Physicists extend stochastic thermodynamics deeper into quantum territory | Lisa Zyga

Thermodynamic laws that describe heat and energy are being extended to the quantum scale. Source: Pexels. Photograph by Paweł Kadysz Feb. 13, 2018 {Phys.org) -- Physicists have extended one of the mo ...

Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 12, 2018 A peculiar feature of the human condition is that a society in distress will call forth intellectual witch-doctors to put on a colorful show th ...

Shale Is A Retirement Party For The Oil Industry | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 9, 2018 As of this week, the shale oil miracle launched U.S. oil production above the 1970 previous-all-time record at just over 10 million barrels a da ...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

Stormy Weather | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 29, 2018 For those of us who are not admirers of President Trump, it’s even more painful to see the Democratic opposition descend i ...

Happy Landings | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 The blow-off orgy in the stock markets is supposedly America’s consolation prize for what many regard as the electoral bad ...

Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle | James Howard Kunstler

'The Long Emergency' back cover photo On America's 'long emergency' of recession, globalization, and identity politics. James Howard Kunstler -- American Conservative Dec. 21, 2017 Nobody knows, from ...

Blow Back | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 22, 2018 Is there any doubt that the Democratic Party will be blamed for the government shutdown brought on by the DACA showdown? T ...

The world's most powerful acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humans | University of Bristol

Working principle of virtual vortices: intertwined short vortices of opposite directions are emitted to trap and stabilize the particle. Credit: University of Bristol Jan. 22, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Acou ...

Fever Pitch | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 19, 2018 In case you’re worked up about the looming federal government shutdown, this is exactly how we’re supposed to roll in the ...

Who Moved My Xanax? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 12, 2018 The moral panic of “the Resistance” is back in DefCon 1 mode overnight just as the righteousness orgasm of the Golden Glob ...