Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts

26 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Tuesday, 27 December 2016: Mosul Dam, Bitcoin Price Surge, Animal Photos & More





Islands of Mass Destruction: How China killed essential reefs and built military bases on top     (Bloomberg Businessweek)


Mars rover Curiosity views spectacular layered rock formations which remind us of Southwest buttes in the USA     (Geology In)


China Plans to Land Probes on Far Side of the Moon, Mars by 2020    (NY Times)


Our favorite Wired Long Reads of the year   (Wired) 


Why do I torture my kids … with classical music?    (Vitaly Katsenelson's Contrarian Edge)



Prices Have Exploded Upward As Investors Chase Bitcoins As A Safe Haven        (Coin Telegraph)




The Big Picture Blog looks at "Amazing Animals 2016"     (The Boston Globe)


Grand Chess Master Gary Kasparov Interviewed About Putin, Trump, and Democracy - "Why Dictators Hate Chess"     (Slate) 


Trump Is Already Ditching His Movement      (The National Review)


The Toughest Man in America     (Alabama Political Reporter, Josh Moon)




23 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Friday, 23 December 2016: Obama Protects Atheists, Berlin Terrorist Shot Dead, How Life Began


Obama Signs Law Protecting Atheists from Religious Persecution (Snopes)































21 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Wednesday 21 December 2016: Energy Storage, Science Rocks, Obama Blocks & More


It's Energy Storage's Time To Shine (Travis Holum - Motley Fool)


Ford To Close F-150 Kansas Plant For One Week To Decrease Slow Moving Inventory, GM To Lay Off Another 1,300 Workers In March  (Reuters)


Does Elon Musk really want to create The Boring Company to build underground roads? (International Business Times, UK)


7/11 and Flirtey Beat Amazon and Deliver 77 Packages by Drones in Reno, Nevada (Phys Org)



President Obama Invokes 1953 Law To Indefinitely Block Drilling In Arctic And Atlantic Oceans (CNBC)


Alaska's Indigenous People See Their Culture Slipping Away As Sea Ice Vanishes (Guardian)


A Feminine Response To Iceland's Financial Crash (TEDTalk)


Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty (Brain Pickings)


Donald Trump's War On Science (The New Yorker)


Trump Rejects Climate Change, But Mar-A-Lago Could Be Lost to the Sea (Bloomberg Business Week)





25 February 2015

Reads for Wednesday, 25 February 2015

U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Have New Competition…from Waffle House: Roadie Is Going To Be The Uber Of Package Delivery (MSN Money)


Oldie, but Goodie: Co-Founder of Motley Fool, Dave Gardner, On "The Greatest Secret Of All" (Motley Fool) 


What Dodd-Frank Didn’t Fix: The Worst Conflicts on Wall Street (Wall Street On Parade) 


The Easy Oil Is Gone So Where Do We Look Now? (Oilprice.com)


President Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline Bill; Republicans Gear Up For Override Bill But Might Not Have The Votes (Politico) 


Oil rigs fall idle after global crude prices drop (BBC)


Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller: Buying A Home Isn't Necessarily A Good Investment (Yahoo Finance) 


Bill O Reilly Threatens Another Reporter  (Talking Points Memo) 


Another Big Merchant Dumps American Express (Megan McArdle for Bloomberg) 


Apple now twice as big as world's second-largest company, ExxonMobil (The Daily Telegraph - UK) 


Investigation: Why are cargo pilots excluded from new rest rules? (CBS News) 


Two Ex-Army Rangers Believe Flip Flops And Sarongs Will Defeat ISIS (Gizmondo)


Goodbye, Putin (Foreign Affairs Magazine) 


U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border (Washington Post blog)


75% of Air and Rain Samples Contain Monsanto’s Round Up (Natural Society) 


Obama administration to allow sales of armed drones to allies (Washington Post) 

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