Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
View the original here: US War on Iran Takes Bizarre Turn
and then TonyLearns shows the other side now But Mosher says Tamino is a(an almost) complete incompetent. Isn’t that a devastating rebuttal? Then I read Judith post of Tamino and arctic temps.
Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs chimes in on the US education system in an interview with Nick Gillespie on Reason.Com . click on above link if video does not play Rowe : If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit. Gillespie : We are doing everything we can to push every kid to go to a four-year college.
In the preceding post Eli pointed en passant to an article by EO Wilson where he let the cat out of the bag For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how can you do serious work in the sciences? Well, I have a professional secret to share: Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semi-literate
This one was new to me : Fresh off a wave of success in the state Capitol last year, animal welfare groups are taking aim at a new target this year: hunting with lead ammunition. The Humane Society, Audubon California and Defenders of Wildlife are behind a major push to make California the first state to ban lead ammunition for all types of hunting…. ….environmentalists say a statewide ban is needed because overwhelming scientific evidence shows condors, bald eagles and other birds are still dying from lead poisoning when they eat dead deer and other animals shot by hunters…. “These people want to ban hunting
Italian PM Under Fire; Italy’s 3rd Largest Bank Hid Derivative Losses: ECB Says "Matter for the Italian Authorities" (To Sweep Under the Rug) When Mario Draghi (now ECB President), had oversight of the Italian bank system as Bank of Italy Governor, the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Italy’s third largest bank) hid information on the derivatives transactions between 2006 and 2009. This information is just now out, and shares of the bank have plunged 22% in a few days