You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen..: 2020

At more than 100 new daily cases per 100,000 residents, California's case rate is second only to that in Tennessee, according to the nonprofit tracking site Covid Act Now — though it's a state that does not mandate mask wearing and allows indoor gatherings of up to 10 people.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/23/california-covid-surge-450315

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The key misunderstandings of how coronavirus spreads - BBC Science Focus Magazine

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/coronavirus-misunderstandings-muge-cevik/

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Apple's iPhone deconstructed: This 3-D image shows where your iPhone 12 parts come from

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/where-your-iphone-12s-parts-come-from-161719303.html

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The iPod turns 15: a visual history of Apple's mobile music icon - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/23/13359534/ipod-mini-nano-touch-shuffle-15-years-visual-history-apple

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The Touching History of Touchscreen Tech

https://mashable.com/2012/11/09/touchscreen-history/

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Best albums of 2020 made by Arizona artists, ranked

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Best albums of 2020 made by Arizona artists, ranked

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/12/24/best-albums-2020-arizona-artists-puscifer-ajj-spirit-adrift-courtney-marie-andrews-calexico/4018634001/

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Saturday, December 26, 2020

How John Le Carré Reinvented the Spy Novel ‹ CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/how-john-le-carre-reinvented-the-spy-novel/

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Ten reasons we got Covid-19 vaccines so quickly without 'cutting corners' | Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/26/ten-reasons-we-got-covid-19-vaccines-so-quickly-without-cutting-corners

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Pastor Luke Barnett, his daughter on the 800-mile Arizona Trail hike

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/karinabland/2020/12/25/pastor-luke-barnett-his-daughter-800-mile-arizona-trail-hike/3814328001/

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

How to spend money for maximal happiness | Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/story/science/how-to-spend-money-happiness/

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The 16 Best Ambient Albums of 2020 | Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-ambient-music-2020/

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The Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-19/the-best-nonfiction-books-of-2020

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The Top 10 Tequilas and Mezcals of 2020 - Drinkhacker

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2020/11/12/the-top-10-tequilas-and-mezcals-of-2020/

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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting

https://longreads.com/2020/12/21/best-2020-investigative-reporting-journalism/

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Quote from Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst

""A grand day," another man said, "when the capon runs to save the cock!""

— Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst
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Quote from Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst

"historical custom dictated that conquest be celebrated between the legs of the local women,"

— Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst
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Murray criticized

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/murray1.pdf

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The 40 Most Expensive Restaurants In America

https://www.delish.com/food/g30267512/most-expensive-restaurants-in-america/

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Our 10 Most Popular Instant Pot Recipes of 2020

Our 10 Most Popular Instant Pot Recipes of 2020
https://www.thekitchn.com/most-popular-instant-pot-recipes-2020-23111833?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Category/Channel:+collection/affiliate

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The Music Club, 2020

https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/best-covers-2020-miley-cyrus-radiohead-norah-jones.html

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Therapeutic potential of ivermectin as add on treatment in COVID 19: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jpps/index.php/JPPS/article/view/31457

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Saturday, December 19, 2020

A Mysterious Black Spot Offers Clues to a Doomed Explorer's Last Moments - Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/arctic-journal-mystery

_- Steve

LDL Not the Primary Culprit in ASCVD?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942629

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Friday, December 18, 2020

100 Best Political Biography Books of All Time - BookAuthority

https://bookauthority.org/books/best-political-biography-books

_- Steve

A timeline of Edward Snowden leaks - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9

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Quote from The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman

""Would you like the detailed answer, or the simple answer?" asks Ibrahim. "The simple answer, please, Ibrahim," says Elizabeth, without hesitation. Ibrahim pauses. Perhaps he had phrased his question poorly? "But I have prepared a detailed answer, Elizabeth." He lets this hang in the air, until Joyce says, "Well, let's all enjoy the detailed answer, shall we?""

— The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman
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Higher ground

https://youtu.be/3hGSqqhhokE

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Marley

https://youtu.be/7-dRks5QVQo

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How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart

How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America's Most Elite Suburbs Apart

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/12/school-reopening-teachers-unions-parents-brookline-massachusetts.html

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Tough times ahead for Intel: industry insiders spill the beans on subpar 10 nm yields, server CPU plus 7 nm delays, production outsourcing and more - NotebookCheck.net News

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tough-times-ahead-for-Intel-industry-insiders-spill-the-beans-on-subpar-10-nm-yields-server-CPU-plus-7-nm-delays-production-outsourcing-and-more.509532.0.html

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Lennox thermostat

http://pdfstream.manualsonline.com/8/8f023a53-f23f-4fec-b07e-ac48e0fc20ab.pdf

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Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-get-their-wish-and-the-hubble-crisis-gets-worse-20201217/

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NSA Report on Russian Hacking of U.S. Election

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Frontiers | The Many Faces of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Depression: From Pathology to Treatment | Pharmacology

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2019.00995/full

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How the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines compare - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-12-15/how-the-covid-19-vaccines-from-moderna-and-pfizer-compare-head-to-head

_- Steve

Static calls in Linux 5.10

https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/12/16/Static-calls-in-Linux-5-10

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Senate subpoenas demand audit of Maricopa County's vote machines. Sure, if Republicans agree to accept the findings

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Senate subpoenas demand audit of Maricopa County's vote machines. Sure, if Republicans agree to accept the findings

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2020/12/15/subpoena-maricopa-countys-voting-machines-arizona-election-trump-biden/3909221001/

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Morrison v. Olson - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_v._Olson

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Quote from The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman

"On dates, Ian has his tried-and-tested material. He'll impress young women with pictures of his pool, and the time he was interviewed on Kent Tonight. He had already shown Karen a picture of his pool, because you never knew, but she simply smiled politely and nodded. No wonder she was single."

