Why Are Trucks So Big?

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Stock Market & Investments  •  106 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  last year

“CAFE is very, very stupid!”

Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Stock Market & Investments  •  6 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“The Trump administration has updated its guidance on tariffs to exclude popular consumer tech, including that imported from China, like smartphones...”

D'ya think Tim Cook had anything to do with this latest 180°?? Wanna bet that TVs will also be excluded? Ya know, all the cheap stuff from China. There are links in the seed.

This is called "capital flight"

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  24 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

“It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.”

I saw an article in Le Monde saying that Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the EU Commission - the closest thing the EU has to a Prime Minister - is holding talks with senior officials from China' Finance Ministry. I wonder what they're talking about...

Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to Creationists Arguments

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

“It is often reported that the existence of the camera-style eye, the eye that we see in many vertebrates as well as cephalopods like octopuses, is...”

It Makes a Kind of Sense -- The Trump Tariff Tier List

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Stock Market & Investments  •  2 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  last year

“I don't know if this makes it more or less overwhelming, but it helped me! (I think...who knows, maybe not...what a mess.)”

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

“President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears...”

Homeland security apparently used British man's tattoo to identify alleged gang members

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  14 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  last year

“'Average man from Derbyshire' shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child's birth was used to deport migrants”

The Third-Worlding of America

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  14 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  last year

“How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months”

The Return of the Great American Stomachache

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  19 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  last year

“ The F.D.A. has already indicated that it will conduct fewer food and drug safety investigations because of its greatly reduced staff.”

The Reptilian Renaissance

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Pets & Animals  •  5 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  last year

“Think reptiles like crocodiles and caimans are slow learners? It's probably because you're human.”

The world continues to turn, so my in-box is not just overflowing, but lost under my usual couple hundred headlines per day, now augmented by Trump's nonsense. BUT! I shall seed non-political! There are links in the seed.