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Yet Another US Airline Does The Indecent Thing

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“The video of the American Airlines encounter starts off with a woman sobbing as she holds a baby.”Just give me back my stroller please,” she says tearfully. A male passenger stands up and intervenes, apparently upset with how the woman’s situation … Continue reading →

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Diss United

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Robert Pogson

I hate a lot. I hate M$, BillG, Intel, That Other OS, things that don’t work, stuff like that. Today, I saw how United Airlines treats passengers and operates more like a criminal gang than a proper business. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Magic Bullets Gain Velocity

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Scientists have recruited modified bacteria to help fight cancer, which successfully infiltrated tumors and activated the immune system to kill malignant cells, a new study reports. Tumors size decreased below detectable limits in 11 out of 20 mice that received … Continue reading →

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Global Warmth Reached Here

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“A stretch of mild weather that significantly shrank the city’s monstrous snowbanks and turned roads and sidewalks into a sodden mess also marked the longest January period of above 0 C temperatures since 1873.” See 67 hours above freezing a record … Continue reading →

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Diving After DB Cooper

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“The scientific team has been analyzing particles removed from the clip-on tie left behind by Cooper after he hijacked a Northwest Orient passenger jet in November 1971. A powerful electron microscope located more than 100,000 particles on old the JCPenny tie. … Continue reading →

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!$%####@! Snow-mobilers!

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Robert Pogson

I have a corner lot. The road turns sharply at the corner and the ditch is narrow. That doesn’t give permission to the snow-mobilers to trespass on my yard but they’ve done it the last two winters. I was out … Continue reading →

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The Big Game

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Robert Pogson

Chuckle. I just opened some spam in my “inbox”. It was an ad from Wal-mart, entitled, “Prepare for the Big Game”. I use a lot of zoom so my instinct was to extrapolate that as Big Game Hunt, feast, whatever, … Continue reading →

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Mining Water On Mars

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“Scientists examined part of Mars’ Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter’s ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument. Analyses of data from more than 600 overhead passes with the onboard radar instrument reveal a deposit more extensive in … Continue reading →

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Arwa! Are You Trying To Kill Us With Worry?

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“For more than 28 hours, CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon and photojournalist Brice Laine were with Iraqi special forces during their push into ISIS-held Mosul. It was a new phase of the liberation operation — switching from villages and … Continue reading →

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Saving The Old Folks

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“Experts are cautious because the drug, Aducanumab, is still in the early stages of development.But a study in Nature has shown it is safe and hinted that it halts memory decline.Larger studies are now under way to fully evaluate the … Continue reading →

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Birds etc.

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Robert Pogson

I was fiddling with my Odroid-C2 yesterday when out of the corner of my eye I saw a small “something” on the patio. Closer inspection revealed it was a young tree swallow. They aren’t great flyers on the first day. … Continue reading →

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Trump Plans To Ruin USA

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“he saw no way to fix the pending 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that he was willing to withdraw from the decades-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico if it was not renegotiated to his satisfaction.” See … Continue reading →

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