From the hearts and minds of men: Nuking civilians | Mickey Z.

Atomic bombing survivor. Image credit: The Human Survival Project On Planet Patriarchy, males dominate. Thus, our decisions and inventions impact all forms of life 24/7. This series of articles will ...

Amerika's Jacob's Ladder | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2017 In Adrian Lyne's 1990 drama, Jacob's Ladder, Tim Robbins plays a haunted Vietnam War vet mourning his dead son, while sufferin ...

Bitcoin Soars Past $12,000 as Futures Move Closer to Reality | Dave Liedtka

Dec. 6, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin surpassed $12,000 for the first time amid speculation that the widespread use of futures will help lead to digital currencies being viewed as a legitimate asset cl ...

‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2017 Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency tr ...

Physicists set new record with 10-qubit entanglement | Lisa Zyga

False-color circuit image showing 10 superconducting qubits (star shapes) interconnected by a central bus resonator B (gray). Credit: Song et al. ©2017 American Physical Society (Phys.org) -- Physici ...

BOOKS: Notes On A Foreign Country, by Suzy Hansen | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2017 I don’t very often publish book reviews but, in this case, I believe this book to be of great value to anyone trying to make sense of where our country ...

Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system | Rob Weryk

A/2017 U1 is most likely of interstellar origin. Approaching from above, it was closest to the Sun on Sept. 9. Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away fr ...

Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought | Robin Allaby

Credit: University of Warwick Oct. 23, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to 30,000 years ago -- around ten millennia before experts pr ...

More than 600 new periodic orbits of the famous three-body problem | XiaoMing Li

Brief overview of the six newly-found families of periodic three-body orbits. Blue line: orbit of Body-1; red line: orbit of Body-2; black line: orbit of Body-3 Credit: ©Science China Press Oct. 12, ...

HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by Pentagon | Joel Schectman, Dustin Volz, Jack Stubbs

Oct. 2, 2017 -- WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise allowed a Russian defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software used by the Pentagon to guard its com ...

IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency | Jeffrey A. Tucker

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (official portrait 2011) Bitcoin 'puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today.' Sept. 30, 2017 (FEE) -- In a r ...