Death in Deutschland

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Some things are as exciting as watching paint dry.

Fear Porn Friday: Tuberculosis

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If you’re cowering from COVID-19 then you should tremble at tuberculosis.

Sucharit Bhakdi

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Europe has a recurring problem with “self-destruction and collective suicide”.

Martin Armstrong: Manipulating the World Economy

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Martin Armstrong is a very interesting political economist.

Pre-Existing Conditions

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Some Pre-Existing Conditions are missing from the mainstream narrative.

Miami Florida: Closed

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Last week was different. Last week I didn’t laugh with Jimmy Dore.

European Croaking Contest

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After a slow start the European Croaking Contest is finally making headlines but it’s the poor performance of Germany that’s puzzling commentators.

Lombardy Isn’t Italy

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It’s pointless bandaging a foot when the patient has a headache.

The Princess Panic

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I’ve never understood the attraction of paying a premium price for a vacation that’s based upon voluntarily confining yourself to a floating Petri dish for a few weeks. Many others see it differently.

Wolfgang Wodarg: The Corona Panic

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It’s not always clear which pathogen is responsible for a patient’s illness because an individual hosts many pathogens.

Chicago Influenza 1918

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What have the experts forgotten in the last 100 years?

Orion’s Blue Balls

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It’s time [once again] to snap on the rubber gloves so we can examine Orion’s Blue Balls and get to grips with Max Planck’s Black Body Balls.

Flattening The Economy

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I would laugh at the stereotypical roles portrayed in this animation if it didn’t portray so accurately the insidious divide and conquer strategy employed by big government.

Fear Porn Friday: Climate Change

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The good news is: Arctic winters are a little less cold. The bad news is: We’re all going to die!

Three Small Steps for Science

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Following the televised virtual reality of “one small step for man” in 1969 it’s about time Natural Philosophers took three small steps for science in the real world.

Scared to Death

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Are you scared to death by the Corona Virus?

Super Tuesday 2020

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Can you spot the odd one out?

Tulsi Gabbard: Imagine

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You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one…

Southern Beech

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The Southern Beech supplies the segue for a series of Southern Hemisphere surprises.

Nippur and The Great Trench

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The extraordinary excavation of Nippur at the end of the 19th century provided extraordinary evidence that the Fall of Babylon [officially 539 BC] coincided with the transformation of cuneiform into Arabic letters at the Arabian Horizon [637 CE].

Nippur and The Glass Road

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Can glass bead holes be used to string people along?

The Orion Fly-By

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The iconography associated with the Orion constellation is [quite literally] an open book but it’s pictorial narrative depends upon the pages being correctly sequenced.

Seeing Sirius

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When the brightness of Sirius suggests it’s only 362.45 AU distant [instead of the officially mandated 8.6 light years] then it’s worth taking a second look.

Ditrianum: Major Earthquake Warning

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Forecasting WHEN a major earthquake will strike is one step closer to predicting WHERE it will strike.

Indian Salt: Wallace Line

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The official Story of Sugar deploys an armada of Austronesians to transport sugar cane across the Wallace Line.

Indian Salt: Kingdom of Funan

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The modern version of the Sugar Cane Story forgets about the fragmentation of Greater India and the destruction of the Kingdom of Funan.

Indian Salt: The Elephant Bird

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The story of sugar contains some terrifically tall stories.

Gunnar Goes North

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Metal detectors unearth pots of gold and the occasional can of worms.

Parallax Postscript

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Many astronomers seem to identify with Marvin the Paranoid Android who claimed he possessed a “brain the size of a planet”.

The Fuckwit Song

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“Save Australia” from grandstanding politicians.

Parallax Perspective

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Solving the Stellar Parallax Clusterfuck suggests Gamma Draconis is about 10,850 AU distant and that Sirius is [only] about 360 AU away.

Parallax Proxy

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The fourth step towards solving the puzzle of the Stellar Parallax Clusterfuck involves comparing parallax distances with an established distance proxy.

Michael Rectenwald: Springtime for Snowflakes

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Michael Rectenwald discovered his fall from grace was a learning opportunity.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

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Tired of tinsel?

Parallax Patterns

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The third step towards solving the puzzle of the Stellar Parallax Clusterfuck involves assembling the pieces of the puzzle to see the fudge hit the fan.