Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
Amazing stuff! Stonehenge and surroundings are still full of surprises!
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian
Monday, June 22, 2020
Beatrix von Storch zum Transsexuellen-Gesetz der Grünen.
Empfehlenswert! Gut das es eine politische Partei wie die AfD in Deutschland gibt!
The Ferguson Lie
Very recommendable! Let the truth come out about those notorious propaganda cases, which agitators and demagogues keep repeating they are showcasing excessive police violence against black Americans!
An Open Letter: Scientists and Racial Justice
More academic agitators and demagogues are coming out of the woodwork! These academics are dangerous zealots and fanatics of the cult of racism!
This open letter is signed by two professors from two different U.S. universities! This only goes to show that professors can be as stupid as the rest of us!
An Open Letter: Scientists and Racial Justice | The Scientist Magazine® What we can and must do to make science more equitable.
An Open Letter: Scientists and Racial Justice | The Scientist Magazine® What we can and must do to make science more equitable.
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
More academic agitators and demagogues are coming out of the woodwork! These academics are dangerous zealots and fanatics of the cult of racism!
In this case, these fools are even blaming predictive policing. This is absurd!
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
In this case, these fools are even blaming predictive policing. This is absurd!
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
Three dozen alien civilizations may be advanced enough to communicate with us
Only 3 dozen? Could this be a serious underestimate? Perhaps, it is us who are not advanced enough to detect and understand the communication of alien civilizations! Remember, there are 10^21 stars in the universe.
Three dozen alien civilizations may be advanced enough to communicate with us | Science | AAAS
Three dozen alien civilizations may be advanced enough to communicate with us | Science | AAAS
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Air Force Names First Woman as Top Noncommissioned Leader in History
This was apparently the week when several women made history in the U.S. military!
I blogged here about the first woman to fly the F-35. Then there was the first female observant Sikh to graduate from West Point!
Air Force Names First Woman as Top Noncommissioned Leader in History
I blogged here about the first woman to fly the F-35. Then there was the first female observant Sikh to graduate from West Point!
Air Force Names First Woman as Top Noncommissioned Leader in History
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
An unusual regular pattern of radio signals from only 500 million light years away! We are not alone in the universe! "There are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in space, or about 10 raised to the 21 (10^21 power, roughly." (Source) There is a more than one in a million chance that other life exists out there somewhere ...
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown | MIT News
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown | MIT News
Saturday, June 20, 2020
King Arthur's Britain With Francis Pryor
Very recommendable!
The Anglo-Saxon invasion was perhaps only a myth! The British were no heathens before Augustine of Canterbury arrived in 597 AD.
The Anglo-Saxon invasion was perhaps only a myth! The British were no heathens before Augustine of Canterbury arrived in 597 AD.
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Air Force Pilot Becomes First Woman to Fly F-35A Stealth Fighter into Combat
Good news! Amazing! Be all you can be!
"She also had a four-person all-female maintenance crew to help launch her flight ..."
Air Force Pilot Becomes First Woman to Fly F-35A Stealth Fighter into Combat The U.S. has deployed its first female F-35A stealth fighter pilot into combat, the U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday.
"She also had a four-person all-female maintenance crew to help launch her flight ..."
Air Force Pilot Becomes First Woman to Fly F-35A Stealth Fighter into Combat The U.S. has deployed its first female F-35A stealth fighter pilot into combat, the U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday.
Woman Becomes First Observant Sikh to Graduate from West Point
Good news! Amazing! Be all you can be!
Woman Becomes First Observant Sikh to Graduate from West Point A young woman made history Saturday as the first observant Sikh to graduate from the United States Military Academy West Point in New York.
Woman Becomes First Observant Sikh to Graduate from West Point A young woman made history Saturday as the first observant Sikh to graduate from the United States Military Academy West Point in New York.
The End Of The Sino-Soviet Friendship and Mao's Cold War
Very recommendable! Did you know that President Nixon intervened on behalf of China to prevent a nuclear escalation between Russia and China? And that it was him who forced the Soviet Union to reconsider their options in the China-Soviet border conflict?
Friday, June 19, 2020
Opioids, Inc.
Another Frontline hyper-accusative documentary against one single company! This kind of hyperventilating journalism is shoddy and ridiculous! And to quasi insinuate that other companies must have done similar things is guilt by association journalism. Despicable!
Alice Weidel zur Regierungserklärung zur EU-Ratspräsidentschaft
Sehr empfehlenswert! Alice Weide for Bundeskanzler!
Chick-fil-A CEO suggests white people shine the shoes of black people to express 'shame' over racism
Incredible! How can somebody stoop to such idiocy! There have been plenty of white people working in the shoe shine business!
Second, there is nothing wrong with shoe shining service only in the minds of arrogant, obsessed, and ignorant people!
