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I started wearing my wristwatch again this weekend. It’s been a little over 10 years since my accident, that’s the last time I wore a watch every day.
Being the obsessive compulsive that I am, I naturally went to the atomic clock online to set the time. You never know when we may have [...]

Hi all! This month I have a collection of popular science physics lectures, that do not require much math knowledge.The videos include: Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lectures, an interview with Richard Feynman, young Albert Einstein, explanation of Schrodinger’s cat, ferrofluid, a trip inside LHC, quantum computing, upcoming revolutions in theoretical physics, multiverse and parallel universes, 100

Independent:
Libya has hinted for the first time that it is considering compensating the families of IRA victims in recognition that it armed the terrorists. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi supplied arms and explosives to Irish republican paramilitaries during the Troubles and the recent release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, has seen renewed calls for an [...]

NY Times:
The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, said Monday that conditions on the ground were “serious” but that the war here is still winnable, part of a long-awaited assessment of the American-led war.
Officials in Washington say that while the general’s classified report did not request additional American troops, it effectively lays the [...]

LA Times:
The general in charge of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan said Monday that progress was being made in wresting a key southern province from Taliban control but cautioned that the process was slow and difficult to measure.
Marine Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland also said the Marine Corps was ready to send more troops to Afghanistan if [...]

Winnipeg Free Press:
If you’ve been of the opinion that the weather in Winnipeg has never been so bad — you’re right.
Environment Canada says that Winnipeg will set a local record today for nine consecutive months of below-seasonal temperatures.
“You’ve never had nine consecutive months of below-seasonal temperatures before,” meteorologist Alyssa Charbonneau said this morning.
Charbonneau said the [...]

AFP:
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi blasted Israel at a special African Union summit on Monday on the eve of celebrations to mark his 40-year rule, accusing the Jewish state of causing all the woes facing Africa.
Israel is “behind all of Africa’s conflicts,” Kadhafi told some 30 African leaders gathered under a huge tent at Tripoli airport [...]

John Gizzi:
The week of August 17 was a special one for the men in uniform who are considered the fathers of the modern Special Operations Forces so critical to today’s armed forces: The Marine Raiders, whose heroism in World War II was saluted with the opening of Raider Hall at the Marine Corps base in [...]

Irwin Stelzer:
$2,000,000,000,000. That’s the amount by which the Obama administration raised its ten-year estimate of the nation’s budget deficit from the one it made only a few months ago. Now, $2 trillion is a lot of money. But even more significant is the fact that this revision represents almost a 30 percent increase — [...]

Craig Hines:
Oh, Kay! What have you gotten yourself into?
The simple answer is that Kathryn Ann “Kay” Bailey Hutchison, a Republican and senior U.S. senator from Texas, has entered the race for governor back home, a job she long has yearned to hold. But that’s where the simple part ends.
A more realistic answer, at the moment, [...]