Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser is author of CONVENIENT MYTHS, the green revolution – perceptions, politics, and facts Convenient Myths
As you may know, there is a great push by man to settle the Moon. As reported, NASA just awarded a $78 million contract "for Intuitive Machines [a private U.S. company] to develop, launch and land its Nova-C spacecraft on the lunar surface with a payload of NASA and private experiments."
Are you ready to evolve?
As Fox News reports, once man (and woman, I presume) have become settled on Mars, evolution to super-mutant Marslings (or similar) is inevitable.
Not very long ago, written communications were in the form of postal mail, like letters to your love, postcards to everyone else, and so on. The Universal Postal Union, established by the Treaty of Bern of 1874, agreed to and ratified by nearly all countries in the world, is an expeditious system of moving the mountains of mail coming and going, across the entire globe.
One vital principle of that system was (and still is) proper postage. Initially, the postage stamps just depicted renditions of the ruler of the day, in different colors for the different postage rates. But, after a while, the postal services discovered that the little stamps could be made more meaningful by having pictures that were more relevant to the day.
Yew bushes are quite common in gardens as ornamental shrubs and hedges. They are liked for being hardy, and soil and moisture tolerant evergreens. In addition, the have nice red berries in the fall.
Please note: the orange/red juicy fruits are quite palatable but have poisonous seeds in the center. Their poison was already known two millennia ago (Taxus baccata) and appeared to be the choice of soldiers to die when not wanting to fall alive into the hands of the enemy.
Dear Readers,
Relax, this is not going to be a heavy-duty chemical lecture!
As you may have read in the news, the herbicide Roundup™ inventing company Monsanto had been bought by the company that invented the medicinal compound Aspirin™ , i.e. the Bayer AG, back in 2018. Roundup is said to be the world's most widely used herbicide.
Have you noticed, "Anomalies" are the new grand evil culprits, of everything gone wrong, anywhere?
Dictionaries describe the term like "something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected." I guess that could mean anything, like (not) arriving on time at your destination, or having a bout of hiccups.
One of the latest outfits not doing so well is Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) of Monroe Township, NJ, USA. According to its website ( [url=https://oceanpowertechnologies.gcs-web.com/]https://oceanpowertechnologies.gcs-web.com/[/url] ), it "is a pioneer in renewable wave-energy technology that converts ocean wave energy into electricity" and they have several patents to prove it.
It’s nothing new. Landfill sites are filling up, faster than ever, with all kinds of debris. Just about everywhere.
How did it come to that? Blame the “Greens” and the “Authorities.”
Why, you ask? The answer lies in the decomposition times for various items in your garbage-to-be-deposed-of. As they vary from a few years to millions of years, known as eons, the landfill sites keep filling up.
Firefighting used to be simple. In the olden days, water was all that was needed and (hopefully) available as required. Once structures came with charged electrical wires, water was no longer the material of choice. You might extinguish a small fire and electrocute yourself in the process.
According to Merriam, as in Webster, the term "to jury-rig" means "to erect, construct, or arrange in a makeshift fashion" a temporary device to help you out in a pinch when there are no better alternatives available.
Not only that, the time is getting shorter and--if you believe it--can now even be reversed.
So, if you remember the date--and scroll back to that specific time window -- when your hammer hit your thumb instead of the nail, you ought to no longer feel any pain.
Perhaps, it's a bit of extrapolation on my part; I don't even know. After all, the headline says:
This is a follow-up to my recent post on “5G Wireless Broadband and how (not) to Boil Eggs.”
As I had tried to point out, there is a one-plus order of magnitude difference in the photon (electromagnetic wave, EM) energy between the current 4G communication (4G) and the proposed 5G systems (5G).
The new 5G wireless broadband technology that is said to be rolled out soon for wireless communication everywhere has some people concerned about potential health effects.
In my perception, that concern is not without thought -- and not only for human health reasons.
In order to understand why, one has to review not just the numerous studies done about the safety of the current (4G) technology but also the technology of microwave ovens and traditional ways of cooking. Let's begin with the latter.
As Newsmax reported, the magnetic North Pole is wandering towards Siberia at an increasing speed, currently in the order of 35 miles per annum.
Just when you had been thinking of following your compass until you see some polar bears in northern Canada, the magnetic North Pole shifted again. And if the pundits are right, it may just take a few more decades to point you right towards Siberia. Clearly, that’s intolerable.
What is NORAD going to do about that?
The news is about day and night, especially the latter.
BONJOUR, i.e. the company Téo Taxi, a new kind of taxi service in Montreal, Quebec, with the common French term for "Hello" ("Bonjour"), literally meaning "GOOD DAY" on its cars has shut down operation. Just when demand was rising due the cold temperatures in the city.
Dear Cousin Wiarton Willie,
Many thanks for your delightful letter from last year--how time has been flying.
Phillina and our offspring are all fine, eagerly awaiting the onset of spring. As you may have read in the news, we've recently had some bitterly cold temperatures here lately. I guess that it was not any warmer in Canada.
As the big German daily Die Zeit reports, the Intl. Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks that global growth will slow to 3.5% this year, down from 3.7% forecast a few months ago (imf.org ).
What a disaster; it ought to put a crimp on the assembled economic and political leaders' annual confustications at the World Economic Forum (WEF) secretive meeting at Davos (Switzerland) this week. As participation is by invitation only and all speeches and discussions are strictly following the Chatham House Rules and hence are not made public, who knows what the future holds--not that any meaningful summary has ever been communicated from that "skiing-fest" in the Swiss Alps.