New Number Systems Point Geometry Problem Toward a Real Solution

The Kakeya conjecture sounds like a brain teaser. Place a needle flat on a table. How much area do you need in order to be able to turn it so that it points in all possible directions? The most obvious possible answer is a circle whose diameter is the length of the needle. But this… Continue reading New Number Systems Point Geometry Problem Toward a Real Solution

Ukraine Furious At Turkey For Allowing Passage Of Russian Ship Full Of “Stolen Grain”

Ukraine has lashed out at Turkey and is currently demanding answers over a Russian-flagged cargo ship that was allowed to pass through straits controlled by the Turkish government as it sailed out of the Black Sea. Ukraine alleges the vessel was full of stolen Ukrainian grain, while Moscow has dismissed the reports as false. Ukraine… Continue reading Ukraine Furious At Turkey For Allowing Passage Of Russian Ship Full Of “Stolen Grain”

Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling

One of the longest-standing questions in biology is how a living thing that starts as an embryonic blob of uniform cells morphs over time into an organism with diverse tissues, each with its own unique pattern and characteristics. The answer would explain how a leopard gets its spots, a zebra gets its stripes, trees get… Continue reading Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling

Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

With a growing number of people realizing that the Biden administration has drained more oil from the US strategic petroleum reserve, which is meant to be used during real emergencies not fake, made up ones such as Democrats facing a catastrophic failure at the midterm elections… … more people are starting to ask the next… Continue reading Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined

Conserved physical quantities should not vary, or appear to do so, based on how we choose to label things. That was the situation that Chen, Wang, Wang, and Yau hoped to rectify. Starting with their 2015 definition of quasilocal angular momentum, they computed the angular momentum contained within a region of finite radius. Then they… Continue reading Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined

Big Tech Isn’t Woke… It’s Totalitarian

Authored by Michael Senger via ‘The New Normal’ Substack, In the mid-18th century, a secretive political group began spreading dangerous conspiracy theories throughout Britain’s colonies. British subjects had long enjoyed the freedom of expression, but these radicals abused novel communication platforms to churn out seditious literature not often grounded in fact, even resorting to threats and violence that… Continue reading Big Tech Isn’t Woke… It’s Totalitarian

Biden Administration Should Take Secretary Blinken Seriously

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s major foreign policy speech about the China challenge delivered May 26 at George Washington University – notable for what it stressed, obscured, and omitted – deserves more attention than it has received. So too does the gap between the speech’s call for action and the Biden administration’s foreign policy in… Continue reading Biden Administration Should Take Secretary Blinken Seriously

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Don’t Give Up on Facts

In November 2020, the GOP tweeted a C-SPAN clip of Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell saying, “President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it.” It was retweeted over 22,000 times and still hasn’t been deleted. Powell’s claim, of course, was not true. Biden officially won the election. Currently the Select Committee… Continue reading Don’t Give Up on Facts