— The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman
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The Seven Biggest News Stories From Music's Weirdest Year | Phoenix New Times

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/the-seven-biggest-news-stories-from-musics-weirdest-year-11518343

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from France and Russia - About Facebook

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-france-russia/

_- Steve

Nature’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-020-03435-6/index.html

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That Margaret Mead quote | Stacy Hackner

https://stacyhackner.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/that-margaret-mead-quote/

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Man who died of constipation 1,000 years ago ate grasshoppers for months | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/mummy-constipated-man-ate-grasshoppers.html

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Modern a vaccine

https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download

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Monday, December 14, 2020

The CDC knows why U.S. life expectancy keeps dropping—but no one knows how to stop it | Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/life-expectancy-declining/

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These are Science News’ favorite books of 2020 | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/favorite-top-science-books-2020

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Amazon-Owned Self-Driving Taxi Zoox Reveals Its Secret Vehicle

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/12/14/amazon-owned-self-driving-taxi-zoox-reveals-its-secret-vehicle/

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Politics is nothing but medicine at a larger scale: reflections on public health's biggest idea - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19052033/

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Sunday, December 13, 2020

Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336317544408305665.html

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Do you know your chocolates? Recognition survey among medical staff of various grades | The BMJ

scores for the post-registration house officers were significantly better than scores for the preregistration house officers, registrars, and consultants. In addition, a significant inverse correlation existed between years post registration and total scores for chocolate recognition (Pearson's r=-0.47, P<0.01). The nurses performed as well as the post-registration house officers.

https://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1655

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Easy Peel Soft Boiled and Hard Boiled Eggs - 40 Aprons

https://40aprons.com/perfect-easy-peel-hard-soft-boiled-eggs/

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Donald Trump’s Legacy of Lies - The Atlantic

America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deader. It also became more delusional.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/

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Set sail with these 10 books about epic ocean voyages

Set sail with these 10 books about epic ocean voyages
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/lists/fiftieth-anniversary-robin-lee-graham-books-about-sailing/

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These are Science News’ favorite books of 2020 | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/favorite-top-science-books-2020

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Saturday, December 12, 2020

Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4467

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Ivanka Trump Has Been Grifting Her Way Through Her Father's Presidency. But It's Hunter Biden We Want to Investigate? | Vogue

https://www.vogue.com/article/hunter-biden-ivanka-trump-who-should-we-investigate

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COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

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This Healthy Avocado ‘Hollandaise’ Sauce Is Exactly What’s Missing From Your Brunch

This Healthy Avocado 'Hollandaise' Sauce Is Exactly What's Missing From Your Brunch
https://www.wellandgood.com/healthy-hollandaise-sauce/

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The US isn't headed for fewer deaths in 2020 with COVID-19 - Australian Associated Press

https://www.aap.com.au/the-us-isnt-headed-for-fewer-deaths-in-2020-with-covid-19/

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NVSS - Mortality Data 2018

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm

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2017,

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf

Friday, December 11, 2020

How Did Madagascar Become the World's Biggest Producer of Vanilla?

How Did Madagascar Become the World's Biggest Producer of Vanilla?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/madagascar-vanilla

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The 20 best covers of The Beatles of all time

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/20-best-beatles-covers-ever-bowie-dylan-hendrix-zappa/

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

John le Carré and the Most Interesting Author Interview You Will Ever See | CrimeReads

It is the moral search of a lonely man that in Greene, as in Conrad, attracts me irresistibly."
https://crimereads.com/john-le-carre-and-the-most-interesting-author-interview-you-will-ever-see/

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Pfizer vaccine

https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download?fbclid=IwAR2lcqQb_kZ_9DoAIj5ttPEyxn6KwVqort0Y4cePwqtVhkxXlPv_julrnqA

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

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FDA vaccine

https://www.fda.gov/media/144325/download

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My Love for Birria Tacos Knows No Limits. Here’s My Go-to Recipe.

My Love for Birria Tacos Knows No Limits. Here's My Go-to Recipe.
https://www.thekitchn.com/instant-pot-beef-birria-tacos-recipe-23105466

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I rode an electric motorcycle for the first time. Here’s what I learned. | Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/zero-electric-motorcycle-fx-dual-sport/

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CDC COVID Data Tracker

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view

_- Steve

Moderna Announces Primary Efficacy Analysis in Phase 3 COVE Study for Its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate and Filing Today with U.S. FDA for Emergency Use Authorization | Moderna, Inc.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-primary-efficacy-analysis-phase-3-cove-study/

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Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Best Mystery & Thriller 2020 — Goodreads Choice Awards

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-mystery-thriller-books-2020

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Monday, December 07, 2020

A Whiskey Writer Names The 30 Best Bottles Of Bourbon He’s Ever Tasted

A Whiskey Writer Names The 30 Best Bottles Of Bourbon He's Ever Tasted
https://uproxx.com/life/a-whiskey-writer-names-his-30-favorite-bottles-of-bourbon-ever/

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Sunday, December 06, 2020

(4) Franklin Veaux's answer to How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States? - Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-disease-with-1-mortality-shut-down-the-United-States

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The best mysteries and thrillers of 2020

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/abr/arp/B08P7VBL3N/ref=abr_off_ar_m_sm?ref=tsm_1_tw_s__4269250523&linkId=106042611

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The Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 | Five Books Expert Recommendations

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/nonfiction-2020-sophie-roell/

_- Steve

Scandalous Facts About Queen Anne, Great Britain's First Monarch

https://www.factinate.com/people/42-little-known-facts-anne-first-queen-great-britain/

