NASA Curiosity rover delivers insanely high-res Mars panorama

Albany’s Dead-Of-Night Coronavirus Vote Gives Cuomo Sweeping New Emergency Powers

Connected Cows

Trump Solves Problem Caused by Obama-Era Regulation Which Was Stalling Ability to Test for Coronavirus

The Idlib Turkey Shoot: The Destruction and Capture of Vehicles and Equipment by Turkish and Rebel Forces

COVID-19 Isn’t As Deadly As We Think

Real ID starts to bite. The Washington Post reported in August that 8,000 Maryland licenses have been suspended. Three months earlier, MVA announced that 66,300 people were at risk of having their driver’s license or identification cards revoked for failure to comply with MVA demands. As Maryland ramps up enforcement, the number of suspended licenses is probably far higher now but MVA spokespersons failed to respond to repeated press inquiries seeking the latest number. Maryland police are seizing the license of any driver who they stop whose only offense was failure to hustle to show Maryland bureaucrats their birth certificate, passport, utility bills, Social Security card, or other proof of their identity.

The real scandal is that a tech executive is using WhatsApp. You would think he would know better. Jeff Bezos, blackmail and the Saudi crown prince

Not my area of expertise, but it sounds all to familiar to all NY State Employees. You Blew It, Andrew Cuomo

We Stood By While Saudis Helped Criminals Flee U.S.

WHO calls for emergency meeting on new virus in China, as cases spread to health care workers

Notably, vaccine effectiveness has declined in each of the past four flu seasons for which data are available: from 48 percent in 2015-16 to 40 percent in 2016-17, 38 percent effective in 2017-18 and 29 percent effective in 2018-19.

Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Is Evolving Into a ‘Superbug’, Scientists Warn

Syrians enlist in Libya war day after Berlin talks

China says infections spreading as it reports third death from Wuhan virus; WHO indicates human transmission likely

A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel

The title is overdone. It has long been known that Israel shot down some soviet planes that soviet anti-air batteries were a big problem for Israel. Better to say undereported then nobody knew. The Secret Israel-Soviet Union War Nobody Knew About

2019: A Year the News Media Would Rather Forget

This is a good overview for those who are not familiar with structure of Iran’s military. However, it does not make it as clear as I would like how the Revolutionary Guards Corps function as a state within a state. However, the information is all there if you pay attention. Persian Might: How Strong Is Iran’s Military?

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