Archive for November, 2019
30th November 2019
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30th November 2019
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30th November 2019
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By selectively extracting wood’s lignin—the substance that makes up its cell walls—and replacing it with a specific type of polymer, it becomes a new material. ‘(This wood) is weather-proof, more fire resistant, three to five times stronger, and transparent,” Boitouzet said.
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30th November 2019
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Methanol is used in a variety of products, including antifreeze, paint thinners, and glass cleaners. It is also used to produce biodiesel fuel, plastics, plywood, and permanent-press clothing.
Yale researchers developed a catalyst that converts carbon dioxide and water into methanol using electricity. It’s a type of catalyst called a heterogeneous molecular electrocatalyst—”heterogeneous” because it’s a solid catalyst material operating in a liquid electrolyte, and “molecular” because the active site of the catalyst is a molecular structure.
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30th November 2019
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Multiple historians slammed The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” calling the reframing of history false and disturbing, as others are pushing for it to continue being added into public school curriculum.
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30th November 2019
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A very good reason to avoid Philadelphia.
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30th November 2019
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30th November 2019
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I have some more puzzling questions:
Why does Joy Behar still have a job?
Why does Fredo Cuomo still have a job?
Why does Rachel Madow still have a job?
Why does Brian Stelter still have a job?
Why does Adam Schiff still have a job?
Why does Jerry Nadler still have a job?
Why does Maxine Waters still have a job?
Why does Alcee Hastings still have a job?
Why does Sheila Jackson Lee still have a job?
Why does Nancy Pelosi still have a job?
Why does Chuck Schumer still have a job?
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30th November 2019
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Hey, grow up in a Communist country, you think like a Communist. Duh.
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30th November 2019
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30th November 2019
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Liberals are trying to rewrite American history, teaching our children that the only thing that ever happened here–until they came along a year or two ago!–was slavery. The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which is being enthusiastically adopted by the nation’s public schools, is the culmination of years of left-wing propaganda. The liberals’ task is made easier by the fact that world history is mostly terra incognita to America’s young people. Thus, there is little fear of anyone putting American slavery into a global, historical context. But let’s do it anyway.
Saudi Arabia had slavery until the 1960s, yet you never see “slavery” and “Muslim” used together.
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30th November 2019
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The metal, found in 2017, contradicts something called the Wiedemann-Franz Law, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly.
But a team in the US showed this isn’t the case for metallic vanadium dioxide (VO2) – a material that’s already well known for its strange ability to switch from a see-through insulator to a conductive metal at the temperature of 67 degrees Celsius (152 degrees Fahrenheit).
One of the problems of portable electronic devices, such as phones and laptops, is heat management.
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30th November 2019
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Most generation systems suffer outages during extreme weather, but most of those involved fossil fuel systems. Coal stacks are frozen and diesel generators simply can’t function in such low temperatures. Gas chokes up – its pipelines can’t keep up with demand – and prices skyrocket.
Wind also suffers because the hottest and coldest months are usually the least windy.
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29th November 2019
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29th November 2019
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I remember when coins actually had silver in them. You can look it up.
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29th November 2019
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No, but you soon be replaced by robots if you keep rubbing management’s noses in why they would rather manage machines than people.
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29th November 2019
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This could only happen on MSNBC. Wednesday night, lefty documentary filmmaker Michael Moore came on The Last Word to share his advice on how liberals can change the hearts and minds of their “bigoted” Republican family members. His winning strategy? Convince them why big government is your friend, not your enemy!
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29th November 2019
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29th November 2019
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28th November 2019
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28th November 2019
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28th November 2019
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Abdel Abdellaoui and colleagues recent put out a paper on genetics and social stratification in Great Britain. Among other things, they found that polygenic scores of educational attainment were lower in seriously economically depressed areas, such as coal mining towns – and that this depression has increased with time. The smarter people are going where the better paying jobs are.
Perhaps this is why inner city IQs never get any better.
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28th November 2019
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Barnum was right.
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28th November 2019
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And who could blame them?
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28th November 2019
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The California DMV has been selling the personal information of registered drivers to the tune of $50 million per year, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard.
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28th November 2019
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Sure, let’s impeach him for being successful.
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28th November 2019
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The keyboard warriors have returned for Ricky Gervais’ soul this week on account of him being a politically incorrect mischief maker. The British comedian and creator of The Office is still reaping the woke hatred from criticizing trans activist Jessica Yaniv on Twitter, with Indiewire’s Libby Hill outraged over the fact that he still gets to host the upcoming Golden Globes.
