Author: News Desk

February 20, 2016 0

Water Vapor, Water Vapor Everywhere and It All Absorbs in Air

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Tweet Elementary quantum mechanics quickly shows that harmonic oscillators (shown by the dotted line in the figure to the right) can only absorb or emit light associated with a transition between neighboring quantum levels such as between v = 0 and 1.  To the extent that molecular vibrational motion is harmonic, this is an absolute rule. Oh yes, there also has to be a change in the dipole moment between the two levels of the transition which explains why homonuclear diatomics (N 2  , O 2 , H 2 ) don’t absorb in the infrared

February 17, 2016 0

Syria: At the Gateway of Greater War

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Links Syria: At the Gateway of Greater War February 17, 2016 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – Syrian forces backed by Russian airpower have made major advances across the battlefield along multiple fronts.

February 16, 2016 0

Finding the Islamic State a Safe House

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Links Finding the Islamic State a Safe House February 16, 2016  ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – Every villain needs a safe house and the Islamic State (IS) is no exception. Luckily for IS, it has two, possibly three waiting for it, all of them courtesy of NATO and in particular the United States. The war in Syria has been going particularly poor for IS.

February 15, 2016 0

NATO’s Expanding Presence in "Fortress Persian Gulf"

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NATO’s Expanding Presence in "Fortress Persian Gulf" What Are the Possible Consequences of Turkey-Qatar Military Cooperation? February 15, 2016 ( Martin Berger – NEO ) - A short while ago Turkey and Qatar announced that they have an agreement in place to further deepen their military cooperation within the framework of the “ struggle against common enemies “, which implies the construction of two new military bases: a Turkish one in Qatar and a Qatari base in Turkey

February 14, 2016 0

Turkey is the Source, Not Solution to ISIS and the Syrian Crisis

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The images from Aleppo, Idlib and Syria’s border with Turkey can be described in one word: despair. The Guardian’s article, " Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees remain stranded at Turkish border ," claims: Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing a Russian-backed government advance on Aleppo have remained stranded near the Turkish border over the weekend, with no sign that the authorities in Ankara will respond to mounting international pressure to allow in more refugees uprooted by the escalating war.

February 14, 2016 0

Law of the case

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Tweet Scalia’s death might change everything for the Clean Power Plan. Before there appeared to be a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court that was likely ready to overrule the appellate court if the appellate ruling favored the Plan. Now there’s just four, and on a 4-4 split, the appellate ruling would stand.