Tech You Are 100% Trackable By Your Phone T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country.
World Zooming in on Andromeda Galaxy This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.
Culture “Lessons of History” by Will & Ariel Durant History is a cycle of wealth accumulation by the strong/smart and eventual concentration to the few where a tipping point ends in either revolution or redistribution
World Stuff Not In the News (GITMO EU - DANISH EDITION) Foreign criminals sentenced to deportation are to be banished to a remote island off the coast of Denmark, the country's government has announced.
Culture Peter Thiel's Macro Worldview The definite optimist has a concrete plan for the future and strongly believes in that future being better than today.
World Stuff You Don't Hear About in the News (in US) German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday proposed that France give up its permanent seat on the UN Security Council ......
World China and Trump's Creative Destruction So which is the real Mr Trump? The reckless reactionary destroying critical alliances, or the “stable genius” who is pressuring China? The answer seems to depend on where you ask the question. Things look different from Beijing than from Brussels.
World On Bush 41 An 'Anchor to Windward' As he was for our nation and world during four years of tumultuous and historic change, so, too, has Kennebunkport served, in the words of St. Paul, "as anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast" to him.
World Stuff You Don't Hear About In The News BMW CEO supports BREXIT and is open to the idea of a second manufacturing plant in the US.
Tech Peaceful Robots ......training to shoot is a way of teaching the robot to instantaneously prioritize targets and make decisions.
History On Man-Sized Lobsters Circa 1450 New York fishermen hauled in foot-long lobsters, which they preferred for“serving at table” because they were more convenient to eat than the five and six-foot lobsters they also caught.
History On Small Things Turning Into Something Big You know something, Finley,” King said,“this could turn into something big.
Culture Kurt Cobain Letter to William Burroughs A hand typed letter from Kurt Cobain to William Burroughs.
Culture The Blue Drift Even though he had lived all his life on the world of Synnax, which circled a star at the edges of the Blue Drift, he was not cut off from civilization, you see. At that time, no place in the Galaxy was.