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On this day in history… December 01 1783 – Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his 1st book of fairy tales 1878 – 1st White House telephone...

     An extremely low cost way to recycle spent nuclear fuel, and bring fresh water to the west.                                                                                                                    Originated 4-15-07.    This paper describes...

Plus ad woes and household toxics. And as with today’s InSecurityWatch, a long post cuz we wuz under the weather. We open with the first Ebola story, via the Los Angeles Times: Spanish priest becomes first European to die in Ebola outbreak A 75-year...

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

It's Vegas Baby! - Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas3rd - 9th July It's Vegas Baby! So we landed into Vegas from Dallas. Fortunately the weather change was only going to be from a humid heat to a dry heat, we were estimating a possible higher temperature...