Chick-fil-A CEO suggests white people shine the shoes of black people to express 'shame' over racism - TheBlaze
Chick-fil-A CEO suggests white people shine the shoes of black people to express 'shame' over racism - TheBlaze
Barnes the Art Collector
Very recommendable! Albert C. Barnes, an American eccentric who built one of the largest private art collections of modern art ever! He collected the work of dozens of artists while they were still little known. His way of combining or juxtaposing works of arts was thought provoking. He also featured African sculptures and other works of art like no one before. His endeavors to teach art to the public and his workers were ahead of his time. As someone who lived in Philadelphia, PA before, this man is fascinating!
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Chuck Schumer: ‘I Cried Tears of Joy’ over Supreme Court Upholding DACA
What an irresponsible, reckless, and senile/infantile U.S. Senator! Please retire or resign ASAP!
Ted Cruz Delivers SCATHING Rebuke of Justice Roberts After Supreme Court...
Very recommendable! It looks like the Chief Justice is becoming a rogue justice!
Excellent that Senator Cruz goes back to the very controversial decision about the obviously unconstitutional Obamacare! That the Chief Justice totally failed here too is remarkable and it was a harbinger of more bad decisions to come as we learn painfully now!
Excellent that Senator Cruz goes back to the very controversial decision about the obviously unconstitutional Obamacare! That the Chief Justice totally failed here too is remarkable and it was a harbinger of more bad decisions to come as we learn painfully now!
The Supreme Court's transgender ruling undermines the rule of law
Indeed, a very dubious decision by the U.S. Supreme Court! When deference to the legislature was necessary, some justices thought to take matters in their own hands! Another dangerous precedent of justices creating law!
The Supreme Court's transgender ruling undermines the rule of law | Acton Institute
The Supreme Court's transgender ruling undermines the rule of law | Acton Institute
Taiwan Firm Sets Up $70M Program To Invest In Israeli Startups
Good news! Taiwan and Israel business joint ventures!
Taiwan Firm Sets Up $70M Program To Invest In Israeli Startups | Technology News
Taiwan Firm Sets Up $70M Program To Invest In Israeli Startups | Technology News
Mutated coronavirus shows significant boost in infectivity
Bad news!
"... A tiny genetic mutation in the SARS coronavirus 2 variant circulating throughout Europe and the United States significantly increases the virus’ ability to infect cells, lab experiments performed at Scripps Research show. ... “The number—or density—of functional spikes on the virus is 4 or 5 times greater due to this mutation,” ... Our data are very clear, the virus becomes much more stable with the mutation ... "
Mutated coronavirus shows significant boost in infectivity | Scripps Research COVID-19-causing viral variant taking over in the United States and Europe now carries more functional, cell-binding spikes.
"... A tiny genetic mutation in the SARS coronavirus 2 variant circulating throughout Europe and the United States significantly increases the virus’ ability to infect cells, lab experiments performed at Scripps Research show. ... “The number—or density—of functional spikes on the virus is 4 or 5 times greater due to this mutation,” ... Our data are very clear, the virus becomes much more stable with the mutation ... "
Mutated coronavirus shows significant boost in infectivity | Scripps Research COVID-19-causing viral variant taking over in the United States and Europe now carries more functional, cell-binding spikes.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Do you know cetaceans? Meet the world's smartest animals behind primates
The first part is very disturbing! It shows that animals are killing a prey intentionally slowly and make the prey suffer for an extend period of time! I am not sure I have ever seen such a cruel behavior in the animal world.
Is there not a widely held belief that only humans could be cruel to other humans or animals?
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Meister der Barockmusik
Sehr empfehlenswert! Ein französischer Revolutionär der Musik vor der französischen Revolution! Darf es etwas Froschmusik sein?
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
New details emerge from Clinton-Lynch clandestine tarmac meeting
Don't they say the Obama Administration was scandal free?
3D printed brain model shows potential for drug testing
I bet a 3D printed brain has much more potential than just for drug testing! How about replacing injured or diseased brain tissue and so on ...
"To address these problems, researchers in China and the US have demonstrated a 3D tissue construct that sustains a population of neuronal cells for four weeks. The team used a cell-laden bioink to print a stack of three grid-shaped layers on an array of electrodes. Spaces between and within each layer allowed nutrients to reach the cells, while the electrode array measured the cells’ electrophysiological signals."
3D printed brain model shows potential for drug testing – Physics World
"To address these problems, researchers in China and the US have demonstrated a 3D tissue construct that sustains a population of neuronal cells for four weeks. The team used a cell-laden bioink to print a stack of three grid-shaped layers on an array of electrodes. Spaces between and within each layer allowed nutrients to reach the cells, while the electrode array measured the cells’ electrophysiological signals."
