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There’s an Evolutionary Reason Why You Listen to Some Songs on Repeat

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The first time you heard Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off,” you barely noticed. Then the song made its undercover assault, seeming to play in every grocery store, on every radio, and in every TV commercial you saw — and before you realized it, you were bobbing your head to the music. Soon, you were seeking it out, playing it over and over when no one else was around. Years later, you still can’t get enough of that Taylor Swift goodness. Never mind your questions about whether this story is autobiographical; the real question is this: What makes you want to repeat some songs over and over again while other songs go stale? The answer may lie in evolution.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/theres-an-evolutionary-reason-why-you-listen-to-some-songs-on-repeat-curiosity

We Just Found a City-Sized Asteroid Crater Hiding Under Greenland’s Ice

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Everyone knows that a giant asteroid killed (most of) the dinosaurs. And this 1980 Chevy Malibu is proof that it wasn’t the last chunk of rock to crash down to the surface of the planet. Now, a new discovery suggests that a meteorite impact has been hiding practically in plain sight since the end of the last geological era. And it’s friggin’ huge.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/we-just-found-a-city-sized-asteroid-crater-hiding-under-greenlands-ice-curiosity

Entangled Quantum Particles Can “Communicate” Through Time

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In the world you know, actions have causes and effects, objects exist as one thing or another, and everything is what it is whether you observe it or not. In the quantum world, those rules go out the window. Take quantum entanglement, for example. You can make two quantum particles interact, then put them at opposite ends of the universe, and measure one. Whatever measurement you get, the other particle takes on a corresponding quality instantaneously, no matter the distance. Well, forget distance — particles can even be entangled through time.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/entangled-quantum-particles-can-communicate-through-time-curiosity

NASA Now Says They See a Cooling Trend – Not Warming | Armstrong Economics

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“We see a cooling trend,” Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center said in late September. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.” … …. Ron Turner a Senior Science Advisor to NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, said at the time that this solar cycle was “among the weakest on record,” noting that in the 23 solar cycles since recording began in 1755, there were very few solar maxima weaker than that recorded in 2014. As a consequence, scientists are predicting one of the coldest periods ever recorded for our upper atmosphere – and that means cooler temperatures down here, too. “We’re not there quite yet,” Mlynczak said about the anticipated record low thermosphere temperatures, “but it could happen in a matter of months.” …
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/nasa-now-says-they-see-a-cooling-trend-not-warming/

…….and then there is this with Trump managing NASA instead of Obama

You Cannot Understand Global Warming without understanding the Second Law of Thermodynamics | Armstrong Economics

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COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I came across this guy Richard Lindzen and it struck me he was asking people the same question about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. He concluded that very few people who appear to be scientists or educated can even answer the question but still profound to be experts on Global Warming. It is impossible to argue for Global Warming if you cannot even describe what is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Thank you for opening our minds. HW REPLY: Yes you are absolutely correct. I assume you are referring to a comment I have made at WEC events about a major public corporation directed its Chief Financial Officer to meet with me after he lost probably 10% of the company’s funds on currency. I met with the CFO and of course, it was hostile at first. He had to acknowledge our track record but he rebutted that every single forecast for 20 years could have been coincidence or luck. When I saw it was really going nowhere but I sensed he was not a smart-ass of stupid, I asked him what was his background. He hesitated and lowered his voice to reply he went to school and had a degree in nuclear physics. I said great – “Let’s now look at the markets from the perspective of the Second Law of Thermodynamics!” It may have taken him all of 15 seconds for his mouth to drop and out came the words – OMG, there has to be a cycle! I said absolutely! This is the entire problem with the Global Warming crowd. They have bogus data only back to the second half of the 1800s and they have ZERO comprehension of the dynamics of the system. Then you have people like Al Gore preaching on a subject in which he has never even taken a course in school yet knows everything there is to know. Welcome to the new world order where these people have determined the best way to save the planet is to eliminate humans. They are working hard on trying to figure out how to accomplish that without standing trial for genocide. Just in case they do not understand what that word means the definition = the deliberate killing of a large group of people. In their case, anyone in the industrialized world.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/you-cannot-understand-global-warming-without-understanding-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/

Of Men, Monkeys, and Jared Diamond – The Imaginative Conservative

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For the twenty-first-century disciple of Darwin, man—though he possesses no essential, intrinsic worth that separates him from his chimpanzee cousins—has proven himself a most effective destroyer of that very mother nature who evolved him into his present form… (essay by Louis Markos)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/men-monkeys-third-chimpanzee-jared-diamond-louis-markos.html

Our Galaxy Is Headed for a Collision, and New Research Shows What It Will Look Like

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Our Milky Way galaxy is going to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. There’s no need to panic — it won’t happen for several billion years — but astronomers do want to know what things will look like once the galaxies merge. Luckily, astronomers just found a bunch of merging galaxies that will better help them predict what will happen when the big collision finally comes to our neighborhood.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/our-galaxy-is-headed-for-a-collision-and-new-research-shows-what-it-will-look-like-curiosity