What Caught My Eye

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ape man

In Bleak Prognosis, Italy’s Financial Regulator Threatens EU with Return to a “National Currency” The failure of Italy’s Financial System is something that everyone can see coming and nobody believes will actually happen (at least if you pay attention to what the markets are doing).

Roof failure was at a one-of-a-kind Hanford tunnel system . More on that radiation problem on the west coast.

Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Brain Lesions That Lead to Strokes . It is all connected together in case you have not figured that out yet.

Of Interest

Posted on May 10, 2017 by ape man

Tunnel Collapses at Nuclear Facility Once Called ‘an Underground Chernobyl Waiting to Happen’. Hyperbole, but still of interest.

Greater capacity to detect sound gives autistic people an advantage

No, New York Times, Christianity’s Opposition to Abortion Is Anything But New. There is dubious start to the article, but it has more educational value as it goes on for those who don’t know much early church history.

3 for today

Posted on May 8, 2017 by ape man

NYT reports chronic national shortage of automotive mechanics

The President’s Secret Air Force

Deadly Tick Disease Has Experts Issuing Dire Warnings

No Politics Post

Posted on April 27, 2017 by ape man

Scientist Realizes Important Flaw in Radioactive Dating

Banks should let ancient programming language COBOL die

18 Things to Know Before You Go to Lagos

News for Today (4/25/17)

Posted on April 25, 2017 by ape man

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 (4/23/17)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by ape man

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.

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