3D printed brain model shows potential for drug testing – Physics World
Bundesfinanzministerium - Befristete Absenkung des allgemeinen und ermäßigten Umsatzsteuersatzes zum 1. Juli 2020
So viel Dummheit traut man der SED Kanzlerin kaum zu! Was für ein Feuerwerk der politischen Machbarkeit!
Es ist höchste Zeit im extrem Hochsteuerland Deutschland die Umsatzsteuer permanent deutlich zu senken. Ein Steuersatz von 19% ist Raubrittertum, Expropriation!
"... befristete Senkung der Umsatzsteuer im zweiten Halbjahr 2020: Die Umsatzsteuer wird vom 1. Juli 2020 bis zum 31. Dezember 2020 gesenkt. Der reguläre Steuersatz sinkt dabei von 19 % auf 16 %, der reduzierte Steuersatz von 7 % auf 5 %. ..."
Bundesfinanzministerium - Befristete Absenkung des allgemeinen und ermäßigten Umsatzsteuersatzes zum 1. Juli 2020
Es ist höchste Zeit im extrem Hochsteuerland Deutschland die Umsatzsteuer permanent deutlich zu senken. Ein Steuersatz von 19% ist Raubrittertum, Expropriation!
"... befristete Senkung der Umsatzsteuer im zweiten Halbjahr 2020: Die Umsatzsteuer wird vom 1. Juli 2020 bis zum 31. Dezember 2020 gesenkt. Der reguläre Steuersatz sinkt dabei von 19 % auf 16 %, der reduzierte Steuersatz von 7 % auf 5 %. ..."
Bundesfinanzministerium - Befristete Absenkung des allgemeinen und ermäßigten Umsatzsteuersatzes zum 1. Juli 2020
Apple Pay and iOS App Store under formal antitrust probe in Europe
Ah those foolish Europeans! There are plenty of alternatives to overpriced and overhyped Apple! Why does Europe not have any tech companies like Google etc.?
Since 2014, the European Commissioner for Competition is Margrethe Vestager. She has initiated multiple times stupid proceedings against U.S. tech companies! This time it is probably not different! When will they finally get rid of this Commissioner! You would not believe that she even studied economics. She has been a career politician since age 21! Perhaps time she tried something else!
Apple Pay and iOS App Store under formal antitrust probe in Europe | TechCrunch
Since 2014, the European Commissioner for Competition is Margrethe Vestager. She has initiated multiple times stupid proceedings against U.S. tech companies! This time it is probably not different! When will they finally get rid of this Commissioner! You would not believe that she even studied economics. She has been a career politician since age 21! Perhaps time she tried something else!
Apple Pay and iOS App Store under formal antitrust probe in Europe | TechCrunch
Monday, June 15, 2020
54 Scientists Lose Jobs Amid Probe Into Foreign Ties
This is pretty disturbing stuff! And 54 scientists were involved! Is this only the tip of an iceberg? What about other Western countries?
Prager University: Who's More Radical: The Left or the Right?
Probably correct as far as the left is concerned. However, too much wishful thinking and lots of softness as far as the right is concerned. There are certainly big government advocates on the right as well!
I would actually recommend to redo this video. It's quality and message is significantly below the typical Prager U video!
I would actually recommend to redo this video. It's quality and message is significantly below the typical Prager U video!
One Simple Reason Why Trump Has A Good Chance To Be Reelected
I venture to guess, Trump attracts and activates voters who usually stay away from presidential elections! Sometimes voters like these have been referred to as the forgotten man/woman in the past.
These voters are very difficult to predict by opinion polls or election outcome forecasters.
Given the notoriously low voter turnout at U.S. presidential elections of around 50-55% since 1972 and the few swing and competitive states in play, moving a few voters can mean all the difference.
Whether sleepy Joseph has this kind of attraction is highly doubtful!
Not to mention that President Trump has a good chance to capture some of the black American votes much to the panic of the Democratic Party, which so much depends on these votes to win.
The Truth about the Shooting of Rayshard Brooks
Recommendable! Another dubious outrage about phony racism!
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Enjoy! Is it rock or is it classic? :-) Sounds good with the The Tonhalle Orchester Zürich is a Swiss symphony orchestra!
Retinal imaging goes high resolution
Good news! Probably this will allow e.g. earlier detection of age-related macular degeneration.
"The EPFL team developed a radically different technique for imaging retinal cells with high contrast and high resolution. Rather than sending light through the pupil, the new technique, which they have dubbed transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI), illuminates the white part of the eye (the sclera). This tactic greatly increases the contrast of many retinal structures ... A third advantage stems from the fact that the team image the reflected light from the retina using a conventional transpupillary advanced optics (AO) camera system. This system corrects eye aberrations in real time, enabling them to obtain cellular-level resolution images."
