“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
As noted earlier this week in the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer, the long read of the week was an excellent bit of analysis on the decline, fall, and collapse of the Western world by Gaius Baltar, featured at Larry Johnson’s SONAR21 blog. As Mr. Baltar pointed...
There is a lot one can say about D-Day – the courage, the heroism, the terrible hardships endured by those men on the landing craft as they waited to storm the beaches of Normandy. There was every possible chance it could all have gone very, very badly wrong. In...
That graph you see above shows the share of the two most powerful economic cooperation blocs on Earth. The G7 consists of the US, UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Back when it was the G8, it included Russia, but then, after Russia annexed Crimea and...
Dr. James Tour’s name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known problems with Origin-of-Life (OoL) research. Dr. Tour is a...
Note: the following post is an expansion of a series of lengthy comments that I made on my Telegram channel earlier today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference wrapped up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (not Astana, Kazakhstan, which is what I mistakenly...
The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...
You all know what today is. You all remember where you were, 21 years ago today. Think about that span of time carefully. If your child was born in that year, that same child would already have passed the ages of maturity for driving, voting, and drinking in the...
If you’ve never come across one Sam Vaknin before, I assure you, it is worth your time to go and look him up. He is an extraordinarily brilliant man – his IQ is apparently somewhere around 180 (or so he says). He did a PhD thesis about – and I wish I...
The good people over at Visual Capitalist recently released a big-ass graphic that has been making the rounds of late, to mark the fact that the global economy hit US$100 TRILLION in terms of total annual output. This is an amazing feat and a great milestone, to be...
There was a robust discussion the other day on my Telegram channel about whether or not democracy is desirable. You can read the chat for yourself, I won’t go into the full details here. Suffice to say that I got rather annoyed by certain attempts to go off...
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