Holy cow! Good news sources are so hard to find in the USA. I’ve always trusted The Guardian. That’s why I am so shocked to discover that the bottom row of “news” stories, “More from around the web”, is fake news from Outbrain, make to look just like the row above. They are paid “news”…
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Science Fiction Predicts Science: Slow Glass
Here’s an amazing example of this. In 1966 “The Light Of Other Days ” was published by Bob Shaw. It described “slow glass”, that could slow the image down, emerging on the far side of the pane much later. Now scientists are doing just that! This Science Daily article describes it.
Hypocrisy in Surveillance
Since the NSA surveillance revelations, many government leaders have argued that it is reasonable to spy on all Americans. I guess we cannot be trusted. They are suspicious of our motives. They have reason to be, seeing how low Congressional approval ratings are. As is often the case, we demand that Congress endure the same…
The Thread that Binds Us
We are all one humanity. From Australopithecus, four million years go, who walked this Earth like we do. With all the humans who have lived and died for thousands of years. To all the people who are alive now, Now, NOW, in this very moment at which you are considering the word you are reading…
The Military Budget
This is the article that I wanted to write. Jeff Cohen, in “The Elephant in the Room: Militarism”, nicely summarizes the ridiculous scale of military spending in the US. The War on Terror, like the War on Drugs, is misplaced action based on fear generated by a handful of politicians with a personal agenda. It’s…