So this year I will try a Christmas Card ‘blog post’. (I do have this ‘blog’ that tracks some of what I think.) 20 and 21 – who would have thunk it?! Well, at least in 2021 covid (or perhaps the authorities?) began losing its grip on us and life was not nearly as restricted as 2020.... Read more
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Iran’s Nuclear Negotiators Make the U.S. Sit at the Kiddie Table
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | InterestingThis is just fine with the President of the ‘Free’ World. Those whom the Democrats appointed to most agencies and offices of this administration are spineless when it comes to standing up for the principles of America and the west. They are will to sacrifice it all on the altar of ??? mrossol WSJ 11/28/2021 By Reuel... Read more
German Fisherman Catches Ultra-Rare Bright-Yellow Catfish That Looks Like Giant Banana
November 22 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting
A professional angler from Germany reeled in a rare bright-yellow wels catfish—like a giant, writhing banana with gills—while fishing with his twin brother on a lake in the Netherlands.
The fisherman from Duisburg, Martin Glatz, on Oct. 4 was testing out a new lure, and at first thought he’d hooked a fish...
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The tangled history of mRNA vaccines
September 21 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, InterestingThis article from NATURE is provides a good history of the long road to mRNA development. Quite long, but interesting. mrossol
The RNA sequence used in the COVID-19 vaccine...
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How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists | Quanta Magazine
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, ScienceAug 12, 2021 by Nima Arkani-Hamed Steven Weinberg, who died on July 23, towered over theoretical physics in the second half of the 20th century. He strongly believed that, armed only with the fundamental principles of relativity and quantum mechanics, the theoretical physicist can examine all phenomena in the universe — from the smallest to the largest scales. His work transformed... Read more
The Baloney Detection Kit
August 13 | Posted by mrossol | Critical Thinking, Interesting, Personal Development, ScienceBrain Pickings, originally published January 5, 2014. Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934–December 20, 1996) was many things — a cosmic sage, voracious reader, hopeless romantic, and brilliant philosopher. But above all, he endures as our era’s greatest patron saint of reason and critical thinking, a master of the vital balance between skepticism and openness. In The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a... Read more
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