The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong...the truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I'm not too sure."--Mencken
Mom is off to Wheeling today.
Chris had a good presentation yesterday.
Liz got in to Ottawa.
Dickerson homered for the Phillies. We have Pablo Reyes.
Sean Rodrigues: Walkoff homer.
Here is a truly scary story that appeared in the WSJ: A diversity panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for New York City to stop using academic criteria to screen applicants for admission to public middle schools, and to phase out elementary gifted-and-talented programs that now require a test.
It is hard to imagine a culture being successful with that kind of thinking.
Who is Greta Thunberg and why is the Press paying attention to her?
“Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist says in the book, "Novacene." “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”
In the new paper “From workers to capitalists in less than two generations” by Li Yang, Filip Novokmet, and Branko Milanovic, China’s economic transformation is “a unique event in world economic history: never have so many people over such a relatively short period of time increased their income so much.” And it happened as “China moved from the still predominantly command economy of the 1980s, with only timid attempts at reforms, towards more comprehensive marketization of the country observed today.”
Krakatoa
Krakatoa literally blew itself apart, setting off a chain of natural disasters that would be felt around the world for years to come. An enormous blast on the afternoon of August 26 destroyed the northern two-thirds of the island; as it plunged into the Sunda Strait, between the Java Sea and Indian Ocean, the gushing mountain generated a series of pyroclastic flows (fast-moving fluid bodies of molten gas, ash and rock) and monstrous tsunamis that swept over nearby coastlines.
The best documented is the Krakatoa explosion starting August 26, 1883. The volcanic cloud was 17 miles high, the waves 100 feet. The fourth and greatest of its explosions was heard 3000 miles away on Rodriguez Island. The particles sent into the air caused red reflections throughout the world that stayed for three years and were included in American landscape paintings of the period. 36,000 people were killed by thermal injury and tsunami.
Mom is off to Wheeling today.
Chris had a good presentation yesterday.
Liz got in to Ottawa.
Dickerson homered for the Phillies. We have Pablo Reyes.
Sean Rodrigues: Walkoff homer.
Here is a truly scary story that appeared in the WSJ: A diversity panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for New York City to stop using academic criteria to screen applicants for admission to public middle schools, and to phase out elementary gifted-and-talented programs that now require a test.
It is hard to imagine a culture being successful with that kind of thinking.
Who is Greta Thunberg and why is the Press paying attention to her?
“Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist says in the book, "Novacene." “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”
MacDonald: The saddest part of the current rage against the American past is that after the monuments have been removed, the paintings effaced and the nationalistic words banished, nothing will have changed in the status of the self-proclaimed intersectional victims. The academic achievement gap will be intact. The greatest barriers to racial equality today are not statues and patriotic holidays; they are family breakdown and a street culture that regards academic effort and achievement as “acting white.” The time spent spray-painting statuary could be far better spent in the library acquiring knowledge and mastering skills.
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Through June, coal's share of US electric power is at an all-time low of <24 35.4="" all-time="" an="" font="" gas="" high="" natural="" of="" reached="" share="" the="" while="">
In the new paper “From workers to capitalists in less than two generations” by Li Yang, Filip Novokmet, and Branko Milanovic, China’s economic transformation is “a unique event in world economic history: never have so many people over such a relatively short period of time increased their income so much.” And it happened as “China moved from the still predominantly command economy of the 1980s, with only timid attempts at reforms, towards more comprehensive marketization of the country observed today.”
Krakatoa
Krakatoa literally blew itself apart, setting off a chain of natural disasters that would be felt around the world for years to come. An enormous blast on the afternoon of August 26 destroyed the northern two-thirds of the island; as it plunged into the Sunda Strait, between the Java Sea and Indian Ocean, the gushing mountain generated a series of pyroclastic flows (fast-moving fluid bodies of molten gas, ash and rock) and monstrous tsunamis that swept over nearby coastlines.
The best documented is the Krakatoa explosion starting August 26, 1883. The volcanic cloud was 17 miles high, the waves 100 feet. The fourth and greatest of its explosions was heard 3000 miles away on Rodriguez Island. The particles sent into the air caused red reflections throughout the world that stayed for three years and were included in American landscape paintings of the period. 36,000 people were killed by thermal injury and tsunami.
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