Potential link between brain trauma and degenerative brain disease revealed | Elisa Zanier

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 1, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A landmark study published in the journal Brain from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research of Milan and the University of Gl ...

Was the 2016 election legitimate? It's now definitely worth asking the question | Virginia Heffernan

Credit: Talking Points MemoJuly 28, 2018 (Los Angeles Times) -- We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President Don ...

Russia and the far right’s cozy affair | E.J. Dionne Jr.

Image: Los Angeles TimesJuly 29, 2018 (Washington Post) -- The links among Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the American conservative movement seem bizar ...

The Kek Wars, Part Two: In the Shadow of the Cathedral | John Michael Greer

July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...

Did a rogue star change the makeup of our solar system? | Bob Yirka

Effect of a prograde, parabolic fly-by of a star with a) M=0.5 M, b) M2= 1, Mand c) M2= 5 M that is inclined by 60 degrees and has an angle of periastron equal zero. The perihelion distance is alwa ...

The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents | John Michael Greer

Pepe the FrogJuly 18, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes ...

Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen | Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 10, 2018 A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Inst ...

U.S. grand jury indicts 12 Russian spies in 2016 election hacking | David Shepardson

Flag of Russia. July 13, 2018 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A federal grand jury Friday indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers on charges of hacking the computer networks of 2016 Democratic ...

Fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain | Laura Graham

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 13, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The only thing that causes weight gain is fat consumption, a new study finds. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Aca ...

Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone

Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warmi ...

Nuclear Calendar -- June 28, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar June 28, 2018 June 26-29 House considers FY 2019 Defense appropriations bill (estimate). June 28 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Harvey, "Six Months After the NPR," Mitchell Nuclear Deterrence ...