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Aluminum-based batteries would be cheaper to make, because aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust after oxygen and silicon. Aluminum is also light-weight and could be ideal for use in batteries.

Yet, for years scientists have stumbled in the research about aluminum batteries because they have yet to crack the code of what materials to use for the anode and cathode of the battery so that it could enable efficient energy storage with enough energy content.

Now scientists from Sweden and Slovenia say they have found a way to have efficient aluminum batteries with lower environmental impact and lower production costs.

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I’d likd to have the IRS investigate Chuck Schumer. As a New York Democrat politician, if his closet doesn’t have any skeletons in it, he’ll  be the first in history.

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I guess there are too many poor black babies being born in Illinois to suit the Crust.

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Mr. Diaz’s attitude would, of course have been absolutely inconceivable to members of earlier classes at Yale. Students from humble backgrounds fortunate enough to have been admitted to this elite college in earlier (and better) days thanked their lucky stars at having been given the priceless opportunity to move upward in the world and were only too happy to work hard to earn it.

Unlike Dave, I didn’t have to work while at Yale — because I had spent the previous six years (during the Vietnam War) in the Navy, qualifying for the GI BIll (which covered about a third of it) and saving my money (which covered another third), as well as factory work over the summers. Yale also had (and probably still has) a generous student loan program, so I spent the ten years after I graduated paying off the remaining third.

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More than 132,000 Jews have applied for Spanish citizenship since the government offered residence to relatives of those expelled during the Inquisition more than 500 years ago.

The deadline has now passed for Sephardi Jews – hailing from the Iberian peninsula – to claim rights to citizenship after the window for applications closed.

Most have applied from South America. But in Britain the rules have created an unexpected opportunity for some members of the Jewish community to avoid the impact of Brexit by gaining a European passport.

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If you come across Jonah Goldberg on the road, beat him. He will know why.

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The “Blue Bowl” is a fundraiser for the family of Sgt. Ron Helus, an officer killed in a 2018 mass shooting. But Thousand Oaks Police Chief Tim Hagel decided it wasn’t a go after learning that Republicans had been invited, Los Angeles Fox News affiliate FOX 11 reported Tuesday.

California is turning into a classic one-party totalitarian state. The sooner we get them to secede, the better.

Roger Clegg translates for us.

The judge found, “Race is only intentionally considered as a positive attribute.” But if race is a positive attribute for favored groups, then does it not follow that it is a negative attribute for everyone else?  Well, yes, the judge admits about 100 pages later, “Race conscious admissions will always penalize to some extent groups that are not being advantaged by the process.” So, sure, there is discrimination against Asian Americans, but it is not “undu[e]” or “disproportionate.”

Here’s a sociopolitical reality: If it’s legally accepted that racial discrimination in admissions is permissible if you do A-B-C and do not do 1-2-3, then universities will make those claims. And so the judge here explains at great length why she accepts Harvard’s assertions that its discrimination is narrowly tailored (A-B-C) and that she is persuaded by the school that the discrimination is not anti-Asian (vis-a-vis whites, 1-2-3) but only pro-diversity. She’s wrong, but schools are willing to roll the dice that their bluff won’t be called and that, if it is, they’ll draw a sympathetic judge.

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Silliness keeps erupting from The Washington Post, from the supermarket aisles to the fruit stand. Post writer Maura Judkis wrote an entire article headlined “How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance.”

Judkis began: “If you want to understand how the peach emoji has come to represent both the potential impeachment of President Trump and a butt, you must first look to the ancient Sumerians.”

What are they vaping over there at the Post?

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Explicit racism, thy name is Democrat.

Well, maybe.

In May, the Roman Catholic Church announced that they were opening up their annual exorcism course at the Pontifical University to major Christian denominations, in response to a reported rise in demonic possessions.

Adam Schiff is certainly a prospect. As is Maxine Waters, come to think of it.

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Margaret Atwood’s anti-Christian polemic walks right past the real thing to hit the fashionable piñata.

Of course, that way she gets prizes rather than assassinated. Can’t hardly blame her.

Steve Sailer.

Dreadlocks, by the way, are not a good look on a girl. They are associated with the patriarchal Rastafarians, like the late Bob Marley, who wore dreadlocks to resemble the Lion of Judah with a massive head. As of 2012, about 180 NFL players wore dreadlocks.

So it would hardly be surprising if a sixth-grade girl, or one of her friends, started trying to modify her hairdo, then discovered that cutting your own hair is typically not a good idea, especially in case, if I might speculate, your grandparents might have paid for an expensive dreadlocks weave.

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Thousands of Dutch farmers descended on the Netherlands capital to protest against onerous environmental restrictions that threaten their livelihoods.

The demonstrations were sparked after the coalition government proposed that “Dutch livestock farming should be slashed to meet commitments on reducing nitrogen emissions,” reports Dutch News NL.

Good luck with that.

Steve Sailer.

By the time I get done grilling it, it isn’t red any more.

Problem solved.

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Palma Campania is a municipality in the Naples region of Campania. Immigrants from Bangladesh — who make up a considerable percentage of the municipal populace — are unhappy that the mayor has refused to give them permission to conduct their Islamic prayer services in the street.

Scott Johnson at Power Line does a deep dive.

