From Slate, but mentioned in “Facebook” by S. Levy, Clown Show chapter. https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-experiment-it-made-news-feeds-happier-or-sadder-to-manipulate-peoples-emotions.html
Archive for July, 2020:
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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2020-07-18 San Onofre Nuclear Waste Article
Where to store nuclear waste for ten thousand years. https://www.theinertia.com/surf/san-onofre-nuclear-waste-dilemma-national-emergency/ Information about Community Engagement meetings
2020-07-17 Social Media Censors Government
My reply to this commentary https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/16/social_media_censors_government_–_muzzling_democracy_itself_143727.html This author seems to believe that the social media are censoring mostly the conservative Right. I don’t understand how the conservatives think they’re being singled out. The social media have rules that apply equally to anyone, not just the conservatives. The social media use artificial intelligence algorithms to filter
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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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2020-07-15 RVAT – Republican Voters Against Trump; Trump’s 19+ Lies
Blimey! They may get rid of him. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/14/trump-republican-voters-who-changed-their-mind << “One thing we found is that the cultural aspect played a big role in [the 2016 election],” she says. “You’d get women who’d say ‘I voted for him and I cried,’ or, ‘I voted for him and then I had to take a shower afterwards’. >>
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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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2020-07-13 Wind Power Article, Hydrogen Article – Oilprice.com
Oilprice.com article https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Wind-Is-Emerging-As-A-Leader-In-The-Renewable-Race.amp.html Quote << “We have reached an important turning point in the energy transition. The case for new and much of the existing coal power generation, is both environmentally and economically unjustifiable,” said the director-general of IRENA, Francesco La Camera, commenting on the agency’s latest report. “Renewable energy is increasingly the cheapest source
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2020-07-12 The Secret Reasons Why Nuclear Power Is Not Viable
From the comment I left at Dave’s JHAT YouTube video https://youtu.be/yofGtxEgpI8 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,
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2020-07-12 The Safire Project
I happened to find this website for a nuclear fusion research project that makes claims about getting more energy output than it puts in. They talk about an artificial sun on earth. I have read about some amateur experimenters making a cold fusion system on a small laboratory scale, and this Safire Project seems to
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