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If we are serious about transforming our country – and I hope all of you are serious about transforming our country – if we are serious about rebuilding the American middle class, if we are serious about reinvigorating American democracy, we need to develop a political movement which once again is prepared to take on…

There’s a news story about a new project which will attempt to drill into the Earth’s mantle. If it succeeds it will be the first time humans have done so. This is surprising to me. Humans have walked on the moon. They have landed roving robotic explorers on Mars, and landed a probe on Saturn’s…

bbc.com Introducing Hong Kong’s ‘umbrella soldiers’

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The holiday season, Christmas season, is a charade. Christmas is approaching. There will be lights, parties, Christmas trees and nativity scenes… it’s all a charade. The world continues to go to war. — Pope Francis “Unmanned” investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror,…

Many governments are unfortunately not facing the issue of climate change. People feel extremely angry and betrayed when they find out down the road that they were sold out, that something they expected to be able to rely upon fails. We all expect governments to be intelligent and to plan appropriately, and to anticipate future…

From a Systems Management perspective, Daylight Savings Time is simply outrageous. We have to remember that it was created by Ben Franklin in the era of the horse and buggy. Most people did not even have clocks, much less exist in environments where the precise measurement and keeping of time was ubiquitous. If a team…

Even while global warming and its impending devastating consequences is occupying everyone’s concern its still fascinating to look back and study that last ice age – the Wisconsan Glaciation – which happened only a relatively recent time ago, and which ended rather quickly after what I believe was a meteor impact which caused catastrophic sudden…

This image is in PNG format with a color profile of “Lenovo Thinkpad LCD Monitor” which may correspond to the 1600×900 display of the Thinkpad W520 that it was created on. Below is the same image in sRGB format which is the unfortunately the standard for computers and the web. It does not look better…

I like designing colors. I have found that really trying to design specific colors is difficult. For a tool I use a laptop computer with an LED-backlit LCD display. One problem I am noticing is that the gamut seems too narrow. I know that there are colors missing at the edge of the spectrum in…