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Iran’s Nuclear Negotiators Make the U.S. Sit at the Kiddie Table

November 28 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting

This 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

By Epoch Inspired Staff   November 9, 2021
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... Read more

The tangled history of mRNA vaccines

September 21 | Posted by mrossol | Coronavirus, Interesting

This 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... Read more

How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists | Quanta Magazine

August 15 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Science

Aug 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, Science

Brain 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

The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

August 10 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Science

Quanta Magazine, May 3, 2019 The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility of even more exotic physics. Quanta Magazine Natalie Wolchover

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