This article is liberal commentary. Probably not. It’s a lovely idea, but human beings have never gotten along, and probably never will. We’re more likely to eventually blow ourselves up. People don’t want to get along. We’ve sorted ourselves into tribes, and people want to f[...]
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September 29th, 2020 - 10:00 am § in Environment, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Religion, Science
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Fire threatens Mt. Wilson observatory
A brush fire authorities called “suspicious” is burning near California’s Mount Wilson observatory, and a charred body believed to be that of a teenager who’d threatened self-harm was found in the area. Read story here. The observatory, which houses multiple telescopes, inclu[...]
Trump’s war on science
“A defining trait of Donald Trump’s presidency is his incessant destruction of reason, evidence and science in the service of his personal whims, conspiratorial mindset and political requirements.” Read story here Huge chunk of Greenland ice sheet breaks off Read story here Return to The-Ave.[...]
Toxic Flag Syndrome
A single exposure to the US flag shifts support towards the Republican Party for up to eight months (T. J. Carter et al. Psychol. Sci. 22, 1011–1018; 2011). There is scant evidence that incidental cues in the environment significantly alter people’s political judgments and behavior in a [...]
BREAKING NEWS — Asteroid to destroy earth a day before election
“An asteroid known as 2018 VP1 is headed straight to Earth” and “could hit on November 2, 2020, according to the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,” numerous news sources reported on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. Read story he[...]
Third hottest temperature?
The 130º F recorded at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, will be the 3rd hottest reading in human history and a new August mark if verified, according to the World Metereological Organization. The world record of 134º F also was at Furnace Creek (why’d they name it that?[...]
3-Minute Movie: “The Black Hole”
This is a morality tale, the moral being: Don’t mess with forces you don’t understand. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
The journey from FDR’s “New Deal” to Trump’s raw deal
FDR, faced with America’s worst economic crisis, didn’t know what to do. He threw spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick. Some ideas spawned by his “brain trust” were failures; others, like Social Security, were spectacular successes. Before the economy had recovered, [...]
New analysis suggests D. B. Cooper splashed down in the Columbia River
A scientist using an electron microscope to study biological material on the D. B. Cooper cash found in a Columbia River sandbar in 1980 by a boy camping with his family says the money couldn’t have been in the water for more than a few months, ruling out an early FBI theory that Cooper jumped[...]
WHO warns of “long road back”
“The World Health Organization warned on Monday that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19, and the road to normality would be long,” and “exhorted all nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as mask-wearing,[...]