Posted on Dec 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Superhero Science: Ant-Man And The Wasp Shouldn’t Be Able To Breathe At Insect Size, Here’s Why They Can
At insect size, miniature superheroes Ant-Man and The Wasp should be dead in minutes. Since they did not train on the top of Mt. Everest, they would be unable to overcome the atmospheric density they would have to face at tiny size, and that's without getting into the metabolism issues.Ant-Man clearly didn't have a lot of scientific thought that went into him when he was created by a combination...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2018 | Comments Off on What Happens When Millennials Run The Workplace? Mic Now Knows The Answer
Want to know how to create a $1 million company? Give $60 million to someone claiming they are going to revolutionize journalism by hiring a bunch of young, edgy people who don't care about business or making money, but who believe success happens by being popular on Facebook.You know who is the only company with long-term success being popular on Facebook? Facebook. For everyone else, it is a...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2018 | Comments Off on RIP Dr. Herb London: A Fine Conservative, A Great Man
In late 2014 I came downstairs from my home office and said to my wife, "Herb London just left me a message.""Is he any relation to Stacy London?" she asked in her offhand humor way. Well, yeah, she is his daughter, if you are from California, but if you are of my generation and from anywhere near the orbit of New York, you know who Herb London is. And Herb London was getting a return phone...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Russian Fifth Columnists Convicted In Finland – Are Those Aiding Activists In The US Next?
During the Obama administration, America's Director of National Intelligence exposed Russian efforts to undermine U.S. natural gas ("fracking") by supporting environmental groups using "donor advised" funds (large pools of money where individual participants can anonymously decide where to send the cash) in order to keep Europe, which has thrown the energy baby out with the political water by...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2018 | Comments Off on So King Arthur Has Returned – And She’s An 8-Year-Old Girl
In Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", French and English tales were reworked into the definitive mythology of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. But he may have gotten one thing wrong.Instead of a lady in the lake providing (and eventually taking back) the fabled sword Excalibur, symbol of pre-Norman rule, until the return of the King, the lady in the lake may have been meant to be the...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Anti-Science Mommy Bloggers Declare War On Mark Lynas – Again
It can't have been easy for former environmental activist Mark Lynas to change sides. His friends were on the anti-science side, he was a dutiful reader of The Guardian, where activists and environmental trade groups reign supreme, and he was adored there.But he had an ethical dilemma. How could he talk about the science consensus on climate change, despite generous potential funding by...
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