Jul 02 2017
In Norway, partying with the engineers By Garrison Keillor, June 27, 2017 at 2:28 pm A splendid week in Norway and now it’s good to be back home, driving around town in my old beat-up Volvo and listening to The Drifters. Norway is a land of bicycles and public transit, lean healthy long-legged people …
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Oct 05 2016
Another Deadly Drone Mistake: At What Point Do We Say Enough? By Ted Gup, October 3, 2016 It was an obscure item last week that drew little media attention. An apartment building in Afghanistan’s remote Nangarhar province was apparently hit by an American drone strike, killing at least fifteen civilians and injuring thirteen more. …
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Feb 07 2015
Visitor from space By Donald Cunningham, February 7, 2015 Recently, our planet had a visitor from outer space, and I don’t mean Klaatu. It was what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has labeled “2004 BL86,” a giant asteroid, passing just 745,000 miles from the Earth. That’s about three times the distance we …
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Oct 31 2014
It looks like some kind of sci-fi blob from outer space, but it’s actually a high-speed photograph of a nuclear explosion. It was captured less than 1 millisecond after the detonation using a rapatronic camera, which is capable of exposure times as brief as 10 nanoseconds (one nanosecond is one billionth of a second). The photograph …
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Jun 01 2014
Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong By Daniel Ellsberg, Friday 30 May 2014 07.45 EDT John Kerry was in my mind Wednesday morning, and not because he had called me a patriot on NBC News. I was reading the lead story in the New York Times – “US …
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Mar 07 2014
Here Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People Dumber By Chris Mooney, Wed Mar. 5, 2014 3:00 AM GMT On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth University and his …
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Feb 09 2014
A clue as to why the Shin Bet might hack me By Jonathan Cook, 7 February 2014 I have been pondering – probably more than is wise – what happened yesterday, when I lost control of my computer for an hour shortly after I had contacted the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman for a comment …
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