U.S. officials have said the surveillance tool is crucial in disrupting terror attacks, cyber intrusions, and foreign espionage. read more
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. ... Notably absent from Biden's policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. read more
Russia said on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' support for $60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine showed that Washington was wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that would end in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.
The proportion of Americans who believe the United States doesn't have control over its external borders has increased substantially over the past eight months according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Newsweek
Diplomats from Europe and Asia in the region suspect that China's interests in Antigua are more than just economic. read more
@#32 ... I gotta say, it's good to have to old Russian trolls back here, instead of the new kids who have seemed to fail miserably. ...
Too Much Joy - The Kids Don't Understand
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Lyrics excerpt...
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Well they flash
Those half-knowing smiles
As they pass
Heroic profiles
Like they're in some book by Ayn Rand
Always working, always tanned
So satisfied but the kids don't understand
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Another view...
Physicists Think The Infinite Size of The Multiverse Could Be Infinitely Bigger
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... Not only does God play dice, that great big casino of quantum physics could have far more rooms than we ever imagined. An infinite number more, in fact.
Physicists from the University of California, Davis (UCD), the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have redrawn the map of fundamental reality to demonstrate the way we relate objects in physics could be holding us back from seeing a bigger picture.
For about a century, our understanding of reality has been complicated by the theories and observations that fall under the banner of quantum mechanics. Gone are the days when objects had absolute measures like velocity and position.
To understand the fabric from which the Universe is made, we need mathematics that breaks down games of chance into likely measures.
This is far from an intuitive view of the Universe. In what has come to be known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics, it seems there are waves of possibility until there isn't. Even now, it's not at all clear what ultimately decides the fate of Schrdinger's cat.
That hasn't stopped physicists from considering the options. American physicist Hugh Everett suggested in the 1950s that all possible measures constituted their own reality. What makes this one special is merely the fact you happen to be observing it.
Everett's 'many worlds' model isn't quite a theory so much as a way of grounding the absolute weirdness of quantum mechanics in something tangible.
We start with an impression of the infinite multiverse of maybes, or what physicists might refer to as the sum of all energies and positions known as a global Hamiltonian, and then zoom in on what interests us, constraining the infinite within a finite and far more manageable Hamiltonian subsystem. ...
Michael Franks - Popsicle Toes
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Lyrics excerpt...
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And when God gave out rhythm
He sure was good to you
You can add, subtract, multiply and divide...
By two
I know today's your birthday
And I did not buy no rose
But I wrote this song instead and I call it
"Popsicle Toes"
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You got the nicest North America
This sailor ever saw
I'd like to feel your warm Brazil
And touch your Panama
But Your Tierra del Fuegos
Are nearly always froze
We gotta see saw
Until we unthaw those
Popsicle toes
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Pheromones - YuppieDrone (1986)
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