As Mark Shields said, Congress should restore the Voting Rights Act that was damaged by the SCOTUS in 2013. Renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the late John Lewis’ name is far too little, John Lewis deserved more. Don’t weep for John Lewis’ passing, weep for the tangled mess he left behind.
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2020-07-23 8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/24/2020-election-disaster-perfect-storm-372778#6 <<
2020-07-21 The Throwaway Society – It Has To Stop
<< This month we learned that $10bn-worth of precious metals, such as gold and platinum, are dumped in landfill every year, embedded in tens of millions of tonnes of lesser materials, in the form of electronic waste. The world’s production of e-waste is rising by 4% a year. It is driven by another outlandish norm:
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2020-07-19 Air Pollution Deadlier Than CoViD19
What is the Number One, absolutely most important thing in your life at this very second? Without it, you will die in a few minutes? It’s the air you breathe, the one fifth of that air, the oxygen you need to keep you alive. This article from March, 2019 is serious. Toxic air is killing
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2020-07-16 Nuclear Power Plants, Flamanville NPP
From my comment and replies on JHAT … Thank you, Dave, for the balanced and informative view. But I must bring up the “externalities” that almost every nuclear power proponent fails to address. One of the reasons why the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal, has to end is that the mining, processing and transportation
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2020-07-14 Comet Neowise; Neutrino Article
You can go out to the desert to see the comet Neowise. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/13/how-to-see-comet-neowise-earths-most-spectacular-comet-since-2007/amp/ Good article about the history of the neutrino https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/14/how-massive-neutrinos-broke-the-standard-model/amp/ << When all the data was combined, a single picture emerged: neutrinos do have non-zero mass, but the masses are extremely tiny; it would take more than 4 million of the heaviest flavor
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2020-07-10 Bird Chirp Circuit Additions, Thoughts…
See my previous blog. The circuit runs off a photovoltaic cell that puts out approximately 3.85 volts during a sunny day. The chirps put a small load during the noises and the voltage changes very little, maybe .03 volt. I think the photovoltaic cell could drive a few LEDs without any problem. I thought it
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2020-07-09 Chirping Bird Circuit
I found this circuit at 5 or 6 different websites, all identical except some were in color, others not. The schematic and part values were all the same. I didn’t have a 1k CT to 8 ohm transformer (Radio Shack 273-1380) so instead I used a transformer with four 600 ohm windings and I tied
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2020-07-08 SCOTUS: Employers Health Plans No Longer Have To Pay For Contraceptives
The Supreme Court decided against the Obamacare law requiring employers’ health plans to pay for birth control. The employer must have religious or moral objections to birth control. This is not a major victory for Trumpism because the employee can find a job somewhere that doesn’t have an objection. There is the “externalities” or unintended
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2020-07-01 Covid Age Calculator; VR Demo How SARS Binds To ACE2
Watch the YouTube video (link below) and go to the link in the description and fill out the Covid age calculator. This is an excellent way to determine risk. https://youtu.be/XIEmvEQzAf4 This amazing and informative 3D Virtual Reality Demonstration of how the SARS virus’ spikes bind to the ACE2 receptor on the epithelial cells. He also
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