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The Battles of Zelenopillya: Part 1 of 2 – The Local Blind Spot

https://7969.home.blog/2020/12/02/the-battles-of-zelenopillya/

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Saturday, December 05, 2020

CASP14: what Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved, and what it means for protein folding, biology and bioinformatics | Oxford Protein Informatics Group

https://www.blopig.com/blog/2020/12/casp14-what-google-deepminds-alphafold-2-really-achieved-and-what-it-means-for-protein-folding-biology-and-bioinformatics/

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Flexible and protected | EurekAlert! Science News

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/embl-fap081720.php

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The Art Loft: Rockland’s new drop-in art center headed up by two Maine Media Workshop grads | PenBay Pilot

https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/art-loft-rockland-s-new-drop-art-center-headed-two-maine-media-workshop-grads/69898

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NPR's Best Books Of 2020 : NPR

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020

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Friday, December 04, 2020

Current Map | United States Drought Monitor

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

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The uncanny mountain: p-values between .01 and .10 are still a problem – The 100% CI

http://www.the100.ci/2018/02/15/the-uncanny-mountain-p-values-between-01-and-10-are-still-a-problem/

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Why I am in a higher priority group for a vaccine than younger people with chronic health conditions | by David Spiegelhalter | WintonCentre | Dec, 2020 | Medium

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/why-i-am-in-a-higher-priority-group-for-a-vaccine-than-younger-people-with-chronic-health-974621eec30

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Fact Check: Debunking the Hammer and Scorecard Conspiracy Theory - The Dispatch Fact Check

https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-debunking-the-hammer-and

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Off the beaten path: This Arizona hike unfolds with views and historical artifacts

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Off the beaten path: This Arizona hike unfolds with views and historical artifacts

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/hiking/2020/12/02/arizona-hike-black-canyon-trail-russian-well/6469146002/

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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Do Good Writers Make for Good Presidents? | by Derek Robertson | Dec, 2020 | Arc Digital

https://arcdigital.media/do-good-writers-make-for-good-presidents-577a1289e76d

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Marc Rich - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

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Betelgeuse went dark, but didn’t go supernova. What happened? | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/betelgeuse-star-dim-supernova-death-what-happened

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Wednesday, December 02, 2020

The Fundamental Intuition | Cato Unbound

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/11/eric-turkheimer/fundamental-intuition

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Project Zero: An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html

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Rockies to the Red Rocks | Rocky Mountaineer

https://www.rockymountaineer.com/train-routes/rockies-red-rocks

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It’s OK If Democrats Fold on Stimulus Checks

It's OK If Democrats Fold on Stimulus Checks

https://slate.com/business/2020/12/covid-relief-checks-congress-mcconnell.html

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Tuesday, December 01, 2020

The demons and devils that haunt scientists’ imaginations

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03379-x?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf240612680=1

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Serologic testing of U.S. blood donations to identify SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies: December 2019-January 2020 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472

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Products - Data Briefs - Number 355 - January 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm

_- Steve

COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Age | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html

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Monday, November 30, 2020

Rumor Control | CISA

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.23.20237057v1

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.23.20237057v1

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Which Coronavirus Vaccine Should You Get? A Subjective Guide.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/ranking-covid-19-vaccine-possibilities-by-speed-efficacy-joy.html

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Saturday, November 28, 2020

COVID-19 and excess all-cause mortality in the US and 18 comparison countries | MDLinx

https://www.mdlinx.com/journal-summary/covid-19-and-excess-all-cause-mortality-in-the-us-and-18-comparison-countries/4FBF6YvwdATQXYQscC4zTC

_- Steve

Outdoor Life Editors’ Holiday Gift Guide | Outdoor Life

https://www.outdoorlife.com/story/gear/editors-holiday-gift-guide/

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The Electoral College

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspx

_- Steve

Friday, November 27, 2020

Leveraging Epidemiological Principles to Evaluate Sweden’s COVID-19 Response - ScienceDirect

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047279720304130

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The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist

https://bookshop.org/books/the-woman-who-stole-vermeer-the-true-story-of-rose-dugdale-and-the-russborough-house-art-heist/9781643135298

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Second stimulus check: House passes stimulus bill; Is second payment dead? - al.com

Hero's act, oct 2
https://www.al.com/news/2020/10/second-stimulus-check-house-passes-stimulus-bill-is-second-payment-dead.html

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California and Texas have more of the worst American cities to drive in

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California and Texas have more of the worst American cities to drive in

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/11/27/americas-worst-cities-to-drive-in/114973914/

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Buy Premium Spirits Online | Custom Engraved Gift Bottles | ReserveBar

https://www.reservebar.com/

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Your Shopping Cart – Top Shelf Wine & Spirits

https://topshelfwineandspirits.com/cart

_- Steve

Best 70-inch Black Friday TV deals: Biggest sales on the biggest TVs | Tom's Guide

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/best-70-inch-black-friday-tv-deals-biggest-sales-on-the-biggest-tvs

_- Steve

A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs | Boing Boing

A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs | Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2020/11/26/a-thanksgiving-prayer-from-william-s-burroughs.html

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

11 of the best military books we read this year - Task & Purpose

https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/best-military-books

_- Steve

How COVID-19 masks and curfews fuel rage in Huntington Beach - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-24/how-covid-19-masks-curfews-fuel-rage-huntington-beach

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From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom : The Salt : NPR

There are hundreds of these old varieties. The companies grew them in test plots, and they did, in fact, find some that weren't as bitter. They cross-pollinated these old varieties with modern, high-yielding ones, trying to combine the best traits of old and new spruitjes. It took many years. But it worked. "From then on, the taste was much better. It really improved,"

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo

_- Steve

Conspiracy theories: Why beliefs like QAnon flourish — and how to fight them — explained - Vox

https://www.vox.com/21558524/conspiracy-theories-2020-qanon-covid-conspiracies-why