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28th November 2019
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What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?
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28th November 2019
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27th November 2019
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27th November 2019
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27th November 2019
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The most fun thing about being a billionaire is the ability to create headaches for the ones you leave behind after you check out.
(Well, I would have fun….)
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27th November 2019
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Dodging the IRS is THE Great American Sport.
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27th November 2019
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The DNA of a single cell is two to three meters long end-to-end. To fit in the nucleus and function correctly, DNA is packaged around specialized proteins. These DNA-protein complexes are called nucleosomes, and they are a small part of a larger structure called chromatin. Nucleosomes can be thought of as the cell’s DNA storage and protection unit.
When a particular gene needs to be expressed, the cell requires access to the protected DNA within chromatin. This means that the chromatin structure must be opened and the nucleosomes must be removed to expose the underlying target gene.
This takes place in the orchestrated process of chromatin remodeling, which regulates gene expression and involves a multitude of actors. Unravelling this pivotal step would contribute to the development of genetic engineering tools.
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27th November 2019
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New insights into the process of DNA looping have changed old perspectives about how the genome is organized within cells. Discoveries by IMP researchers have now elucidated a fundamental mechanism of life and settle a decade-long scientific dispute.
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27th November 2019
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Wrinkles on the skin of a microscopic worm might provide the key to a longer, healthier life for humans.
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27th November 2019
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I read cook books all the time, and I see mention of beef stock, chicken stock, and vegetable stock, but I never see any mention of pork stock.
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27th November 2019
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
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27th November 2019
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Congressional sponsors of Medicare for All single-payer legislation — bills abolishing virtually all existing public and private health insurance — routinely promise that all Americans will get equal access to higher quality care and enjoy superior medical outcomes.
Performance, however, is the acid test of sound policy. While the U.S. “single payer” experience is limited to the Veterans Administration program, recently plagued by headline-grabbing care delays, working models of national health insurance can teach Americans sober lessons in government-controlled health care.
Hint: It sucks.
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27th November 2019
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Nov. 25, 2019: The brokerage firm Charles Schwab announced today it would acquire TD Ameritrade in a $26 billion deal and as part of the transaction Schwab will move its headquarters to the Dallas-Forth Worth area.
The integration of the two firms is expected to take between 18 and 36 months, following the transaction’s close. The corporate headquarters of the combined firm will eventually relocate to Schwab’s new campus in Westlake, Texas, which is located in Denton and Tarrant Counties north of the cities of Fort Worth and Dallas.
I’m surprised that it took them this long.
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27th November 2019
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27th November 2019
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Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a paper that details the mechanism of a battery device that can suck out the carbon dioxide from the air, store it, and then release it for sequestration or storage and subsequent sale: the oil and gas industry uses CO2 to improve well output.
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26th November 2019
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26th November 2019
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26th November 2019
Babylon Bee.
I’m happy for them.
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26th November 2019
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How about that GREAT government-provided health care?
I could call my doctor tomorrow morning at 7:30 and be in to see somebody before noon. But that’s here.
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26th November 2019
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Worcester, the second largest city in solidly blue Massachusetts, was the scene of a sex ed showdown between Planned Parenthood and concerned parents and church leaders. Last February, more than 75 of those parents and church leaders stood up alongside the Massachusetts Family Institute to outnumber pro-Planned Parenthood voices at a meeting of a local school committee.
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26th November 2019
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Capping off months of escalating tension between Google and what the NYT described as “a vocal contingent of workers who have protested the company’s handling of sexual harassment, its treatment of contract employees, and its work with the Defense Department, federal border agencies and the Chinese government”, Google on Thursday fired four employees, including several who were involved in labor organizing at the company.
Claiming that all four had repeatedly violated “data security policies” (what multiple sources have characterized as a technicality and a ruse to obscure the rank unionbusting, the company sent a memo announcing the dismissals to staff. That letter was obtained by the NYT and a story based on its contents was published Thursday evening.
Since then, the SJW twitter warriors have thrown everything they could in the way of tweets expressing their frustration that Google would dare to retaliate against a group of employees who have already cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by sabotaging the company’s bid for a billion-dollar government contract.
Cross the Narrative, and the mob will turn on you in an instant.
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26th November 2019
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