Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
This is a good article on the real effects of all the marijuana legalization. It’s a long read, but shows that major media are getting the message that the Wild West of Wide Open Marijuana Legalization was just possibly a terrible idea.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-s-invisible-pot-addicts
A PROFESSOR is facing the sack after using “feminist buzzwords” to get an entire passage from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” published in an academic journal.
Peter Boghossian helped create a series of spoof academic papers to satirise a number of fields including what he describes as the “grievance studies” – including fields on gender, obesity and homosexuality.
The assistant philosophy professor at Portland State University in Oregon penned a total of 20 “intentionally broken” and “nonsense” papers with the help of two collaborators.
Each of one was deliberately ridiculous – but astonishingly seven were accepted by peer-reviewed journals, The Times reports.
Tom: I must save this link for individuals who reject direct observation and ask for peer reviewed studies!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8161194/professor-uses-feminist-buzzwords-hitler-mein-jampf-published/
Chris Kirckof posted:
“So let me get this straight about this virus
It’s ‘new’ yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 2003).
The patent expired today, on the day the first case is announced in the US.
The patent also tells us the CDC helped make this! “This invention was made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the United States Government. Therefore, the U.S. Government has certain rights in this invention.”
And now magically a vaccine is in the works for it already? Yet the patent in 2015 already references a vaccine for it.
But what do I know? I’m just a conspiracy theorist.”
Researchers from the University of California Berkeley have identified 52 edible weeds growing in abundance in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco, surrounded by busy roads and industrial zones.
At least six of them are more nutritious than kale, according to a new study.
The three low-income neighborhoods the researchers studied have been classified as “urban food deserts” — meaning they are more than a mile from the nearest shop that sells fresh produce.
Of the 52 species of wild-growing “weeds” they found, they tested six for nutrition content:
Chickweed
Dandelion
Dock
Mallow
Nasturtium
Oxalis
All six were more nutritious, by most accounts, than kale – arguably the most nutritious domesticated leafy greens.
The weeds boasted more dietary fiber, protein, vitamin A, calcium, iron, vitamin K, and provided more energy.
Tom: Given from where they were sourced I would have liked them to do toxin testing too!
Go you tigers, take on the world!
(But watch out for Magpies come September!)
Quietly tucked away in Canberra, Australia, is one of the world’s most influential astronomers right now.
Lisa Kewley has been awarded the James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Science in recognition of her work’s impact on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved over the past 12 billion years.
Her pioneering research in theoretical modelling sheds light on power sources for galaxies, what happens when they collide, the history of stars forming, and how oxygen is distributed throughout the Universe.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/australian-astronomer-wins-major-us-science-award
A great reminder of what government is capable of and the appropriate response if it comes to that.
But of course, if it comes to that, not enough action was taken early enough to prevent it.
Best we get busy spreading truth and hope to those who would otherwise follow this insanity.
https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/09/communists-family-soviet-gulags/
Not a good cook, not a good look, 700 worms!
Article takeaways:
Don’t undercook your pork!
Or eschew it!
And wash your hands after going to the loo!
This article is a must read! Biographical Note: Dr David Kear has a background in geology and engineering, becoming the Director General of the DSIR (New Zealand’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) in 1980. He is a Fellow and Past Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Past President of the New Zealand Geological Society. Dr Kear has over 100 publications on New Zealand and Pacific geology, vulcanology and mineral resources. He has been publishing on sea-levels since the 1950s.
The page has a collection of quotes and videos it is worth watcing.