_- Steve

Why I’m mourning the closure of the Arecibo telescope.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/mourning-arecibo-telescope-closure.html

_- Steve

The Hillbilly Elegy Trailer Reaction - Why Hillbilly Elegy Minimizes the Appalachian Experience

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a34371638/hillbilly-elegy-trailer-appalachia-minimization-reaction/

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The Hillbilly Elegy Trailer Reaction - Why Hillbilly Elegy Minimizes the Appalachian Experience

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a34371638/hillbilly-elegy-trailer-appalachia-minimization-reaction/

_- Steve

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Alberta enacts 2nd COVID-19 state of public health emergency. Here’s what it means | Globalnews.ca

https://globalnews.ca/news/7481178/alberta-covid-19-new-restrictions/

_- Steve

Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2 | Science

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/11/23/science.abe2424.full

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The 21 Best Concert Films of All Time - Paste

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/concert-movies/the-best-concert-films-of-all-time/?fbclid=iwar2x8vhkyf7kgv9x01sshgkzcvfgxqhl23xpv6rixcaxtjntpaeiuaw6q6c

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Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence

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The COVID warning Jason Kenney should have heeded

https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/coronavirus-in-canada-these-charts-show-how-our-fight-to-flatten-the-curve-is-going/

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Our favorite affordable tablet is hugely discounted for Black Friday 2020

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Our favorite affordable tablet is hugely discounted for Black Friday 2020

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/reviewedcom/2020/11/24/black-friday-2020-get-amazon-fire-hd-10-big-discount/6391367002/

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Sunday, November 22, 2020

Where did your genetic ancestors come from? | gcbias

https://gcbias.org/2017/12/19/1628/

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Op-Ed: Even the Founders hated the electoral college

Op-Ed: Even the Founders hated the electoral college
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-22/electoral-college-popular-vote-founders-james-madison-great-compromise

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The History Of Vaccines And Immunization: Familiar Patterns, New Challenges | Health Affairs

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.611

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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Bill Gates Wants You to Watch These 9 TED Talks | Inc.com

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/bill-gates-wants-you-to-watch-these-9-ted-talks.html

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Friday, November 20, 2020

» How does altruism evolve? Why Evolution Is True

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/11/20/how-does-altruism-evolve/

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Secretary of State announces results of audit, reaffirms original outcome | WGXA

https://wgxa.tv/news/local/secretary-of-state-announces-results-of-audit-reaffirms-original-outcome

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Quote from The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child, Andrew Child

"He'd never killed anyone with a car. At least not by accident. He'd never had any collisions. Not unintentional ones. His problem was mainly one of temperament. Good driving called for a balance of action and reaction, speed and restraint, measurement and control. A middle ground, stable and sustained. Reacher on the other hand was built for extremes. His default was to move extremely slow or extremely fast. One moment he could appear languid, lazy, almost comatose. The next he could erupt into a frenzy of action, furious, relentless, for as long as necessary, then relapse into serene stillness until the next threat presented itself."

— The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child, Andrew Child
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Quote from The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child, Andrew Child

"The shirt was tight across his shoulders, and also around his gut. It was like he'd once been in shape but was struggling to stay that way and wasn't ready to admit he might not make it."

— The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child, Andrew Child
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Here's How to Think About the Danish Mask Study | MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89778

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RNA vaccine - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine

_- Steve

Fact Sheet: DNA-RNA-Protein – microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network

https://microbe.net/simple-guides/fact-sheet-dna-rna-protein/

_- Steve

How We Can Stop the Spread of Coronavirus by Christmas | Time

https://time.com/5912705/covid-19-stop-spread-christmas/

_- Steve

Here's How to Think About the Danish Mask Study | MedPage Today

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/89778

_- Steve

Working from home with weak internet? There's a device to fix that

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Working from home with weak internet? There's a device to fix that

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/11/19/amazon-google-expect-wifi-mesh-routers-top-holiday-sales/6340659002/

_- Steve

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Oak Flat (Arizona) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Flat_(Arizona)

_- Steve

Avocado Chocolate Mousse - TWO Recipes!

https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/avocado-chocolate-mousse-vegan-healthy/

_- Steve

The Most Delicious Food from Every State | Reader's Digest

https://www.rd.com/list/america-the-tasty/

_- Steve

Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020 - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vision-and-breathing-may-be-the-secrets-to-surviving-2020/

_- Steve

Cuts of steak, ranked worst to best

https://www.mashed.com/230024/cuts-of-steak-ranked-worst-to-best/

_- Steve

64-bit x86 Emulation Officially Coming to Windows on ARM - ExtremeTech

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/315733-64-bit-x86-emulation-officially-coming-to-windows-on-arm

_- Steve

The good news is you can get antigen test results in less than an hour. The bad news is you're more likely to get a false negative with a rapid antigen test.

