The story of American in general: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
Proof they don’t actually fear Trump: Why the Hell Did Democrats Just Extend the Patriot Act?
We don’t actually care about military might anymore: Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Just in case you missed it: Israel carries out ‘wide-scale strikes’ on Iranian forces in Syria
Two gentlemen experiment with an old treatise on how to fight a man on horseback.
Although they don’t mention it, it reminded me of the Robert the Bruce’s famous duel at the Battle of Bannockburn.
I know there is two sides to this story and only one of them is told. But still…..The Quiet Rooms
I think there are more solutions to this problem then most people allow for. But it is still an interesting issue. Creating buildings to house all those people, along with the roads to knit them together, requires prodigious quantities of sand. In India, the amount of construction sand used annually has more than tripled since 2000, and is still rising fast. China alone has likely used more sand this decade than the United States did in the entire 20th Century. There is so much demand for certain types of construction sand that Dubai, which sits on the edge of an enormous desert, imports sand from Australia. That’s right: exporters in Australia are literally selling sand to Arabs.
When two people drive towards each other at full speed hoping the other person swerves it is called a game of chicken. Iran and Israel renegotiate ‘rules of the game’ in Syria shadow war
I will believe it when I see it. Half-Life: Alyx: What we know about Valve’s upcoming full-length VR game
Not in the news. Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
I am wondering if this will cause more problems then it will solve. This new magical coating saves water by making toilets so slippery that poop basically flushes itself
For those who missed it in the dead tree edition. Blockbuster WSJ Investigation: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
You already know this. Why you’re not hearing more about that mass shooting in Fresno
The below video is wartime propaganda so it should be cut a little slack. No country is going to tell a complete set of facts while it is still fighting a war. And in a lot of ways, the it does a pretty good job of conveying how hellish the battle was without getting too gruesome about it (in fact, it took the President of the United States to release this video during war time). But for all its educational value, it does present a skewed view of the battle to hide some critical errors that the US leadership made.
This article presents a fairly concise look at the major error made by US forces. And of course, there is always the Wikipedia overview (which also contains the history of the above video).
Your Tax Dollars At Work: On a sandy patch of land in Niger, at the edge of the Sahara Desert, lies the Air Force’s newest base.
John Henry Wins One: Boeing abandons its failed fuselage robots on the 777X, handing the job back to machinists
It sounds worse then it is, but it is a useful reminder that it is out there: Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plague
A very interesting post on the dangers of doing business in China. You must be very careful in negotiating lower prices from your Chinese factory because just asking for lower prices could cause your company some very serious blowback.
A useful complement to the Educated Deb Posts on japan if anyone has the time to read it. “Japan Raid by U.S. Is Out of Question”
This has been the story for a long time now. At some point it is going to end, but accurately predicting that end has made a fool out of a lot of people. How Best to Describe the U.S. External Balance Sheet
This is a a departure from our usual Educate Deb fair in that it is multiple smaller videos strung together in attempt to give a complete novice a better than average understanding of the Navel War between Japan and the US.
To start with, we need to understand what Japan hoped to accomplish by declaring war against the US. And there is no more concise way to do that that look at Japan’s successful Naval war against Tsarist Russia.
Battle of Tsushima
Just as with the war with Russia, Japan sought to open its war with the US with a surprise attack.
Pearl Harbor.
Japan knew that it could not win a long war with America. The war against Russia almost bankrupted Japan and that was relativity short war. So even though Japan had many early success in the war, the Japanese navy knew they had to bring the US fleet to battle and defeat it just as they defeated the two Russian fleets if they wanted to have a chance to win the war. For this reason, Japan sought to bring about the decisive defeat of the American fleet at the battle of Midway.
The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective
After the battle of Midway, everyone with half a brain knew that America was going to win. But still, Japan fought on and on and on. The short little video below shows the changing tides of the war from the time of the pearl harbor attack until Japan surrendered.
World War II in the Pacific: Every Day
Almost everyone knows how America ended the war. But what was the alternative? The below video gives a good overview of one alternative way of doing things.
The Invasion of Japan – Operation Olympic / Downfall
If you still have patience, this last video is a good corrective to the view that “of course Japan would have surrendered even with out the dropping of the bomb.
Why the Japanese Military wanted to fight on after(!) the 2nd Nuke
The most interesting story of the day. The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s
Coming soon to a country near you? Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society
Just in case you are not keeping up. Impeachment: the allegations against US President Donald Trump