Sunday, July 19

Chilling Out in the Dog Days of Summer

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Then there's always Yoga   But what do dogs and cats know I'll be back the first day the temperature here in Washington...

In America, a flight from the cities

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1968 "Nathan La Franeer" by  Joni Mitchell I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a com...
Monday, July 13

Covid Era: U.S. Food companies scramble to ramp up depleted inventories

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"Flour has remained particularly hard to come by, as a surge in home baking caught the sleepy industry off guard. Sales of baking ingre...
Sunday, July 12

From the ashes of failure, a world-changing triumph

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"Reij, Garrity and other scientists working on the ground knew what Wade and other political leaders did not: that farmers in Niger and...
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Now more than ever, "Take it easy policy"

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A.R. Rahman's remake of  Urvasi Urvasi,  which uses crowdsourced lyrics, is still as relevant today as when it was released in 2017. ...
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Tuesday, July 7

How to de-escalate a potentially violent situation

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This is about dealing with one-on-one situations that arise 'spontaneously,' without pre-planning. The kind of situations that are o...
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Monday, July 6

"After deadly clash with India, Beijing asserts right to territory in Bhutan"

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China took a somewhat more forceful tone, emphasizing that it would “continue to vigorously defend its own territorial sovereignty and main...

"FDA warns of 5 more hand sanitizers to avoid, growing list to 14"

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MAKE SURE TO READ THE LABEL . Methanol is very toxic, so what kind of people would put it in a hand sanitizer isn't even a question.  ...
Saturday, July 4

Yorktown wasn't actually the decisive battle of the War of Independence

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"A veritable hydra of resistance." Limping, asthmatic Patriot General Nathanael  Greene The Battle of Yorktown, f...
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I'm so glad those Awful White Men overthrew the British overlords

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The jawdropper is that it only took them seven years to do it. It was touch-and-go during those years, and it can be argued that without hel...
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Friday, July 3

Three entries at Sputnik's Photo Gallery for week of 6/27 - 7/3

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© AP PHOTO / GYORGY VARGA / MTI. The photograph was taken in Nagykanizsa, Hungary but I think it well conveys the mood in many societies...

Top Two T-Shirt Messages in 2021

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#2 Message: I SURVIVED 2020 #1 Message: shut up *********
Thursday, July 2

Scanning city sewers for early signs of a disease outbreak

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This is an idea whose time has come; although it's not completely new it's being taken up to a new level, prodded on by the Covid p...
Wednesday, July 1

What a cold fury looks like

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Humans have become so socialized that rarely do our facial expressions fully reveal primitive complex emotions when we're dealing wit...

How Wei Ying Luo dealt with slanderers. Russian government take notes.

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Watch from the 27:25 minute mark. (Click on YouTube's "CC" to get English translation if English text doesn't show immedia...
Saturday, June 27

"Covid-19 was in Spanish sewage as early as MARCH 2019, study claims"

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June 26, 2020 - 23:23 RT Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in Barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the ...
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Friday, June 26

India increases troop deployment to contested border

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I don't know whether the Indian press has reported the numbers.   India and China deployed in 'large numbers' in border sh...