The Re(Write) with James Landrith Writing
Rhea: Mother of the Gods
Saturn’s second largest moon is Rhea, named for the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology. The satellite has albedo features, no atmosphere, and visible ice deposits. This moon has a diameter of 1530 kilometers...
Seeding the Solar System?
An interesting scientific theory regarding the origins of life on Earth involves asteroid and asteroid fragment impacts. The theory is that meteorites containing polyhydroxylated sugar compounds impacted Earth acting as “energy sources for all...
Numbers Game
Dr. Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, on Body Count Redux: During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released body counts of enemy...
Watching You
Clay Reddick of The Daily Texan on Undercover officers at anti-war meetings: APD officers were secretly present at protest plannings: Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas prove that undercover Austin...
Apartheid Thugs In Iraq
APARTHEID ENFORCERS GUARD IRAQ FOR THE U.S. Marc Perelman, Forward, 2/18/04 In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen...
Quote of the Day
Julian Sanchez on Stan Kurtz: Sometimes, Stan, you don't get "refuted" because your opponents don't have arguments. But sometimes you don't get refuted because clowns are to laugh at, not argue with. Classic.
Kreutz Sun-grazers
On June 1 and 2, 1998, two comets entered and burned up in Sol’s atmosphere. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection of gas and magnetic energy occurred on June 2, 1998 following the entrance of...