Iran boast on enrichment serves as warning to Trump - Washington Times

Iran boast on enrichment serves as warning to Trump - Washington Times:

"After years of Iranian isolation, the nuclear accord opened the way for Europe to do business with Tehran by dramatically easing sanctions on the Islamic republic in exchange for curbs to nuclear activities — activities the West believed were geared toward the developing of nuclear bombs.
Europe’s growing business ties with Tehran hung in the backdrop on Tuesday when Mr. Salehi warned that if the U.S. moves against the accord, “we will definitely surprise them. If we make the determination, we are able to resume 20 percent enrichment in at most five days.”
The Iranian atomic chief added: “Definitely, we are not interested in such a thing happening. We have not achieved the deal easily to let it go easily. We are committed to the deal and we are loyal to it.”"

This really works!-----How To: Calm Your Alarm Clock's Display and Sleep Better for 25 cents | Curbly

How To: Calm Your Alarm Clock's Display and Sleep Better for 25 cents | Curbly:
"...most contemporary alarm clocks are lit by LCDs, and apparently, LCDs are really bright, and I mostly hate them.
It took four more alarm clocks, and I finally found an alarm clock that has an adjustable brightness.
...But, it's still pretty bright in an otherwise dark room.
...Luckily, I came up with a solution that helped immensely, for only a quarter.
...3) You might be lucky, and the new "diffuser" might stick by static cling.
Mine didn't, so I spritzed just a little water on it, let it nearly dry, then smacked it on. 
It's stayed in position for two weeks, and doesn't seem like it'll go anywhere..."
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Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60! • The Register

Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60! • The Register:
Tablet beat Pythagoras by a millennium, may explain how the ancients built pyramids

By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor 25 Aug 2017 at 03:59

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Greek vs. Babylonian triangle workings-out

Those of you who can remember trigonometry can feel free to forget it, because ancient Babylonian mathematicians had a better way of doing it – using base 60!

That's the conclusion of a new paper, Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry, in the new issue of the journal Historia Mathematica.

The “Plimpton 322” from the title is a clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform script. Discovered in the early 1900s, the tablet has been of interest to mathematicians for years because it describes Pythagoras' theorem, yet is thought to have been created around 1800BC, more than a thousand years before Pythagoras was born and started tinkering with triangles.

The rest of the tablet's four columns and fifteen rows of numbers have been debated for some time, but in the paper Daniel Mansfield and N.J. Wildberger, both of the University of New South Wales' School of Mathematics and Statistics, suggest it was a trigonometric table..."
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History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910


Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, Geraldine Ferraro 1935, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone")


55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.


1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."


1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.


1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.


1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.


1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.


1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.


1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity - WSJ

Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity - WSJ:

"Leading voices in the tech industry—from Mark Zuckerberg to Sam Altman —are warning that increased automation risks leaving an unprecedented number of Americans permanently unemployed. In response, many concerned Silicon Valley luminaries have called for a universal basic income, or UBI. Guaranteed income from the government may seem like the easiest way to address long-term unemployment, but UBI fixes only the narrowest and most quantifiable problem joblessness causes: lack of a reliable income. It completely ignores, and may exacerbate, the larger complications of mass unemployment."

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Dr. Keith Ablow: Trump mentally ill? I hope every president we ever have is this 'crazy' | Fox News

Dr. Keith Ablow: Trump mentally ill? I hope every president we ever have is this 'crazy' | Fox News:
"This oped was originally published months ago—before Yale forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee was known to be consulting with other psychiatrists and with members of Congress about creating an expert panel to advise Congress on President Trump’s mental well-being.  
Publication also preceded recent comments calling into question the president’s fitness for office by James Clapper, who served in intelligence positions for Presidents Bush and Obama.
At the risk of sounding a bit narcissistic myself: 
These people should quiet down, enjoy a nice Trump cigar or glass of Trump wine and listen to me.
My insights are basic ones that an average medical student or below-average political science major in a college should be able to grasp, immediately.  
So, chill.  
Here we go . . .
Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists who discuss the mental health of public figures: I have not personally examined President Trump. 
But, I don’t need to.
Now, here is my assessment, once again: Donald Trump is stone cold sane and more than mentally fit to be president of the United States.
When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide brand, it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable..."
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Letter From Baltimore: “Start Throwing Rocks”–Black Professor’s Call Shows City Past Tipping Point. Is America? | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform

Letter From Baltimore: “Start Throwing Rocks”–Black Professor’s Call Shows City Past Tipping Point. Is America? | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"In the week after the Charlottesville disorder, several notable things happened 130 miles to the northeast in Baltimore. 
Several public statues commemorating Civil War-era figures were hustled away in the dead of night. 
Five new homicides were chalked up. 
And Nathan Connolly, an African American associate professor of history at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University penned an op-ed for the Washington Post that may—depending on how you parse it—have called for terrorism against civil society.

Actually, five murders in a week wasn’t notable in Baltimore. 
In mid-June, six people were killed in a single 24-hour period. 
The dog days of summer have sapped everyone’s energy...
The WaPo Op Ed was particularly striking. 
Its premise was that liberalism has failed to deal with racial injustice in the U.S.—and its conclusion was that blacks need to resume throwing rocks. 
Whether the rocks are to be literal or metaphorical is only somewhat in question.
Baltimore’s murder problem, like its drug problem, police corruption problem, subliteracy problem, tax-base problem, and population-decline problem, has a distinctively demographic component. 
The racial mix of the city is now approximately 63% African-American, 29% white, with allegedly undercounted Latinos making up most of the rest. 
Those numbers accompany an eye-catching murder rate..."
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California first-grader sent to principal's office for misgendering classmate - Washington Times

California first-grader sent to principal's office for misgendering classmate - Washington Times:

"An elite charter school in California has been rocked by scandal since the end of the last school year, when a kindergarten teacher read her class a pair of books advocating transgender ideology, and a male kindergartener was reintroduced to the class as a girl.
Now first-graders at Rocklin Academy Gateway risk a trip to the principal’s office if they refer to their transgender classmate by the wrong name or gender pronoun, said Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, a pro-family group based in Sacramento.
“There was a little girl who had been in class with the little boy all last year,” Ms. England said. “They’re in different classes now, but she saw him on the playground yesterday and called him by his name. The little girl was told ‘you can’t do that, his name is this name,’ and ‘you need to call him a “her.”’ Then she was called to the principal’s office.”"

A Totalitarian Society Has Totalitarian Science | The Daily Sheeple

A Totalitarian Society Has Totalitarian Science | The Daily Sheeple
"...Government-backed science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population.
We aren’t talking about knowledge here.
Knowledge is irrelevant. 
What counts is: ‘How can we fabricate something that looks like the truth?’
I keep pointing this out: we’re dealing with reality builders.
In this case, they make their roads and fences and buildings out of data, and they massage and invent the data out of thin air to suit their purposes.
After all, they also invent money out of thin air.
...Between then and now, I have found that, with remarkably few exceptions, mainstream reporters are studiously indifferent to false science.
They shy away from it.
They pretend “it couldn’t be.”
They refuse to consider facts.
They and their editors parrot “the experts.”
Official science has a stranglehold on major media.
It has the force of a State religion. 
When you stop and think about it, official science is, in a significant sense, a holy church.
Therefore, it is no surprise that the church’s spokespeople would wield power over major information outlets..."
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