Global Climate Change.

Is this an inconvenient truth for the global warming crowd? Are people open minded enough to be swayed by science or has global warming become dogma?

Tug of war between Lions and a Crocodile

Spooky Action at a Distance

Quantum Computers when they are finally perfected in the next 20 years or so, will be able to crack todays commonly used cryptography, so for example everything you do on the internet would then be susceptible to someone intercepting and decrypting it.

Quantum cryptography, which could replace current cryptography, has distance limits, and is based on a property of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "Spooky Action at a Distance".

New Record for Quantum Cryptography: Researchers take a big step toward their goal of spy-proof communications via satellites. Link

Space Exploration

A list of the top 10 technologies that are needed to speed up space exploration.

LTC Doug Crissman arrests General Hamid in Iraq

This one article about LTC Doug Crissman arresting General Hamid in Hit will tell you more about the dynamic of what is going on in Iraq then any number of news stories. It is by Michael Yon an independant blogger/reporter. He does not work for any news organization. He is exclusively funded and paid by bloggers like you or I who hit his tip jar. When you're done reading the story here you can read an email from LTC Doug Crissman on the aftermath here.

Segregation or Apartheid?

LA Times writer Megan K. Stack in Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — THE hem of my heavy Islamic cloak trailed over floors that glistened like ice. I walked faster, my eyes fixed on a familiar, green icon. I hadn't seen a Starbucks in months, but there it was, tucked into a corner of a fancy shopping mall in the Saudi capital. After all those bitter little cups of sludgy Arabic coffee, here at last was an improbable snippet of home — caffeinated, comforting, American.

I wandered into the shop, filling my lungs with the rich wafts of coffee. The man behind the counter gave me a bemused look; his eyes flickered. I asked for a latte. He shrugged, the milk steamer whined, and he handed over the brimming paper cup. I turned my back on his uneasy face.

Crossing the cafe, I felt the hard stares of Saudi men. A few of them stopped talking as I walked by and watched me pass. Them, too, I ignored. Finally, coffee in hand, I sank into the sumptuous lap of an overstuffed armchair.

"Excuse me," hissed the voice in my ear. "You can't sit here." The man from the counter had appeared at my elbow. He was glaring.

"Excuse me?" I blinked a few times.

"Emmm," he drew his discomfort into a long syllable, his brows knitted. "You cannot stay here."

"What? Uh … why?"

Then he said it: "Men only."

He didn't tell me what I would learn later: Starbucks had another, unmarked door around back that led to a smaller espresso bar, and a handful of tables smothered by curtains. That was the "family" section. As a woman, that's where I belonged. I had no right to mix with male customers or sit in plain view of passing shoppers. Like the segregated South of a bygone United States, today's Saudi Arabia shunts half the population into separate, inferior and usually invisible spaces.

At that moment, there was only one thing to do. I stood up. From the depths of armchairs, men in their white robes and red-checked kaffiyehs stared impassively over their mugs. I felt blood rushing to my face. I dropped my eyes, and immediately wished I hadn't. Snatching up the skirts of my robe to keep from stumbling, I walked out of the store and into the clatter of the shopping mall.

Read the rest here.
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Makes me wonder how politically correct or real the movie "The Kingdom" will be.

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