Hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth, a fact that virtually explodes into life in the photo here.
It can be refined into a variety of items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed.
It’s hard to count all the ways in which the environment can be improved by making our commercial and industrial products with hemp, rather than trees, petroleum, etc.
This is what a city in China looks like after receiving eight months of rain in five days, viewed through a few hundred feet of air pollution.
A catastrophe, to be sure. The real problem, however, is that disasters like this are occurring with ever-increasing frequency. This is another once in 1000 years event–the third within a month.
Here’s an update on the prosecution of the January 6th insurrectionists. Predictably, it centers around plea bargains from mid-tier members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, clearly focused on nailing the top of the food chain in these traitorous organizations.
We’re still looking for any evidence whatsoever that “Antifa” or BLM had some involvement here, as Trump supporters continue to claim.
A few years ago, I asked a wealthy friend if he had any good investment ideas. He told me that the private equity firm Colony Capital had tripled his money in a fairly short period of time. I looked into this and learned immediately that its founder, Thomas Barrack, is a fund raiser and close confidante to Donald Trump. I thanked my friend, but explained that, on moral grounds, I would not be moving forward. (more…)
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based.
Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades earlier. His epiphany that light behaves either like a wave or a particle, depending on how it is observed, paved the way for most of the technology that makes our lives what they are today. Everything that fits in the category of electronics depends at its core on an understanding of quantum mechanics.
As suggested in the photography here, being the first person to understand how completely bizarre the physical universe really is led Planck to take on a far less conformist demeanor. Who can blame him?
Sure, Hannity was forced to say this, and yes, there would be a great number of people still alive today had he and the others made this statement in March of 2020.
But wait a ding dong minute. If Fox doesn’t stand for hateful, destructive anti-science bull****, what’s its purpose in our media mix?
Viewers aren’t going to stand for this.
This fellow’s proposition is tough to refute.
So much cruelty, or, at best, indifference to the suffering of the people who support you.
Just nauseating.
It’s never a bad time to be reminded that we all share a responsibility to one another, insofar as we have been given this fabulous opportunity to keep our planet safe from environmental destruction.
General Mark Milley
My politically conservative mother asked me to read this article by historian and author Victor Hanson, which I did. I have to say that I wasn’t too impressed; it’s just the normal conservative litany of observations that we hear on Fox News and Newsmax. I had expected much more rigor in defense of his beliefs, rather than a simple statement of the beliefs themselves, as follows: (more…)
Obviously, American society has lost a few steps over the past five years when it comes to common sense and discernment of truth. A good example of this is the right’s perception of Joe Biden, a centrist Democrat, as a radical liberal. His policies are essentially indistinguishable from those of Obama.
One interesting thing that is happening now, however, is that Biden seems to be succeeding where Obama failed. Case in point: the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, something that Obama spent eight frustrating years trying to close.
As noted here, this affront to justice and decency may be on its way to closure.
