Topic

World

A collection of 15 issues

Deutschland Rising?

The optics are not good when Germans start polishing helmets and carry torches at night.

Omicron Journal

A short daily journal about the Omicron Variant as it unfolds.

Raskolnikov's Dream

Raskolnikov's dream of a plague "...from the depths of Asia" in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, 1866 > He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. All were to be destroyed except a very few chosen.

It Can't Happen Here

9/11 "didn't happen here" for most of the country but the impact was still immense and profound.

There is talk of NYC quarantine today

The World Has Shifted (COVID-19s Impact On Our Future)

Only a few times in our lives do we experience something that radically changes our view of the future. Right now, as I write this, the world is threatened by a new, unknown virus (COVID-19) that will change our lives forever. While prior disasters such as the Christmas Day Tsunami

Project Bluebeam Test Run

Project Bluebeam in full effect. Christ-like figure appears in clouds over Argentina Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9083738/christ-like-figure-appears-in-clouds/

Zooming in on Andromeda Galaxy

Pretty cool zoom in on Andromeda Galaxy via the Hubble Telescope. If it seems fake to you - consider that you can see Andromeda with a pair of binoculars on a clear night. Imagine what the Hubble can see from space? The Hubble image of the galaxy is the biggest

Stuff Not In the News (GITMO EU - DANISH EDITION)

Denmark to banish foreign criminals to remote island Foreign criminals sentenced to deportation are to be banished to a remote island off the coast of Denmark, the country's government has announced. Finance minister Kristian Jensen said the criminals will be detained at a facility on Lindholm, an uninhabited seven-hectare island

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 ......