Federal district court judge Allison Burroughs has upheld Harvard’s racially discriminatory admissions policy in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (embedded below). Long story short: Harvard’s discrimination is all in a good cause. Asian-Americans are only incidental victims and they aren’t treated any more poorly in the process than white students. Harvard doesn’t mean anything invidious by it.

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The principle of equal treatment was adopted as the law of the land in the great civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965, or so we foolishly thought at the time. It may even have been the law for a minute or two. Then the federal government began building the whole edifice of affirmative action and racial preferences that we live with today and that has been addressed by the Supreme Court in a number of important cases. Certainly insofar as higher education is concerned, the affirmative action regime and the treatment of students based on the color of their skin are entrenched more deeply than ever under the shibboleth of “diversity.”

FRENZY: Nets Devote 7 Hours to Trump-Ukraine, Only 46 Minutes to Hunter Biden Sweetheart Deal

Trump’s ‘Civil War’ Quote Tweet Is Actually Grounds for Impeachment, Says Harvard Law Professor I guess Tribe has an understudy.

Why it’s so scary when Trump tweets about civil war  Maybe to CNN.

ABC, CBS Push Claim Trump Is Threatening the Life of ‘Whistleblower’

Four Theories of Impeachment

Kamala Harris: Trump’s ‘Twitter Account Should Be Suspended’  He has to be silenced somehow.

Former Fox News Analyst: Trump Guilty Of ‘Sedition’ For ‘Inciting Violence Against The Legitimate Government’  You can’t make this stuff up.

One theory of impeachment

Liberals Keep Stepping On Rakes In Pursuit Of Trump

Nicolle Wallace’s Ghoulish Group Fantasizes Trump Stabbed, Hit by Car

ABC: Trump Demanding Whistleblower ID Could Be Impeachable Offense  Or maybe not, depending on whether they get any traction with the story.

Joe Scarborough Accuses Trump of Calling for ‘Civil War, Acts of Violence’  No, Joe, that was you.

Maxine Waters Wants Trump ‘Imprisoned’ And ‘Placed In Solitary Confinement’  I want Maxine Waters sedated in a mental institution.

MSNBC Fears ‘Heavily Armed’ Trump Supporters Invading D.C.  To resist the AnitFa thugs.

Not The Onion: CNN’s Baldwin Brings on McCabe to Bash ‘Trump Conspiracies’

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If there is any trend that’s viewed as permanent, it’s the enduring attraction of coastal urban meccas: despite the insane rents and housing costs, that’s where the jobs, the opportunities and the desirable urban culture are.

Nice, but like many other things the status quo considers permanent, this could reverse very quickly, and all those pricey urban meccas could become crime-ridden ghost towns. How could such a reversal occur?

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As western states like New Mexico and Colorado get bluer, they also accumulate more and more red ink. They are on the same road to disaster as California, without California’s advantages.

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Let’s all jump on the next Grievance Train!

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What is, and is not, possible with your friendly household high-frequency radiation emitter.

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As long as they keep getting away with it, they’ll keep doing it.

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The Chicago Police Department is instructing officers to wait for a supervisor to arrive instead of immediately assisting Department of Homeland Security personnel asking for help, according to an internal memo first obtained by Fox News. The memo goes further by also instructing officers to “leave the scene” if the request is related to an immigration arrest.

Shoot one in the leg. That would get their attention.

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Thank you, minimum wage.

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The top secret naval base on Muskö, about 25 miles (40km) from Stockholm, resembles a cross between Tracy Island from Thunderbirds and the film set of You Only Live Twice, where James Bond grappled with arch villain Ernst Blofeld in his headquarters beneath a volcano.

Completed in 1969, it boasts cavernous underground docks that can shelter warships, with miles of tunnels, offices and a hospital.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

In this case, ‘offbeat’ is journo-speak for ‘Why would anyone want to do that?’

ZMan has some bad news.

The underlying assumption is that liberal democracy will work just fine, if we can just get rid of those terrible liberals or go back and correct some mistake from the past. No one ever stops to wonder if maybe those nasty liberals and errors in judgement are a feature of liberal democracy, rather than a defect. Like Marxists or libertarians, the right has worked from the assumption that the right sort of citizen can be conjured or created, in order to make liberal democracy function as intended.

The truth is, the results we see around us, whether it is spasms of radical self-destruction or the suicidal flood of migrants, are all the natural result of liberal democracy. The troubles facing the West are not the result of some defect or shabby operators at the top. This is what you get from liberal democracy. As a wise once man said, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

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For a long time, electric machines have hewed to a standard design, which has had the advantage of being very easy to manufacture. However, our startup, Magnax, based in Belgium, has taken another design that in theory can wring much more power and torque from a given mass and has made it commercially practical. We believe this new design can supplant the old one in many applications, notably in electric vehicles, in which it is now being tested.

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My question is, just why do we have a military base near Mogadishu?

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Americans are increasingly looking outside of the U.S. for retirement and freedom. True believers in the republic are seeing the rising wave of socialist and even communist policies being championed on the right. There seems to be no resistance to the increasingly hysterical demands of the environmentalists. The passing of the Patriot Act nearly two decades ago has proven to be as radical and damaging to individual liberty and privacy as it was feared and discounted by government officials as “conspiracy theory.”

Anti-Trump Republicans do not recognize their role in his election. If there had been one solid line of resistance against Barack Obama’s policies, that was not ultimately compromised, Trump would not have been elected. If a candidate like Jeb Bush had been seen as anything other than Democrat-lite, he would have won the nomination.