The main reason I joined Facebook was to interact with others who shared my vocation and avocation, Electronics. It’s been a part of my life since I was very young. More than five years ago I joined several FB groups dealing with Electronics. During those years I have been banned from several groups not because
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Interview (by Zoom) of William Shatner https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/william-shatner-interview-star-trek-captain-kirk-441311/amp The UnXplained is on Sky History Tuesday 2020 June 9 at 9 PM. Quote from article <<Shatner thinks that part of the appeal of Star Trek is that it shows humans as alive and kicking in 300 years’ time. He is not entirely convinced, though and becomes most
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I’m reading ’The Gene’ by Siddharta Mukherjee, an excellent book about how we are made — what makes us. I read the following paragraphs and it occurred to me that people don’t understand the importance of this. ******************* p.196 “The geneticist Antoine Danchin once used the parable of the Delphic boat to describe the process
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Also FB group Vintage Transistor Radios Collecting novelty transistor radios has a few drawbacks, the most obvious is that they are much rarer than regular transistor radios. Generally the new novelty transistor radios are much more expensive then a regular radio due to their limited production. The customer who just wants a radio is going
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From FB comment Mar 24 Steven Hamre The overall population, journalists included, hate what Trump does, not who he is. You can go to Real Clear Politics and see multiple approval surveys that prove beyond doubt that approval of his actions have almost never been above 50% and most of the time hover around 40
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Also posted to CleanTechnica comment to article with “amirite” in title on Mar 14 The world needs to ‘catch up’ by ending use of fossil fuels ASAP, and substituting hydrogen in their place. If we don’t, that 1.5 degree warming goal will be overshot, and things will be exceedingly difficult. The renewables generated hydrogen can
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In China, industries burned coal and people burned coal for cooking and heating. In cities like Beijing the air pollution was so bad that it was hard to see the stop lights and pedestrians had to wear facemasks. The pollution killed estimated millions of people with lung problems. China realized this and has done a
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Why are Costco, Target, etc. running out of toilet paper? Are people using it for facemasks? Are they using it instead of kleenex? Very strange. Time Magazine has an article about how the US healthcare system is not good for preventing the Coronavirus epidemic. More than 150 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in
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We went out to Hennessey’s in downtown San Juan Capistrano, and I talked to a guy who is waiting on a list for a kidney. In the meantime he goes to a dialysis center for treatment three times a week for four hours, brings his laptop and watches movies. It costs his insurance $7,400.00 per
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This false claim is being spread around the Web by conspiracy theorists, one being David Icke. There has never been any evidence linking the two. Be aware that these articles use pseudoscientific terms that attempt to make the reader believe the claims are based in fact, but they’re not. Don’t be tempted to go over
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