Don't rely on a negative test result to see your family for Thanksgiving
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/health/thanksgiving-family-covid-testing-wellness/index.html

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Monday, November 16, 2020

2019 was a terrible year for measles. 2021 could be much worse. - Vox

https://www.vox.com/21562101/measles-vaccination-covid-pandemic

_- Steve

Executive Orders by Presidents Are Normal, Not Nefarious. - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-11-16/executive-orders-by-presidents-are-normal-not-nefarious

_- Steve

Sunday, November 15, 2020

The Biggest Industries In The United States - WorldAtlas

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-biggest-industries-in-the-united-states.html

_- Steve

17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators | National Archives

the Senate was seen as a "millionaire's club" serving powerful private interests.

https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/17th-amendment

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Best Netflix original TV shows of 2020 (so far) - Insider

https://www.insider.com/netflix-original-tv-shows-ranked-2020

_- Steve

Google releases predictions of popular holiday gifts from Apple iPhone, PlayStation 5 to Fat Brain Simpl Dimpl

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Google releases predictions of popular holiday gifts from Apple iPhone, PlayStation 5 to Fat Brain Simpl Dimpl

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2020/11/12/google-holiday-shopping-gift-ideas-top-100-predictions-christmas/6248799002/

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Tens of thousands rally in DC to support outgoing President Trump; at least 20 arrested as protesters clash with counter-protesters

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Tens of thousands rally in DC to support outgoing President Trump; at least 20 arrested as protesters clash with counter-protesters

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/14/trump-rally-washington-dc-million-maga-march-updates/6283411002/

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

(PDF) New Evidence on the Jensen Hypothesis: A Note for Social Scientists

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345843737_New_Evidence_on_the_Jensen_Hypothesis_A_Note_for_Social_Scientists

_- Steve

Friday, November 13, 2020

Senate GOP blocks three election security bills | TheHill

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills

_- Steve

Best Arizona wines: These are the 2020 azcentral Arizona Wine Competition winners

Check out this article from azcentral:

Best Arizona wines: These are the 2020 azcentral Arizona Wine Competition winners

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/road-trips/2020/11/13/best-arizona-wines-2020-azcentral-wine-competition-winners/3751352001/

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Social genomics can combat inequality or be used to justify it | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/social-genomics-can-combat-inequality-or-be-used-to-justify-it

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Social genomics can combat inequality or be used to justify it | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/social-genomics-can-combat-inequality-or-be-used-to-justify-it

_- Steve

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Casual models & prob

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2011/2011.02677.pdf

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Outdoors: Taking the scenic route to Fat Man's Loop | Local | azdailysun.com

https://azdailysun.com/news/local/outdoors-taking-the-scenic-route-to-fat-mans-loop/article_f5794ae9-f5fc-59ea-ba52-c62976acbd80.html

_- Steve

How James “the Amazing” Randi Hindered His Own Movement

How James "the Amazing" Randi Hindered His Own Movement

https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/james-amazing-randi-skeptic-movement.html

_- Steve

Monday, November 09, 2020

Pluralistic: 05 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-there/

_- Steve

Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, data show

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-vaccine-from-pfizer-and-biontech-is-strongly-effective-early-data-from-large-trial-indicate/

_- Steve

8 years of suffering under Barack Obama | Teri Carter's Library

https://tericarter.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/8-years-of-suffering-under-obama/

_- Steve

On board with Bill Joy, owner of 58m sailing yacht Ethereal | Boat International

https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/on-board-with-bill-joy-owner-of-58m-sailing-yacht-ethereal--40469

_- Steve

Thinking about moving to Canada after the election? COVID-19 could affect your plans

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Thinking about moving to Canada after the election? COVID-19 could affect your plans

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2020/11/04/election-2020-moving-to-canada-what-to-know/6158968002/

_- Steve

Sunday, November 08, 2020

Campervan

https://newatlas.com/tag/campervan/

_- Steve

Mini camper van powers efficient driving and living for under $40,000

https://newatlas.com/automotive/west-coast-mini-camper-van/

_- Steve

Mini camper van powers efficient driving and living for under $40,000

https://newatlas.com/automotive/west-coast-mini-camper-van/

_- Steve

How Valuable Is High Emotional Intelligence? This Harvard Professor’s Explanation Will Blow Your Mind

How Valuable Is High Emotional Intelligence? This Harvard Professor's Explanation Will Blow Your Mind
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-you-want-to-be-a-butterfly-not-a-genius.html

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Saturday, November 07, 2020

The best TV to watch during the next lockdown | indy100

https://www.indy100.com/article/tv-shows-lockdown-watch-stream-9724121

_- Steve

Friday, November 06, 2020

9 Essential Books To Learn About Our Badly Broken American Political System | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/9-essential-books-to-learn-about-our-badly-broken-american-political-system/

_- Steve

9 Essential Books To Learn About Our Badly Broken American Political System | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/9-essential-books-to-learn-about-our-badly-broken-american-political-system/

_- Steve

Quantum Theory Rebuilt From Simple Physical Principles

http://quantamagazine.org/quantum-theory-rebuilt-from-simple-physical-principles-20170830

_- Steve

Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Lizabeth Scott - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizabeth_Scott

_- Steve

Six Legal Thrillers With Essential Social Messages | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/six-legal-thrillers/

_- Steve

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Back to Basics: Make Cocktails Normal Again - The Bulwark

Back to Basics: Make Cocktails Normal Again - The Bulwark
https://thebulwark.com/back-to-basics-make-cocktails-normal-again/

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Monday, November 02, 2020

He Already Saw the Election as Good vs. Evil. Then His Tractor Burned. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/trump-tractor-fire-nebraska.html

_- Steve

North Carolina’s Police Attack on Election Marchers Had a Long History Behind It

North Carolina's Police Attack on Election Marchers Had a Long History Behind It

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/north-carolina-election-march-attack.html

_- Steve

Donald Trump trashes COVID-19 doctors, compares himself to Jesus

Check out this article from azcentral:

Donald Trump trashes COVID-19 doctors, compares himself to Jesus

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/11/01/donald-trump-trashes-covid-19-doctors-compares-himself-jesus/6111306002/

_- Steve

Sunday, November 01, 2020

New analysis shows ancient dogs and humans shared a surprising bond

https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-dog-dna-reveal

_- Steve

Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html

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Saturday, October 31, 2020

lone star blues delbert mcclinton - Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=lone+star+blues+delbert+mcclinton&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

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Friday, October 30, 2020

Developments Since My Birth | by Wallace Shawn | The New York Review of Books

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/27/election-developments-since-my-birth/

_- Steve

How to stay sane until the election’s over — Nonzero

https://nonzero.org/post/stay-sane-election

_- Steve

The Real Hunter Biden Story Everyone is Missing - Insight

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/ignoringblackmail

_- Steve

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Shane Theriot - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Theriot

_- Steve

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

NPR: Supreme Court allows ballot extensions in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, for now

What made Kavanaugh's opinion particularly noteworthy was that it contained multiple factual and important errors, and misrepresented the views of noted voting rights scholar Richard Pildes.

