while Ford stock took off. They didn't have bureaucrats wanting to sign off on every decision the way General Motors did.read more [...]
Progressives are concerned that some US states have adopted abortion cut-off dates equal to those of France, which only raised it to 14 weeks in 2022. CDC shows American births are dropping so low that the Biden administration may need to start subsidizing the pro-life movement.read more [...]
There is now enough of data related to Germany lurching to the anti-science left this decade, both in food and energy, that is is easy to see why other companies should stop making the same mistake.Solar and wind not only don't work, they can't work as long as old technology is subsidized. It prevents better technology from being developed because that is not where the easy government money is.read more [...]
American environmentalists and the solar and wind industries propped up by taxes on poor people love to talk about how much their business has increased.It certainly has. Mandates and subsidies will do that. What those cannot do is make a meaningful difference. The world has spent $4 trillion on solar and wind subsidies and conventional energy usage has only declined about 0.1%. Yet for that same $4 trillion we could've powered enough homes and businesses that climate change would be like Y2K - a conspiracy some claim was never going to happen because it was prevented.read more [...]
Mexican farmers want to use more science in agriculture for two reasons. First, they don't trust the government officials they know are colluding with activists opposing science. Their country has vast oil reserves during record high prices and the industry is controlled by the government and still loses money.Mexican farmers know how to grow food, the last thing they want are urban activists and bureaucrats doing to food what they do to energy.The second is that they know science is why America can export to Mexico and China cheaper than countries with low labor costs can grow it.read more [...]
I am presently in Cairns, sitting in a parallel session of the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, where I am convening a session on Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century, giving a talk on the optimization of the SWGO experiment, and playing the piano at a concert for the conference, in addition of course to visiting the area. Anyway, all of the above is too much information to you, as this post is about something else.read more [...]
The World Health Organisation, the last major body to accept that COVID-19 was a pandemic, is out in front extending its highest emergency level over, of all things, monkeypox.We now know WHO held off on declaring COVID-19 an emergency because former President Donald Trump said it was an emergency and we should cut travel from China. Then he instructed FDA to prepare emergency use authorization standards for a vaccine they believed the private sector could create fast if government got out of the way.(1) read more [...]
Mars is no vacation paradise. The temperatures fluctuate dramatically and average minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface is red dust punctuated by craters, canyons, and volcanoes. On the plus side, the atmosphere is extremely thin, comprising only about 1% of the density of Earth’s, and gravity is 60 percent lower, so you can finally dunk a basketball.With all of those challenges, Martian landers have still been able capture wind measurements — some gauging the cooling rate of heated materials when winds blow over them, others using cameras to image “tell-tales” that blow in the wind. Both anemometric methods have yielded [...]
Astrology is one of those things that makes no sense to literate people. The position of stars a billion light-years away determined your personality, but if you are in the eastern world that personality could be completely different than if you were born 2000 miles west? See: I was a Virgo this morning, now I am a Leo! I totally feel different.read more [...]
After Fast Track consideration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the neffy epinephrine nasal spray for emergency treatment of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, initially for those who weigh at least about 66 pounds). read more [...]
Alcohol is the best-marketed carcinogen out there. Cigarettes and obesity only wish they were able to devote the money to positive imaging that alcohol, one of the top three lifestyle killers, receives. Instead, governments devote billions to education and awareness of those two while the only tepid warning about alcohol is not to drive after you roll the dice on cancer.When it comes to BPA, PFAS, or weedkillers, government epidemiologists say any presence should be considered pathological but say nothing at all about alcohol use despite it being scientifically shown, unlike most epidemiology, and addictive.read more [...]
Last week I traveled from Venice to Tokyo through Zurich, and during the flights I could do some more tests of the RadiaCode 103 - the nice spectrometer for gamma radiation I have been playing with as of late (for a couple of earlier posts and tests see here and here).read more [...]
If you ever get the chance to visit Turkey, I encourage you to do so. Like Civil War battlefields in the southern US, you can trip and stumble across something old - except in the case of Turkey it could be 2,000 years old.Some sites are archaeological research and you can't just wander around like you can in Cappadocia. That is the case with the Göbekli Tepe temples in southern Turkey. It was inhabited in neolithic times and is ground zero in the culture wars over whether agriculture begat civilization or the other way around. Archaeological evidence shows they processed [...]
Environmentalists prey on the poor, which ironically harms the poor the most because they are most impacted by high-cost foods like the kind made using the organic process of companies that fund environmentalists to undermine competitors.Mexico has many problems, and they are nearly all caused because people with money control too much of government. It's a country deep in oil, with a government monopoly on oil, that still somehow manages to lose money on oil during record oil prices. read more [...]