Click Here to Read: Something Weird Is Happening on Venus: The discovery of a strange gas in its atmosphere puts the planet “into the realm of a perhaps inhabited world,” a researcher says. by Marina Koren on the Atlantic website on September 14, 2020 .
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Dear colleagues,
In terms of doing something- a good friend’s son was involved in this video production on the COVID19 response of the president and his staff. I’ve been told they would like it as widely disseminated as possible. I think it speaks very well to the dangers we are all facing. It is called American Pathogen
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I do think we need to be very careful of both wild analysis and thinking we as analysts are unique in our knowledge and viewpoints. But we must do something and being effective advocates of change and ethics and truth, should be the task of everyone including analysts.
It is a dangerous situation, but not 1933 Germany. It is 2020 which makes it frightening in a different way. The climate issues, systemic Continue reading American Pathogen
Click Here to Read: Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: The Berserker Hypothesis By Matt Williams on the Universe Today on August 22, 2020.
An engraving of an image shown on a Vendel era bronze plate discovered in Öland, Sweden. Depicted are a berserker about to decapitate his enemy on the right and Oden on the left. Oden’s famous characters markers are not present. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: ‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic By Jon Cohen on the AAAS Science website on May. 22, 2020.
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Click Here to Read: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back: The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found Story by Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal on the Atlantic website on August 14, 2020.
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