Supreme Court allows ballot extensions in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, for now
It was the second time the high court refused a GOP effort to block a three-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Pennsylvania. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in either case.

Read in NPR: https://apple.news/AmglvzjBbRjeW3xI72-vA_g

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The Old Friends Hypothesis

http://www.grahamrook.net/OldFriends/oldfriends.html

_- Steve

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Quotes I Have Enjoyed

http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/About/quotes.html

_- Steve

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/americans-have-lost-sight-what-fascism-means/616846/

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Hash Passwords with ASP.NET Membership Providers | ASP.NET Blog

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/hash-passwords-with-asp-net-membership-providers/

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Saturday, October 24, 2020

How The Social Dilemma Got Social Media Mostly Wrong | by Christopher J. Ferguson | Oct, 2020 | Arc Digital

https://arcdigital.media/how-the-social-dilemma-got-social-media-mostly-wrong-3bde48077140

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Axiom Ocularis™ - SimpleShot

https://simple-shot.com/slingshots/1cxxxxxx/axiom-ocularis

_- Steve

The Government’s Case Against Google Is Good

The Government's Case Against Google Is Good

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/google-antitrust-lawsuit-trump.html

_- Steve

Friday, October 23, 2020

Seven Great Thrillers That Take Readers to Far-Flung Places | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/seven-great-thrillers-that-take-readers-to-far-flung-places/

_- Steve

Fracture | Print your photos, in vivid color, directly on glass.

https://fractureme.com/

_- Steve

Interactive analysis needs theories of inference « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/23/interactive-analysis-needs-theories-of-inference/

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml

_- Steve

About Us : JonRocket.com, Model Rocket Kits, Parts, and Accessories

https://jonrocket.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=5

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(27) Hell's coming with me - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ndsXVaPwc

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Questions to Ask Your Partner Instead of ‘How Was Your Day?’ - PureWow

https://www.purewow.com/wellness/questions-to-ask-your-partner?utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=flipboard

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Inside Bob Dylan's Lost Interviews and Unseen Letters - Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bob-dylan-lost-letters-interviews-tony-glover-1074916/

_- Steve

Alcoholism disrupted my scientific career. This is how I got sober

Alcoholism disrupted my scientific career. This is how I got sober
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/10/alcoholism-disrupted-my-scientific-career-how-i-got-sober?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Twitter

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now - The Lancet

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32153-X/fulltext

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA | World Economic Forum

that for solar, the cost of capital is much lower, at 2.6-5.0% in Europe and the US, 4.4-5.5% in China and 8.8-10.0% in India, largely as a result of policies designed to reduce the risk of renewable investments.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea

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Saturday, October 17, 2020

[Letter from Washington] The Enemies Briefcase, By Andrew Cockburn | Harper's Magazine

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/11/the-enemies-briefcase-secret-powers-of-the-presidency/

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The Trump FB

In case you didn't know or remember who Donald John Trump really is.

I copied and paste this from a friend of a friend......

I'm a lifelong Republican. I'm also a veteran. Here's a list of just a few reasons I cannot support the current administration:
• ⁠In May 2020, the White House ended National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits.
• ⁠The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government.
• ⁠The Trump administration fired the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread among the crew.
• ⁠After Iran's retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as "headaches."
• ⁠On July 20, 2017, in room 2E924 of the Pentagon, Trump told a room full of Generals, "You're a bunch of dopes and babies."
• ⁠Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long-standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019).
• ⁠Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection.
• ⁠Trump's Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.
• ⁠There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility.
• ⁠Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump's orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built.
• ⁠On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America's allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey's president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.
• ⁠Trump sent thousands of American troops to defend the oil assets of the country that perpetrated 9/11.
• ⁠In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there's no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn't close to the airport). Trump's golf courses are losing money, so he's forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.
• ⁠In Sept 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump's border wall.
• ⁠In Aug 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump's Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. "They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump's approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio's meddling."
• ⁠Veterans graves will be "dug up" for the border wall after Trump instructed aides to seize private property. Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property.
• ⁠Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019).
• ⁠On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds for the border wall.
• ⁠On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who prosecuted war criminals.
• ⁠Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019).
• ⁠Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019).
• ⁠Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at the 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019).
• ⁠In June 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better "aesthetic appearance."
• ⁠Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019).
• ⁠Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019).
• ⁠Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019).
• ⁠On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain.
• ⁠Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019).
• ⁠Trump purged 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA's enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019).
• ⁠Trump deported a spouse of a fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter without parents (April 16, 2019).
• ⁠On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral.
• ⁠Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise.
• ⁠He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019).
• ⁠He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019).
• ⁠He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019).
• ⁠When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest "cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019).
• ⁠He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019).
• ⁠He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer costs (2018).
• ⁠He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018).
• ⁠He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018).
• ⁠Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018). He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.
• ⁠He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays.
• ⁠He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extra scheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018).
• ⁠He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018).
• ⁠He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018).
• ⁠He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018).
• ⁠While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018).
• ⁠He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018).
• ⁠He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018).
• ⁠Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018).
• ⁠Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018).
• ⁠Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018).
• ⁠He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017).
• ⁠He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017).
• ⁠He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017).
• ⁠He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present).
• ⁠He deported veterans (2017-present).
• ⁠He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016).
• ⁠On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes).
• ⁠Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier." (Aug 2, 2016).
• ⁠Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents), etc. (2016-present).
• ⁠Trump sent funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan 2016).
• ⁠Trump said he has "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military" because he went to a military-style academy (2015 biography).
• ⁠Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015).
• ⁠Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998).
• ⁠For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. 1991.
• ⁠Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.
• ⁠No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service.
• He saluted a North Korean general.
• He stopped joint South Korea training with our troops so if there was a war, they would not be ready to fight it. He says this is to save money?
• Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (9/11/2020) to unilaterally deploy federal troops against American citizens.
• ⁠Trump still has not denounced or even mentioned, the bounty placed on American soldiers by Russia.

