2025.02.15
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‘Thought crime’ and cancelled elections: how do JD Vance’s claims about Europe stand up?
US vice-president told litany of tales of Europe’s rights infringements in speech to leaders at defence gathering
Daniel Boffey and Alexandra Topping
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/thought-and-cancelled-elections-how-do-jd-vances-europe-claims-stand-up
Previous victim of woman linked to death of journalist says he tried to warn public
David Butler survived being drugged and robbed in 2021 by Danette Colbert, now tied to death of Adan Manzano
Ramon Antonio Vargas in Kenner, Louisiana
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/adan-manzano-super-bowl-journalist
British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother
Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat it
Robin McKie Science editor
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/15/british-professor-paul-workman-cancer-breakthrough-chordoma
Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles
Trend towards more extreme-weather events will continue to hit crop yields and create price spikes, Inverto says
Damien Gayle
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say
Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age
QOTD: "Helium is less flammable than hydrogen, but there is a trade-off for this increased safety. "
Mark Piesing
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250214-pathfinder-1-the-airship-that-could-usher-in-a-new-age
‘Thought crime’ and cancelled elections: how do JD Vance’s claims about Europe stand up?
US vice-president told litany of tales of Europe’s rights infringements in speech to leaders at defence gathering
Daniel Boffey and Alexandra Topping
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/thought-and-cancelled-elections-how-do-jd-vances-europe-claims-stand-up
Previous victim of woman linked to death of journalist says he tried to warn public
David Butler survived being drugged and robbed in 2021 by Danette Colbert, now tied to death of Adan Manzano
Ramon Antonio Vargas in Kenner, Louisiana
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/adan-manzano-super-bowl-journalist
British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother
Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat it
Robin McKie Science editor
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/15/british-professor-paul-workman-cancer-breakthrough-chordoma
Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles
Trend towards more extreme-weather events will continue to hit crop yields and create price spikes, Inverto says
Damien Gayle
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say
Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age
QOTD: "Helium is less flammable than hydrogen, but there is a trade-off for this increased safety. "
Mark Piesing
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250214-pathfinder-1-the-airship-that-could-usher-in-a-new-age
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Date: 2025-02-15 09:34 pm (UTC)Well!
Date: 2025-02-15 11:32 pm (UTC)I sent Geri Sullivan a link to an AR episode that showed some memorabilia from R101, which neither of us were familiar with, and she sent me a book on it (and the other ships of the era). The author, obviously not an airship lover, catalogs the money spent, the ships and people lost, and the general problems with airships, size being one of them. (Helium ships have to be larger than hydrogen because it has much less lift.) Idiot males also seem attracted to them for some inexplicable reason.