The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the
continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of
knowledge. -Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and
writer (1914-2004)
The first book printed in the English language, The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye, from the press of William Caxton c. 1473-74, sold for £1,082,500 ($1,823,363) last month. Only 18 copies of this book survive, and of those, only six are in private hands.
This week is the 45 anniversary of the Manson murders, astonishing even now. Patricia Krenwinkle is now 66. She is eligible for parole in 2018.
Obsequious: a: Behaving in an ingratiating or servile manner. Earlier the word meant obedient or dutiful, with no connotations of fawning. Over time it has taken a negative turn. From Latin obsequiosus (compliant), from obsequi (to comply), from ob- (to) + sequi (follow). Earliest documented use: 1447.
Of the various petitions on global warming circulated for signatures by scientists, the one by the Petition Project, a group of physicists and physical chemists based in La Jolla, Calif., has by far the most signatures—more than 31,000 (more than 9,000 with a Ph.D.). It was most recently published in 2009, and most signers were added or reaffirmed since 2007. The petition states that “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of . . . carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
Expect outrage over how giving the experimental Ebola drug to the two U.S. victims was decided. Why not someone else? A local, somebody poor? Why a white American? This will originate from those people who oppose using Africa for experimental drug testing.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-more-secular-europe-divided-by-cross.html
The first book printed in the English language, The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye, from the press of William Caxton c. 1473-74, sold for £1,082,500 ($1,823,363) last month. Only 18 copies of this book survive, and of those, only six are in private hands.
This week is the 45 anniversary of the Manson murders, astonishing even now. Patricia Krenwinkle is now 66. She is eligible for parole in 2018.
Obsequious: a: Behaving in an ingratiating or servile manner. Earlier the word meant obedient or dutiful, with no connotations of fawning. Over time it has taken a negative turn. From Latin obsequiosus (compliant), from obsequi (to comply), from ob- (to) + sequi (follow). Earliest documented use: 1447.
Of the various petitions on global warming circulated for signatures by scientists, the one by the Petition Project, a group of physicists and physical chemists based in La Jolla, Calif., has by far the most signatures—more than 31,000 (more than 9,000 with a Ph.D.). It was most recently published in 2009, and most signers were added or reaffirmed since 2007. The petition states that “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of . . . carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
Expect outrage over how giving the experimental Ebola drug to the two U.S. victims was decided. Why not someone else? A local, somebody poor? Why a white American? This will originate from those people who oppose using Africa for experimental drug testing.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-more-secular-europe-divided-by-cross.html
The first known ship inside a bottle was created during the early years of the 19th century. Like other sailor-made art forms, these were created aboard old sailing ships in an era when sea voyages lasted months and sometimes years. Whalers, during their idle hours, produced scrimshaw (drawings on bone or ivory) for family members, sweethearts, and friends.
Earlier this season, after a Milwaukee Brewers pitcher unintentionally hit one batter and had a breaking ball sail a little too close to the head of a second batter, Diamondbacks pitcher Evan Marshall was ejected for hitting Ryan Braun. When Marshall arrived back at the dugout, he received an emphatic fist-pump from manager Kirk Gibson.
Who is....Konstantin Volkov?
The queen of England's former Press Secretary, Dickie Arbiter, is reportedly writing about the royal family.
The queen of England's former Press Secretary, Dickie Arbiter, is reportedly writing about the royal family.
One of Israel's defenses of the civilian deaths in their attacks is their insistence that Hamas is using civilians as shields and is firing on Israel from places most would consider off-limits.
Aishi Zidan of Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat reported seeing a Hamas rocket launched from hospital grounds at Israel: “Also, a rocket attack was conducted from the ‘backyard’ of the hospital at 2 o’clock in the morning. It (the rocket launch), in fact, happened somewhere close by because the noise right here at the hospital area was really loud. Indeed, these rockets launched here from the Gaza side (of the border) are headed into Israel.” Pro-Israel sites picked up and used her broadcast, generating Zidan's anger.
Noting the main purpose of her report was to cover the “Palestinian civilians who were victims of war,” Zidan wrote, “During the night someone launched a rocket somewhere behind the hospital. Now this sentence from my article is spreading in the pro-Israeli medias. I mentioned this in my article because I’m a professional journalist. I try to cover the events truthfully as I see them and I strongly condemn these kind of actions.”
“But I find it very disgusting how this one sentence was taken out context to be used as an excuse to target civilians in Gaza. My story became quickly a tool of propaganda. The people sharing this story are not even trying to understand the situation as a whole. They are just looking for excuses to Israeli actions in Gaza,” she added.
“I refuse to be part of this kind of propaganda,” she concluded.
This is a very peculiar story and stance.
Marburg Ebola arose in the 1960's and was first thought to have been the result of a bio-weapons program. But the actual source of the virus in Germany was a species of African green monkeys, imported from Uganda, which were being used by the German scientists for polio vaccine research.
The university creates a very difficult inherent conflict. Aside from the practical questions of cost and values, the nature of the university is essentially a counterculture, a loosely organized system opposed to the nature of the West, its structure and its history. But it is completely dependent upon the production of that culture and was created by its history. That inherent contradiction cannot persist.
About one in thirty thousand men and one in a hundred thousand women seek gender-reassignment surgery.
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd....a news article of the times:
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