President Jimmy Carter served as a naval officer on the nuclear-powered submarine USS Seawolf. His civic duties included serving as senator in Georgia’s legislature, the governor of Georgia, and President of the United States. He remained true to his roots as a peanut farmer and Sunday School teacher for which he caught much comment on the […]
Who would have though a whale could out live a human. Taking into consideration, they were hunted for their oil, run into by large ships, and suffered from the human caused pollution of their oceans. Study reveals right whales live 130 years—or more – University of Alaska Fairbanks New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive […]
I am puzzled by what the Senate allows and what they do not allow. Maybe, I should clarify the later so it is understood what I am going to discuss. There is another Kennedy in the Senate who hails from a different Kennedy family. This is other than the more famous Kennedys who played significant […]
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Introduction to a new Newsletter – The Daily Yonder written by Sarah Melotte. This is the inaugural post of our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map straight to your inbox. Do You Think Global Warming Will Harm You Personally? – by Sarah […]
President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry. The dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters. The question in my mind being? Why Go Out of Country for Labor besides a supposed belief the Labor is better? Most of the electronics techie people I […]
This photograph of a new Chinese fighter scares me and reminds me of happy days of my childhood spent climbing on an actual decommissioned fighter in Wheaton Regional Park. I promise you there is a serious connection. The new Chinese 6th generation fighter is supersonic, has a delta wing and has no tail. The last […]
This can be either interesting or puzzling to anyone who perhaps has a few thoughts on Trump’s mindless wandering. We are sitting here with an economy which is ready to take off and grow. And Trump is occupied with thoughts on Canada and Greenland. Fortunately, Denmark has shown an interest in obtaining the United States. […]
Who or what we become in life is influenced by a bunch of factors that can be boiled down to genetics and environment. Genetically, both my parents were PhD scientists. As a geneticist, I can tell you that there are no genes known to be responsible for “science.” But of course, my home environment skewed […]
Jailing for Profit: When Budgets Depend on Locking People Up – by Nazish Dholakia Vera Institute Across the country, more than 1,300 counties have expanded existing jails or built new ones over the last 20 years, increasing the nation’s capacity to lock people up in jails by almost 40 percent. One of the drivers of this growth […]