1565
The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567
James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1848
Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1921
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1967
Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1981
A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
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"We are 1,000% going to go bankrupt as a country and fail as a country, without AI and robots. Nothing else will solve the national debt."--Musk, on AI productivity
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Fauci is invoking the Fifth. The committee is divided on political lines, and the Democrats are talking about measles. 1 million Americans died and 15 million people died worldwide by a U.S. funded research program, and the country's political life has been altered, and these guys think this is a question of the next midterm election.
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Is the Constitution compatible with the power and conformity requirements of socialism and Islamism?
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Social experiments are a modern curse. They are soft with subjective criteria and uncontrollable variables. But an alluring study has come out of Scandinavia about retirement and more.
Social experiments are a modern curse. They are soft with subjective criteria and uncontrollable variables. But an alluring study has come out of Scandinavia about retirement and more.
The unexpected grief of retirement isn't losing a paycheck—it's losing the moment someone notices you're no longer there. Retirement can remove a steady stream of evidence that a person is noticed, relied upon, and socially consequential. That a person matters.
Simple and impactful.
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Discussion and Credible Suspicions
A recent article offers that Trump is part of a repeating wave of aristocrats and autocrats who have, since America's founding, have tried to control the country, once by a cabal including the Johnson family of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolution, once in the Civil War, once in the Roosevelt Years, and now, with Trump.
The facts may require a bit of imagination. (The aristocrats during the Revolution were real-- they were British; the planters wanted to be aristocrats but actually weren't; not sure about the Roosevelt years, and most everyone who thinks he's an aristocrat now wouldn't admit to any connection to Trump.) Reaction to ambition and dominance are actually two of the stimuli of America's Revolution.)
The group Students for Life of America has spent the last two years collecting and analyzing water samples in different American cities, searching for evidence to support their claim that women having at-home abortions using the drugs and flushing fetal remains poses a threat to the environment.
That work culminated in the release this week of a study called "controversial" purporting to show “significant levels of mifepristone” contaminating the waterways of Austin, Texas; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Carbondale, Illinois. Despite acknowledging there is no proof the mifepristone detected impacts human health, livestock or the environment, the paper warns of potential “deleterious effects on human and animal biology,” including everything from autism to infertility.
A single study in a journal run by what is called "anti-abortion physicians."
As with global warming studies, such presentations can be insubstantial and thus hard to argue against, and no cause-and-effect scientific demands are claimed. They are suggestions, notions postulating unproved relationships in a media world of information blizzards. But, unlike the stimulating suggestions of curious college coffee houses that have, over the years, proffered everything from Utilitarianism to Bigfoot, these challenges are pointed and purposeful, fueled themselves with ambition and resentment. They are marketing plans and battlecries posing as hypotheses and academic examination.
The group Students for Life of America has spent the last two years collecting and analyzing water samples in different American cities, searching for evidence to support their claim that women having at-home abortions using the drugs and flushing fetal remains poses a threat to the environment.
That work culminated in the release this week of a study called "controversial" purporting to show “significant levels of mifepristone” contaminating the waterways of Austin, Texas; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Carbondale, Illinois. Despite acknowledging there is no proof the mifepristone detected impacts human health, livestock or the environment, the paper warns of potential “deleterious effects on human and animal biology,” including everything from autism to infertility.
A single study in a journal run by what is called "anti-abortion physicians."
As with global warming studies, such presentations can be insubstantial and thus hard to argue against, and no cause-and-effect scientific demands are claimed. They are suggestions, notions postulating unproved relationships in a media world of information blizzards. But, unlike the stimulating suggestions of curious college coffee houses that have, over the years, proffered everything from Utilitarianism to Bigfoot, these challenges are pointed and purposeful, fueled themselves with ambition and resentment. They are marketing plans and battlecries posing as hypotheses and academic examination.
This sort of information is possible only in a culture accepting of exaggeration and advertising in its efforts to permit free expression, but such an atmosphere demands a critical, discerning citizenry. They are meaningful only to the ecstatic and the gullible.
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