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Clarence Thomas Is Begging Someone to Sue Over Conservatives’ Most-Hated Internet Law

Clarence Thomas Is Begging Someone to Sue Over Conservatives' Most-Hated Internet Law

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/clarence-thomas-section-230-cda-content-moderation.html

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Durango, Colorado, fall road trip: 4 don't-miss things to do, plus where to eat and stay

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Durango, Colorado, fall road trip: 4 don't-miss things to do, plus where to eat and stay

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2020/10/12/durango-colorado-road-trip-scenic-drive-things-do-restaurants-hotel/5966635002/

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Friday, October 16, 2020

Here are the top political donors from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Only one is backing Trump. - Protocol

https://www.protocol.com/tech-political-donors-2020-amazon-apple-facebook-google-microsoft

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Sen. Whitehouse on dark money

https://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/05/Sen.-Whitehouse_Dark-Money.pdf

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‘I am concerned’: Expert warns of rising COVID cases in Arizona

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/10/14/rising-covid-cases-arizona-exponential-growth-expert-warns/

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

2021 Spartan Pathways Travel Catalog

https://online.flippingbook.com/view/55977/

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Building the Mathematical Library of the Future | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-the-mathematical-library-of-the-future-20201001/

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WIRED: This Is My Brain on Salvia

This Is My Brain on Salvia
I loaned my head to the world's first fMRI study on the effects of salvinorin A, a potent psychedelic. Here's what it revealed.

Read in WIRED: https://apple.news/AXwDptWrURfms0J9K2o4wCA

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5 of the best fall hikes in Arizona: Here's how to explore these less crowded trails

Check out this article from azcentral:

5 of the best fall hikes in Arizona: Here's how to explore these less crowded trails

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/hiking/2020/10/14/best-fall-hikes-in-arizona-flagstaff-prescott-sedona-and-more/3632322001/

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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Acting U.S. DHS security intelligence chief says he agrees with FBI on white supremacist threat | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-homeland-idUSKBN26N35E

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Monday, October 12, 2020

Flagstaff to Grand Canyon is one of Arizona's most gorgeous drives. Here's how to do it.

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Flagstaff to Grand Canyon is one of Arizona's most gorgeous drives. Here's how to do it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2020/10/12/arizona-scenic-drive-san-francisco-peaks-loop-flagstaff/5939274002/

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

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Saturday, October 10, 2020

The Face of American Insurgency

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/michigan-plot-wolverine-watchmen-whitmer.html

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Friday, October 09, 2020

When You Will Get Your Inheritance After Someone Dies

https://www.thebalance.com/when-will-you-get-your-inheritance-3504965

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Wednesday, October 07, 2020

New timeline on reptile evolution rebuts long-held theories – Harvard Gazette

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/new-timeline-on-reptile-evolution-rebuts-long-held-theories/

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Joe Biden's Gettysburg Speech Was 25 Minutes Long, Didn't Mention Trump Once

Today we're engaged once again in a battle for the soul of the nation, the forces of darkness, the forces of division, the forces of yesterday are pulling us apart, holding us down and holding us back. We must free ourselves of all of them," Biden said.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-gettysburg-trump-1536974

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The “Good Guy with a Gun” Myth | Giffords

https://giffords.org/blog/2020/10/the-good-guy-with-a-gun-myth/

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Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Six Months Later – Youyang Gu

https://youyanggu.com/blog/six-months-later

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Low-cost, free resources and other need-to-knows for trust and estate plans

Check out this article from azcentral:

Low-cost, free resources and other need-to-knows for trust and estate plans

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sponsor-story/watermark-wealth-strategies/2020/10/06/low-cost-free-resources-and-other-need-knows-trust-and-estate-plans/3623295001/

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Monday, October 05, 2020

Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-quantum-entanglement-distant-large.html

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Sunday, October 04, 2020

The Case Against Trump: Donald Trump Is an Enemy of Freedom – Reason.com

https://reason.com/2020/10/04/the-case-against-trump-donald-trump-is-an-enemy-of-freedom/

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Saturday, October 03, 2020

Helton Brewing | Helton Brewing Company - Your Neighborhood Brewery!

https://heltonbrewing.com/

— Steve Smith

Friday, October 02, 2020

Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI - The Long Now

https://longnow.org/seminars/02020/aug/12/4th-industrial-revolution-responsible-secure-ai/?fbclid=IwAR26-EK69PiV15j7IWDTF9kw7CAEK8EDa0tk9nA9So09xPSWElnSH9KI1cQ

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50 Photos Taken From Drone That Reveal More Than Expected - DailyBee

https://en.dailybee.com/50-photos-taken-from-drone-that-reveal-more-than-expected

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Thursday, October 01, 2020

In a pandemic we learn again what Sartre meant by being free | Psyche Ideas

https://psyche.co/ideas/in-a-pandemic-we-learn-again-what-sartre-meant-by-being-free

