Scientist Realizes Important Flaw in Radioactive Dating
Monthly Archives: April 2017
All North Korea All the Time
China’s Shift on N.Korea Brings Big Risks and Opportunities. If true this is a serious change.
Could North Korea Annihilate Seoul with Its Artillery?. This article is all very true from a factual perspective. But from a modern day political perspective, 20 dead civilians and 100 million dollars of property damage is enough to topple a government. And I don’t think even the optimistic people think the damage/deaths will be that low.
Did Trump-Xi call reveal subtle shift in China’s stance on North Korean nuclear crisis? More reading of the Chinese tea leaves.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Risk Nuclear War. This article has a lot of bogus statements. For example, the claim that Kim is predictable and Trump is not could only be made by people who don’t remember Kim killing the uncle that everyone thought was his biggest supporter with an anti-aircraft cannon. But buried in the article is the reason even China is getting concerned. If the powers that be really think that North Korea will soon have hundreds of working nukes, they have to be thinking that North Korea will sell them to every one who has money.
The EMP Threat From North Korea Is Real, and Terrifying. A little harder to pull off then the article makes it seem like, but it would not be fun.
Writing love letters, bidding $100,000 extra: Buying a Southern California home is ‘insane’. Link added just for irony.
News for Today (4/25/17)
Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance. I could not have guessed how this article was going to end. It starts off as a perfectly reasonable if boring story and by the end of it I was groaning in pain.
Mali’s Desert Climate Is the Doom of Armored Vehicles. Everyone seems to have forgotten this place but it is one of many places that the western powers are setting on to try to keep the world from blowing up.
Phoenix Point is now crowdfunding: we spoke to Julian Gollop about standing out in a post-XCOM world. I am skeptical, but it looks more interesting then I would have thought.
News for Today (4/24/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today.
In The News
BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders
Marine Le Pen Is In A Much Deeper Hole Than Trump Ever Was
The county at the centre of a Chinese debt crisis
Not In The News But Should Be
‘They call us bigoted and undereducated’
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (4/23/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
How Chobani’s Hamdi Ulukaya Is Winning America’s Culture War. Maybe I should not put this in the bogus category. I don’t dislike the guy and I don’t know that any of the facts in the article are wrong. But I know it that politics and hating brown skin are not the whole story about people who don’t like this guy. Bottom line: You look up the definition of hagiographical portrait of someone and there is a link to this article.
That said, it is true that nobody else was likely to get that factory in upstate New York up and running again. But I think it is clear that he is not fool enough to do that again (and I don’t mean that as a criticism of him so much as a criticism of New York State.
In The News
The trees that make Southern California shady and green are dying. Fast.
107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
Laser Vision: Special Operations Command Prepares to Test Airborne Directed Energy Weapon
Not In The News But Should Be
Nothing for today.
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (4/22/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today.
In The News
The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley
NYU grad student goes undercover in Chinese iPhone factory and it ain’t pretty
UK weather: Snow and storms to strike Britain with low temperatures lasting for weeks
How a Handwritten Note Gave Erdogan an Uncheckable Election Win
Not In The News But Should Be
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria. Should be in the news because most people don’t realize how messed up our copyright laws are. Don’t get me wrong, I think the purposed class action settlement was seriously flawed. But the root of the problem is the changes in copyright law brought about by Disney.
Entertainment of the Day
Links for a Friday
Power restored in SF after blackout shuts businesses, cable cars
Are French pollsters cheating? The jury is still out
The below is a follow up to the last video I posted and well worth watching particularly if you don’t know a lot about World War II history.
News for Today (4/20/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today
In The News
Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
South Indian frog oozes molecule that inexplicably decimates flu viruses
Extremists on Left and Right Push France to the Brink
Not In The News But Should Be
This kind of reminder of how commanders of day were looking at things is sadly lacking in today’s historical education.
Entertainment of the Day
Nothing for today.
What I got for today
Um… NY Governor Cuomo made nearly $800K on a book that sold 3K copies?
The West Virginia Productivity Miracle. Really!. Headline tries a little too hard to contrarain but still some interesting thoughts.
‘They’re just hiding’: Experts say Puerto Rico may be underreporting Zika-affected births
Kevin O’Brien. So sad in a very selfish way. One of the few good military bloggers down.