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-Benjamin Franklin
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Radioactive Pigs
The wild boars in Europe don’t glow in the dark – but they’re too radioactive to eat. It isn’t because of Chernobyl – it’s because of the pigs diet and the atmospheric bomb testing that occurred in my youth. The whole story is at Nuclear weapons tests blamed for radioactive European boar The interesting excerpts Read more
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Developing Firebombers
Watching the scoop planes climb from Dickey lake, turn south over the hayfield, and head out to dump water on the East Fork Fire got me thinking about the borate bombers of my youth – a time roughly running from kindergarten to age 40, from 1954 to 1989. So I started a couple of search Read more
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Pulaskis and Fire
Again I have watched a fourth largest town in Lincoln County grow with tents as a field filled with firefighters. It isn’t a new thing – when an August fire hits in a dry year, it’s people in yellow shirts that come in and buy time until the shorter, cooler days of Fall can extinguish Read more
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Coup de Publique
I ran across this comment (explanation?) on Ace: “A coup d’etat is when a small group of people suddenly try to take power and subjugate a nation by force. A coup du publique is when a small group of people already in power try to further subjugate an entire population by methodically taking away whatever Read more
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A Choice of Candidates
I saw these AP Poll results, and copied the table. I didn’t have any more information on how the poll was conducted than the N shown in the chart. Still, even a poor poll, repeated five times, that shows (at best) 29% of the respondents want Biden to run for president in 2024 and 30% Read more
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Screen time contributing to sleep deprivation in teens- Maida Chen
Screen time is contributing to chronic sleep deprivation in tweens and teens – a pediatric sleep expert explains how critical sleep is to kids’ mental health Maida Lynn Chen, University of Washington With the start of a new school year comes the inevitable battle to get kids back into a healthy bedtime routine. In many cases, Read more
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