Retinal imaging goes high resolution – Physics World
"The EPFL team developed a radically different technique for imaging retinal cells with high contrast and high resolution. Rather than sending light through the pupil, the new technique, which they have dubbed transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI), illuminates the white part of the eye (the sclera). This tactic greatly increases the contrast of many retinal structures ... A third advantage stems from the fact that the team image the reflected light from the retina using a conventional transpupillary advanced optics (AO) camera system. This system corrects eye aberrations in real time, enabling them to obtain cellular-level resolution images."
Retinal imaging goes high resolution – Physics World
Mounting Evidence Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again?
Recommendable! Don't trust the so called experts especially those who come out with rather sensational forecasts! Wild speculation and prophecies instead of reasonable forecasts are still very common among so called experts! What some so called experts are willing to do for 15 minutes of fame!
NPR: “Mounting Evidence” Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again? - Foundation for Economic Education
NPR: “Mounting Evidence” Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again? - Foundation for Economic Education
Can Software Performance Engineering Save Us From the End of Moore’s Law?
The article is mediocre and scratches only the surface, but the general idea that better software can more efficiently utilize existing hardware is worth pursuing. The accompanying research paper seems a bit odd too! Perusing the abstract of this paper, you get the impression that it is about hardware than software. Anyway!
"One performance engineering strategy is to “parallelize” code. Most existing software has been designed using decades-old models that assume processors can only perform one operation at a time. That’s inefficient because modern processors can do many calculations at the same time by using multiple cores on each chip, and there is parallelism built into each core as well."
Can Software Performance Engineering Save Us From the End of Moore’s Law? - IEEE Spectrum There’s a lot of to gain from writing more efficient code
Here is the underlying research paper:
There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
"One performance engineering strategy is to “parallelize” code. Most existing software has been designed using decades-old models that assume processors can only perform one operation at a time. That’s inefficient because modern processors can do many calculations at the same time by using multiple cores on each chip, and there is parallelism built into each core as well."
Can Software Performance Engineering Save Us From the End of Moore’s Law? - IEEE Spectrum There’s a lot of to gain from writing more efficient code
Here is the underlying research paper:
There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
The Conquest of Hong Kong
Recommendable! Stand with and support the people of Hong Kong!
This video also mentions a Chinese defector now living in Australia, who recently exposed the large scale worldwide infiltration, disinformation, and dirty work by the intelligence services of the Communist Party of China.
This video also mentions a Chinese defector now living in Australia, who recently exposed the large scale worldwide infiltration, disinformation, and dirty work by the intelligence services of the Communist Party of China.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Wahlen USA 2020: Fünf Gründe für die Abwahl von Donald Trump
Wenn der Wunsch Vater des Gedankens ist! Hier entblösst sich offensichtlich ein Journalist und Trump Gegner (Andreas Rüesch von der NZZ)! Andere Westeuropäische Journalisten scheinen ähnliche, dubiose Analysen zu verbreiten.
Die Argumente, die der Journalist anführt sind zum Teil lachhaft, wenn nicht sogar grotesk. Hier ein paar Beispiele:
Die Argumente, die der Journalist anführt sind zum Teil lachhaft, wenn nicht sogar grotesk. Hier ein paar Beispiele:
- "Der Mangel an großen außenpolitischen Erfolgen" Alleine die Tatsache, dass Trump Jerusalem als die Hauptstadt Israel's als erster US Präsident anerkannt hat widerspricht dem. Trump's Attacken gegen die WHO and UN sind auch berechtigt und haben die Augen einer breiten Öffentlichkeit geöffnet, dass solche internationalen Organisationen eher gegen den Westen arbeiten als mit dem Westen. Als erster U.S. Präsident seit Nixon hat Trump die Beziehungen zu China grundsätzlich neu formuliert und der Westen folgt
- "Die wirtschaftliche Rezession während des Wahlkampfes" Dafür ist Trump nicht verantwortlich und die Wähler sind nicht dumm, wie dieser Journalist meint!
- "Ein insgesamt schlechterer Wirtschaftsgang unter Trump als in den vorangegangenen vier Jahren" was fabuliert dieser mutmaßliche Obama Anhänger hier. Deutet darauf hin das dieser, wie so viele andere Journalisten, keine Ahnung von Wirtschaft hat!
- "Das gute Abschneiden [der Demokraten] bei den Kongresswahlen 2018" War der Journalist besoffen als seinen Artikel verfasste! Z.B. im U.S. Senate haben die Republikaner zwei Senatoren hinzugewonnen etc.
This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls
Now they need to develop a robot to repair the sewers! :-)
"Because many modern sewage systems were built decades ago, constant underground monitoring is needed to prevent major leaks."
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology actually has a research group focused on construction robotics.
This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls | New Scientist (behind paywall)
"Because many modern sewage systems were built decades ago, constant underground monitoring is needed to prevent major leaks."
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology actually has a research group focused on construction robotics.
This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls | New Scientist (behind paywall)
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