In short, the pandemic enables us to see more clearly the difference between the hollow freedom to act without impediment and the true freedom to act in accordance with our all-things-considered judgments. The American philosopher Harry Frankfurt in 1971 illuminated the difference with his distinction between the things that we simply want and the ones that, after consideration, we want to want. For instance, if I want a doughnut and eat it, I'm simply following my desires, the wants I find myself having at any given moment. But if, on reflection, I don't want to eat junk food (or, at least, not often) then I have the capacity to veto these wants in the light of what I know I want to want. This kind of freedom requires self-restraint. A person without this capacity is not truly free but is what Frankfurt calls a 'wanton': a slave to his desires.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Six Overshadowed & Undercelebrated Songs by Joni Mitchell « American Songwriter

https://americansongwriter.com/six-overshadowed-undercelebrated-songs-by-joni-mitchell/

_- Steve

This Ford F-550 Camper Custom Has Over 100 Gallons Of Water Storage For Off-Grid Exploration

This Ford F-550 Camper Custom Has Over 100 Gallons Of Water Storage For Off-Grid Exploration
https://hiconsumption.com/ford-f-550-camper-custom/

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Jeff Goodell in Conversation With Climate Scientist Kate Marvel - Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kate-marvel-climate-scientist-jeff-goodell-interview-1064266/

_- Steve

We Can't Solve the Climate Crisis Unless Black Lives Matter | Time

https://time.com/5864705/climate-change-black-lives-matter/

_- Steve

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour ~ Whiskey

https://youtu.be/6mtOPFYovrA

_- Steve

Door Gap Sealing Strip - Ottuz

https://ottuz.co/product/door-gap-sealing-strip/

_- Steve

Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett and the New, Old Anti-Catholicism - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/sunday/amy-coney-barrett-catholic-supreme-court.html

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

‘300-foot flames coming at us’: The battle to save Mt. Wilson from the Bobcat fire

'300-foot flames coming at us': The battle to save Mt. Wilson from the Bobcat fire
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-26/the-battle-to-save-mt-wilson-from-the-bobcat-fire

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Arizona voters now can wear political garb to polls

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20120504arizona-voters-political-clothing.html

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Great Divide: The Origin of Our Planetary Split – Now. Powered by Northrop Grumman

https://now.northropgrumman.com/the-great-divide-the-origin-of-our-planetary-split/

_- Steve

FATEA - Home

http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/reviews/SurrenderHill2/?fbclid=IwAR2eYWfgsC_gWwwlnuh0lnhILqaj8FmEJAfN2JcvfeXT9qtlQVL5MH5IJ4g

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33-1813 - Removal of board member; special meeting

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/33/01813.htm

_- Steve

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

500 Best Albums of All Time - Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/jay-z-the-blueprint-3-1063183/

_- Steve

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

What Every Spouse Needs To Know About Inheriting IRAs

Surviving spouses follow the same rule if the deceased spouse had already reached the age to begin RMDs, 70½. But when the spouse passed away before reaching RMD age, the surviving spouse doesn't have to begin RMDs from the inherited IRA until the deceased spouse would have been age 70½
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcarlson/2018/09/18/what-every-spouse-needs-to-know-about-inheriting-iras/

_- Steve

Sunday, September 20, 2020

How the iPhone GPS differs from a standalone navigation GPS – tewha.net

https://tewha.net/2011/10/how-the-iphone-gps-differs-from-a-standalone-navigation-gps/

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

The Inside Story of the 25-Year, $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-library-books-maps-artworks-180975506/

_- Steve

Coconino map loc

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3810866.pdf

_- Steve

Friday, September 18, 2020

How to use some of the best new features in iOS 14

How to use some of the best new features in iOS 14
https://www.cultofmac.com/723101/how-to-use-best-features-ios-14/

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

A load of old codswallop? Revising codswallop, n. | Oxford English Dictionary

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-load-of-old-codswallop/

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A load of old codswallop? Revising codswallop, n. | Oxford English Dictionary

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-load-of-old-codswallop/

_- Steve

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

VPM - Good Vapes for The Good Stuff™ | Best Vapes for or Oil, Herb, Wax

https://www.vpm.com/

_- Steve

Monday, September 14, 2020

The Best Free Flight Simulators of 2020 | Digital Trends

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/best-free-flight-simulators/

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One More Reason Not to Vote for Walt Blackman – Coconino County Democratic Party

https://coconinodemocrats.org/2020/09/13/one-more-reason-not-to-vote-for-walt-blackman/

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Saturday, September 12, 2020

Canyons and Ice

http://www.canyonsandice.com/documentary.php

_- Steve

Terrorism in America 19 Years After 9/11

http://newamerica.org/international-security/reports/terrorism-america-19-years-after-911/

_- Steve

The 2020 Ballot - CEBV

https://www.cebv.us/2020.html

_- Steve

How Mosquitoes Changed Everything | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/how-mosquitoes-changed-everything

_- Steve

The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020: Fall Preview | CrimeReads

https://crimereads.com/the-most-anticipated-crime-books-of-2020-fall-preview/

_- Steve

Friday, September 11, 2020

A Churchill 'Quote' That U.S. Politicians Will Never Surrender : It's All Politics : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/10/28/241295755/a-churchill-quote-that-u-s-politicians-will-never-surrender

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Travel + Leisure: You Can Drink Whisky and Visit Castles on This Epic 84-mile Bike Tour in Scotland

You Can Drink Whisky and Visit Castles on This Epic 84-mile Bike Tour in Scotland
Riding along mostly quiet country roads, the _Whisky and Burns_ route is designed for cyclists of all abilities.

Read in Travel + Leisure: https://apple.news/Aw-XMbsb5ReuQh5m6m_neXg

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