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I finished McMoneagle’s book yesterday, but as a person with military background he should have been aware about all the possibilities of Kim’s Game which supposedly have been quite widely used as an element in sniper and tracking (the art of learning about a place via animal trails and other…[Read more]

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Intermittent fasting: live ‘fast,’ live longer?

by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-intermittent-fasting-fast-longer.html

For many people, the New Year is a time to adopt new habits as a renewed commitment to personal health. Newly enthusiastic fitness buffs pack into gyms…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvPw0iADvtQ

…more than 1.5 million people watched the premiere of HBO’s critically acclaimed new series Watchmen. Alan Moore was not one of them…

…language in his contract with DC said the rights to the story would revert back to Moore and Gibbons once it went out of print, but Moore soon realized the p…[Read more]

How gardeners are reclaiming agriculture from industry, one seed at a time

DECEMBER 18, 2019

by Helen Anne Curry, The Conversation

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-gardeners-reclaiming-agriculture-industry-seed.html

Agriculture has changed significantly in the past century. Bigger machines, bigger farms and bigger budgets allow fewer farmers to…[Read more]

Changes in the immune system explain why belly fat is bad for thinking

DECEMBER 17, 2019

by Whitney Baxter, Iowa State University

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-immune-belly-fat-bad.html

Iowa State researchers have found for the first time that less muscle and more body fat may affect how flexible our thinking gets as we become…[Read more]

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_matter-

Active matter is composed of large numbers of active “agents”, each of which consumes energy in order to move or to exert mechanical forces. Due to the energy consumption, these systems are intrinsically out of thermal equilibrium. Examples of active matter are schools of fish, flocks of birds,…[Read more]

…the Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980…

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege-

Stray Cats – Storm The Embassy

Fifteen man taken captive in a hostile foreign land
Scorchin’ sun beaming down onto miles and miles of sand
A mideast country being ruled
By a…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZlKRzoHm0

The Purulia arms drop happened on 17 December 1995 when unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in Purulia district in the state of West Bengal in India. The chief accused “Kim Davy” (real name Niels Holck, alias Niels Christian Nielsen) claims that it was a conspiracy of the…[Read more]

Updated: Mar 23, 2013 02:28 IST

Abhishek Sharan, Hindustan Times

Want Kim Davy? Put him up in 5-star: Denmark

Denmark says its ready to fast-track the extradition of Purulia arms drop case “mastermind” Kim Davy, provided India promises to lodge him in a five-star hotel during the period of trial, HT has lea…[Read more]

The term biosphere was created to describe the totality of living things on Earth by Vladimir Vernadsky, a Russian scientist, in the 1920s. The biosphere refers to the one global ecological system in which all living things are interdependent to a greater or lesser…[Read more]