The Safety Belt of Our Solar System – Issue 107: The Edge

David McComas has a favorite “astrosphere,” the environment created by a star’s stellar wind as it buffets the surrounding interstellar medium. It belongs to a star named Mira. In an image from 2006, Mira is heading to the right, at 291,000 miles an hour, five times the speed our sun ambles through its local interstellar… Continue reading The Safety Belt of Our Solar System – Issue 107: The Edge

Boosting Vaccine Acceptance, Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap

We discuss what needs to be done to ensure more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19; Afghanistan’s worsening refugee crisis; understanding environmental racism; how political polarization may affect health insurance purchasing decisions; helping extremists find pathways to deradicalization; and lessons from past wars in Afghanistan. Photo by valentinrussanov/Getty Images Vaccine hesitancy remains a serious obstacle to… Continue reading Boosting Vaccine Acceptance, Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap

Most Trump Supporters Agree It’s ‘Time To Split The Country’: Poll

A new poll from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia reveals that 52% of Trump voters and 41% of Biden voters ‘at least somewhat agree’ that red and blue states should secede from the union, splitting the country. Via Mediaite: The idea that the nation’s political divide has become so toxic that… Continue reading Most Trump Supporters Agree It’s ‘Time To Split The Country’: Poll

The Bible and the Great Flood (Noah’s Ark, Rainbows, Genesis, Faith)

Podcast: Download MYS175: Genesis records that God sent the Great Flood to wipe out mankind because of sinfulness, but that he preserved Noah, his family, and pairs of every animal in an ark. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the questions of whether Noah was a real person, was the flood worldwide, and more.… Continue reading The Bible and the Great Flood (Noah’s Ark, Rainbows, Genesis, Faith)

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Day Trading With a Large Account vs. Small Account

  Every trader knows what it’s like to trade with a small amount of capital. Whether to them that’s $100 or $10,000, most traders find themselves thinking that if they just had X amount of capital, many of their trading troubles would go away. To an extent, trading a large account does grind away some… Continue reading Day Trading With a Large Account vs. Small Account

Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens

If you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange eight queens on a board so that none of them are attacking each other. If you succeed once, can you find a second arrangement? A third? How many are there? This challenge is over 150 years old. It is the earliest… Continue reading Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens

PSYOP Regimental Blog

  The Shoemaker’s Children Are Barefoot – or who counter’s enemy influence on the US military? A number of publications including the prestigious www.foreignpolicy.com reported on October 21, 2021 that the “U.S. Army Failed to Warn Troops About COVID-19 Disinformation” ( see: https://bit.ly/3vDwnsJ which is also a photo source) According to the article close to… Continue reading PSYOP Regimental Blog

St. Benedict and Obedience – SpiritualDirection.com

“Listen carefully, my child, to the master’s instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart. This is advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.” So begins The Rule of Saint Benedict, one of the most enduring spiritual works of all time. Consisting merely of… Continue reading St. Benedict and Obedience – SpiritualDirection.com

Liberal Justice Sotomayor Rejects NYC Teachers’ Pro-Choice Vaccine Plea

Update (2000ET): This is going to take some serious cognitive dissonance – the most pro-choice of Supreme Court Justices just refused to block NYC’s teachers’ vaccine mandate that stands in direct contradiction of the ‘my body, my choice’ doctrine when it comes to medical intervention. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor – who is responsible for emergency matters… Continue reading Liberal Justice Sotomayor Rejects NYC Teachers’ Pro-Choice Vaccine Plea